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Ernst Mayr
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Ernst Mayr

German evolutionary biologist

Born 5 July 1904 · died 3 February 2005, aged 100
Also known as Ernst Walter Mayr, E. Mayr, E. W. Mayr

Who was alive at the same time as Ernst Mayr?

  1. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  2. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  3. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  4. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  5. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  6. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  7. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  8. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  9. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  10. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  11. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  12. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  13. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  14. Ernst Mayr, 1904 – 2005
  15. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  16. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  17. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  18. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  19. Joe Biden, born 1942
  20. Donald Trump, born 1946
  21. George W. Bush, born 1946
  22. Vladimir Putin, born 1952
  23. Michael Jackson, 1958 – 2009
  24. Barack Obama, born 1961

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When Ernst Mayr was born, Adolf Hitler was 15, Albert Einstein was 25, Vladimir Lenin was 34, Mahatma Gandhi was 34 and Leo Tolstoy was 75.

When Ernst Mayr died, Barack Obama was 43, Donald Trump was 58, Michael Jackson was 46, Vladimir Putin was 52 and Nelson Mandela was 86.

Born during Ernst Mayr’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush and Joe Biden.

Not quite contemporaries: Vincent van Gogh died about 14 years before Ernst Mayr was born, Friedrich Nietzsche died about 4 years before Ernst Mayr was born, Oscar Wilde died about 4 years before Ernst Mayr was born and Otto von Bismarck died about 6 years before Ernst Mayr was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

4,656 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Ernst Mayr. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1955.

  1. Barack Obama born 1961
  2. Donald Trump born 1946
  3. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  4. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  5. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  6. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  7. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  8. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  9. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  10. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  11. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  12. George W. Bush born 1946
  13. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  14. Joe Biden born 1942
  15. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  16. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  17. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  18. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  19. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  21. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  22. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  23. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  24. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  25. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  26. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  27. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  28. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  29. Bill Gates born 1955
  30. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  31. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  32. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  33. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  34. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  35. Shakira born 1977
  36. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  37. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  38. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  39. Lionel Messi born 1987
  40. Corbin Bleu born 1989
  41. Bill Clinton born 1946
  42. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  43. Basshunter born 1984
  44. Angela Merkel born 1954
  45. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  46. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  47. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  48. François Hollande born 1954
  49. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  50. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  51. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  52. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  53. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  54. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  55. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  56. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  57. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  58. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  59. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  60. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  61. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  62. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  63. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  64. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  65. Elon Musk born 1971
  66. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  67. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  68. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  69. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  70. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  71. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  72. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  73. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  74. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  75. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  76. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  77. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  78. Lady Gaga born 1986
  79. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  80. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  81. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  82. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  83. Madonna born 1958
  84. Kamala Harris born 1964
  85. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  86. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  87. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  88. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  89. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  90. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  91. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  92. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  93. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  94. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  95. Xi Jinping born 1953
  96. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  97. Naruhito born 1960
  98. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  99. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  100. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  101. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  102. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  103. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  104. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  105. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  106. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  107. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  108. Bob Dylan born 1941
  109. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  110. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  111. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  112. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  113. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  114. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  115. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  116. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  117. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  118. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  119. Justin Bieber born 1994
  120. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  121. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  122. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  123. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  124. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  125. Taylor Swift born 1989
  126. Charles III born 1948
  127. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  128. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  129. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  130. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  131. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  132. Kim Jong Un born 1984
  133. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  134. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  135. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  136. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  137. Eminem born 1972
  138. Beyoncé born 1981
  139. Selena Gomez born 1992
  140. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  141. Narendra Modi born 1950
  142. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  143. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  144. Rafael Correa born 1963
  145. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  146. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  147. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  148. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  149. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  150. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954