Who Was Alive
Faustina Kowalska
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Faustina Kowalska

Polish nun

Born 25 August 1905 · died 5 October 1938, aged 33
Also known as Santa Faustina Kowalska, Mary Faustina Kowalska, Saint Faustina

Who was alive at the same time as Faustina Kowalska?

  1. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  2. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  3. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  4. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  5. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  6. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  7. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  8. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  9. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  10. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  11. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  12. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  13. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  14. Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1882 – 1945
  15. Franz Kafka, 1883 – 1924
  16. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  17. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  18. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  19. Faustina Kowalska, 1905 – 1938
  20. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  21. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  22. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  23. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  24. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968

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When Faustina Kowalska was born, Adolf Hitler was 16, Albert Einstein was 26, Vladimir Lenin was 35, Mahatma Gandhi was 35 and Leo Tolstoy was 76.

When Faustina Kowalska died, Adolf Hitler was 49, Albert Einstein was 59, Ronald Reagan was 27, Nelson Mandela was 20 and Mahatma Gandhi was 69.

Born during Faustina Kowalska’s lifetime: Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Marilyn Monroe, Pope Francis and Che Guevara.

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born about 8 years after Faustina Kowalska died, Vladimir Putin was born about 14 years after Faustina Kowalska died, George W. Bush was born about 8 years after Faustina Kowalska died and Joe Biden was born about 4 years after Faustina Kowalska died.

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Where Faustina Kowalska’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,150 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Faustina Kowalska. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1922.

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  4. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  5. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  6. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  7. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  8. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  9. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  10. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  11. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  12. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  13. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  14. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  15. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  16. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  17. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  18. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  19. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  20. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  21. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  22. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  23. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  24. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  25. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  26. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  27. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  28. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  29. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  30. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  31. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  32. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  33. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  34. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  35. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  36. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  37. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  38. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  39. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  40. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  41. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  42. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  43. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  44. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  45. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  46. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  47. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  48. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  49. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  50. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  51. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  52. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  53. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  54. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  55. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  56. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  57. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  58. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  59. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  60. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  61. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  62. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  63. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  64. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  65. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  66. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  67. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  68. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  69. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  70. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  71. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  72. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  73. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  74. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  75. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  76. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  77. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  78. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  79. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  80. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  81. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  82. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  83. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  84. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  85. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  86. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  87. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  88. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  89. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  90. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  91. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  92. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  93. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  94. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  95. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  96. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  97. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  98. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  99. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  100. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  101. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  102. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  103. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  104. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  105. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  106. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  107. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  108. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  109. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  110. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  111. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  112. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  113. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  114. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  115. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  116. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  117. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  118. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  119. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  120. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  121. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  122. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  123. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  124. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  125. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  126. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  127. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  128. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  129. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  130. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  131. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  132. Woody Allen born 1935
  133. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  134. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  135. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  136. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  137. Yasser Arafat 1929 – 2004
  138. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  139. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  140. Judy Garland 1922 – 1969
  141. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  142. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  143. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  144. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  145. Brigitte Bardot 1934 – 2025
  146. Hebe Camargo 1929 – 2012
  147. Umberto Eco 1932 – 2016
  148. Audrey Hepburn 1929 – 1993
  149. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  150. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956