Who Was Alive

Erwin Rommel

German field marshal

Born 15 November 1891 · died 14 October 1944, aged 52

Who was alive at the same time as Erwin Rommel?

  1. Leo Tolstoy
  2. Mark Twain
  3. Friedrich Nietzsche
  4. Thomas Edison
  5. Sigmund Freud
  6. Rabindranath Tagore
  7. Marie Curie
  8. Mahatma Gandhi
  9. Vladimir Lenin
  10. Winston Churchill
  11. Joseph Stalin
  12. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  13. Albert Einstein
  14. Pablo Picasso
  15. Charlie Chaplin
  16. Adolf Hitler
  17. Erwin Rommel
  18. Salvador Dalí
  19. Ronald Reagan
  20. John F. Kennedy
  21. Nelson Mandela
  22. Elizabeth II
  23. Martin Luther King Jr.
  24. Joe Biden
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When Erwin Rommel was born, Adolf Hitler was 2, Albert Einstein was 12, Vladimir Lenin was 21, Mahatma Gandhi was 22 and Leo Tolstoy was 63.

When Erwin Rommel died, Adolf Hitler was 55, Albert Einstein was 65, Ronald Reagan was 33, Nelson Mandela was 26 and Mahatma Gandhi was 75.

Born during Erwin Rommel’s lifetime: Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Joe Biden, Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Salvador Dalí and Marilyn Monroe.

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born 2 years after Erwin Rommel died, Michael Jackson was born 14 years after Erwin Rommel died, Vladimir Putin was born 8 years after Erwin Rommel died and Karl Marx died 8 years before Erwin Rommel was born.

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