Who Was Alive

Federico Fellini

Italian filmmaker

Born 20 January 1920 · died 31 October 1993, aged 73

Who was alive at the same time as Federico Fellini?

  1. Thomas Edison
  2. Sigmund Freud
  3. Marie Curie
  4. Mahatma Gandhi
  5. Vladimir Lenin
  6. Winston Churchill
  7. Joseph Stalin
  8. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  9. Albert Einstein
  10. Pablo Picasso
  11. Charlie Chaplin
  12. Adolf Hitler
  13. Ronald Reagan
  14. John F. Kennedy
  15. Nelson Mandela
  16. Federico Fellini
  17. Elizabeth II
  18. Martin Luther King Jr.
  19. Joe Biden
  20. Donald Trump
  21. George W. Bush
  22. Vladimir Putin
  23. Michael Jackson
  24. Barack Obama
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When Federico Fellini was born, Adolf Hitler was 30, Albert Einstein was 40, Ronald Reagan was 8, Vladimir Lenin was 49 and Nelson Mandela was 1.

When Federico Fellini died, Barack Obama was 32, Donald Trump was 47, Michael Jackson was 35, Vladimir Putin was 41 and Ronald Reagan was 82.

Born during Federico Fellini’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Elizabeth II and Martin Luther King Jr..

Not quite contemporaries: Leo Tolstoy died 10 years before Federico Fellini was born, Mark Twain died 10 years before Federico Fellini was born, Theodore Roosevelt died about a year before Federico Fellini was born and Jules Verne died 15 years before Federico Fellini was born.

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