Who Was Alive

Enrico Fermi

Italian–American physicist

Born 29 September 1901 · died 28 November 1954, aged 53

Who was alive at the same time as Enrico Fermi?

  1. Leo Tolstoy
  2. Mark Twain
  3. Thomas Edison
  4. Sigmund Freud
  5. Marie Curie
  6. Mahatma Gandhi
  7. Vladimir Lenin
  8. Winston Churchill
  9. Joseph Stalin
  10. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  11. Albert Einstein
  12. Pablo Picasso
  13. Charlie Chaplin
  14. Adolf Hitler
  15. Enrico Fermi
  16. Ronald Reagan
  17. John F. Kennedy
  18. Nelson Mandela
  19. Elizabeth II
  20. Martin Luther King Jr.
  21. Joe Biden
  22. Donald Trump
  23. George W. Bush
  24. Vladimir Putin
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When Enrico Fermi was born, Adolf Hitler was 12, Albert Einstein was 22, Vladimir Lenin was 31, Mahatma Gandhi was 31 and Leo Tolstoy was 73.

When Enrico Fermi died, Donald Trump was 8, Albert Einstein was 75, Vladimir Putin was 2, Ronald Reagan was 43 and Nelson Mandela was 36.

Born during Enrico Fermi’s lifetime: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Elizabeth II and John F. Kennedy.

Not quite contemporaries: Barack Obama was born 7 years after Enrico Fermi died, Michael Jackson was born 4 years after Enrico Fermi died, Vincent van Gogh died 11 years before Enrico Fermi was born and Friedrich Nietzsche died about a year before Enrico Fermi was born.

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  2. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  3. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  4. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  5. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  6. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  7. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  8. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  9. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  10. George W. Bush born 1946
  11. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  12. Joe Biden born 1942
  13. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  14. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  15. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  16. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  17. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  18. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  19. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  21. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  22. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  23. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  24. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  25. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  26. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  27. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  28. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  29. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  30. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  31. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  32. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  33. Bill Clinton born 1946
  34. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  35. Angela Merkel born 1954
  36. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  37. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  38. François Hollande born 1954
  39. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  40. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  41. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  42. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  43. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  44. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  45. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  46. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  47. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  48. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  49. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  50. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  51. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  52. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  53. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  54. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  55. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  56. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  57. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  58. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  59. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  60. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  61. Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  62. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  63. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  64. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  65. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  66. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  67. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  68. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  69. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  70. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  71. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  72. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  73. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  74. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  75. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  76. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  77. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  78. Xi Jinping born 1953
  79. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  80. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  81. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  82. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  83. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  84. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  85. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  86. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  87. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  88. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  89. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  90. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  91. Bob Dylan born 1941
  92. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  93. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  94. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  95. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  96. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  97. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  98. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  99. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  100. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  101. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  102. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  103. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  104. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  105. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  106. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  107. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  108. Charles III born 1948
  109. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  110. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  111. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  112. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  113. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  114. Narendra Modi born 1950
  115. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  116. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  117. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  118. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  119. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  120. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  121. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  122. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  123. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  124. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  125. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  126. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  127. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  128. Tenzin Gyatso born 1935
  129. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  130. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  131. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  132. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  133. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  134. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  135. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  136. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  137. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  138. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  139. Shinzō Abe 1954 – 2022
  140. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  141. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  142. Isaac Asimov 1919–1920 – 1992
  143. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  144. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  145. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  146. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  147. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  148. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  149. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  150. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007

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