Who Was Alive

Ernest Lawrence

American nuclear physicist

Born 8 August 1901 · died 27 August 1958, aged 57

Who was alive at the same time as Ernest Lawrence?

  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. Ernest Lawrence
  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 Ernest Lawrence was born, Adolf Hitler was 12, Albert Einstein was 22, Vladimir Lenin was 31, Mahatma Gandhi was 31 and Leo Tolstoy was 72.

When Ernest Lawrence died, Donald Trump was 12, Vladimir Putin was 5, Ronald Reagan was 47, Nelson Mandela was 40 and George W. Bush was 12.

Born during Ernest Lawrence’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 3 years after Ernest Lawrence died, Michael Jackson was born months after Ernest Lawrence died, Vincent van Gogh died 11 years before Ernest Lawrence was born and Friedrich Nietzsche died about a year before Ernest Lawrence 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. Bill Gates born 1955
  28. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  29. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  30. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  31. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  32. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  33. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  34. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  35. Bill Clinton born 1946
  36. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  37. Angela Merkel born 1954
  38. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  39. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  40. François Hollande born 1954
  41. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  42. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  43. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  44. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  45. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  46. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  47. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
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  50. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  51. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
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  54. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  55. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
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  57. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  58. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
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  62. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  63. Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
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  65. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
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  73. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  74. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  75. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  76. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
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  80. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  81. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
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  86. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
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  137. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
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  139. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
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  144. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
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