Who Was Alive
Felix Dzerzhinsky
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Felix Dzerzhinsky

Revolutionary

Born 30 August 1877 (Julian calendar) · died 20 July 1926, aged 48
Also known as Loïc pcs, Feliks Dzierzynski, Feliks Dzierżyński

Who was alive at the same time as Felix Dzerzhinsky?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  3. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  4. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  5. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  6. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  7. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  8. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  9. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  10. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  11. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  12. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  13. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  14. Felix Dzerzhinsky, 1877 – 1926
  15. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  16. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  17. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  18. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  19. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  20. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  21. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  22. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  23. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  24. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022

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When Felix Dzerzhinsky was born, Karl Marx was 59, Vladimir Lenin was 7, Mahatma Gandhi was 7, Leo Tolstoy was 49 and Charles Darwin was 68.

When Felix Dzerzhinsky died, Adolf Hitler was 37, Albert Einstein was 47, Ronald Reagan was 15, Nelson Mandela was 8 and Mahatma Gandhi was 56.

Born during Felix Dzerzhinsky’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Joseph Stalin, Pablo Picasso, Charlie Chaplin and Elizabeth II.

Not quite contemporaries: Abraham Lincoln died about 12 years before Felix Dzerzhinsky was born, Charles Dickens died about 7 years before Felix Dzerzhinsky was born, Martin Luther King Jr. was born about 3 years after Felix Dzerzhinsky died and Hans Christian Andersen died about 2 years before Felix Dzerzhinsky was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,870 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Felix Dzerzhinsky. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1902.

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  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. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  10. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  11. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  12. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  13. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  14. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  15. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  16. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  17. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  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. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  26. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  27. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  28. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  29. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  30. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  31. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  32. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  33. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  34. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  35. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  36. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  37. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  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. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  44. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  45. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  46. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  47. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  48. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  49. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  50. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  51. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  52. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  53. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  54. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  55. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  56. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  57. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  58. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  59. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  60. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  61. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  62. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  63. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  64. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  65. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  66. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  67. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  68. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  69. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  70. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  71. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  72. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  73. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  74. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  75. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  76. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  77. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  78. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  79. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  80. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  81. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  82. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  83. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  84. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  85. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  86. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  87. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  88. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  89. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  90. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  91. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  92. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  93. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  94. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  95. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  96. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  97. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  98. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  99. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  100. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  101. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  102. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  103. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  104. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  105. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  106. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  107. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  108. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  109. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  110. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  111. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  112. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  113. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  114. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  115. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  116. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  117. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  118. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  119. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  120. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  121. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  122. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  123. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  124. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  125. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  126. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  127. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  128. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  129. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  130. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  131. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  132. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  133. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  134. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  135. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  136. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  137. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  138. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  139. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  140. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  141. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  142. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  143. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  144. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  145. Judy Garland 1922 – 1969
  146. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  147. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  148. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  149. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  150. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904