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Ernst Kaltenbrunner
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Ernst Kaltenbrunner

Austrian politician and Holocaust perpetrator who served as President of Interpol

Born 4 October 1903 · died 16 October 1946, aged 43

Who was alive at the same time as Ernst Kaltenbrunner?

  1. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  2. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  3. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  4. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  5. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  6. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  7. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  8. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  9. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  10. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  11. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  12. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  13. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  14. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  15. Ernst Kaltenbrunner, 1903 – 1946
  16. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  17. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  18. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  19. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  20. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  21. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968
  22. Joe Biden, born 1942
  23. Donald Trump, born 1946
  24. George W. Bush, born 1946

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When Ernst Kaltenbrunner was born, Adolf Hitler was 14, Albert Einstein was 24, Vladimir Lenin was 33, Mahatma Gandhi was 34 and Leo Tolstoy was 75.

When Ernst Kaltenbrunner died, Donald Trump was under a year old, Albert Einstein was 67, Ronald Reagan was 35, Nelson Mandela was 28 and Mahatma Gandhi was 77.

Born during Ernst Kaltenbrunner’s lifetime: Donald Trump, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr..

Not quite contemporaries: Barack Obama was born about 15 years after Ernst Kaltenbrunner died, Michael Jackson was born about 12 years after Ernst Kaltenbrunner died, Vladimir Putin was born about 6 years after Ernst Kaltenbrunner died and Vincent van Gogh died about 13 years before Ernst Kaltenbrunner was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,534 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Ernst Kaltenbrunner. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1925.

  1. Donald Trump born 1946
  2. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  3. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  4. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  5. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  6. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  7. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  8. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  9. George W. Bush born 1946
  10. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  11. Joe Biden born 1942
  12. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  13. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  14. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  15. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  16. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  17. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  18. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  19. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  20. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  21. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  22. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  23. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  24. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  25. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  26. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  27. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  28. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  29. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  30. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  31. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  32. Bill Clinton born 1946
  33. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  34. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  35. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  36. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  37. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  38. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  39. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  40. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  41. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  42. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  43. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  44. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  45. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  46. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  47. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  48. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  49. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  50. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  51. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  52. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  53. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  54. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  55. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  56. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  57. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  58. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  59. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  60. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  61. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  62. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  63. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  64. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  65. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  66. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  67. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  68. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  69. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  70. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  71. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  72. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  73. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  74. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  75. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  76. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  77. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  78. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  79. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  80. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  81. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  82. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  83. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  84. Bob Dylan born 1941
  85. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  86. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  87. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  88. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  89. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  90. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  91. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  92. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  93. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  94. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  95. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  96. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  97. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  98. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  99. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  100. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  101. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  102. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  103. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  104. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  105. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  106. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  107. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  108. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  109. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  110. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  111. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  112. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  113. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  114. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  115. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  116. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  117. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  118. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  119. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  120. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  121. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  122. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  123. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  124. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  125. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  126. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  127. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  128. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  129. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  130. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  131. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  132. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  133. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  134. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  135. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  136. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  137. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  138. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  139. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  140. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  141. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  142. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  143. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  144. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  145. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  146. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  147. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  148. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  149. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  150. Woody Allen born 1935