Who Was Alive
Feodor Chaliapin
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Feodor Chaliapin

Russian opera singer and actor

Born 1 February 1873 (Julian calendar) · died 12 April 1938, aged 65
Also known as Fyodor Ivanovich Chaliapin, Fiodor Ivanovich Shalyapin, Feodor Shaliapin

Who was alive at the same time as Feodor Chaliapin?

  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. Feodor Chaliapin, 1873 – 1938
  14. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  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 Feodor Chaliapin was born, Karl Marx was 54, Vladimir Lenin was 2, Mahatma Gandhi was 3, Leo Tolstoy was 44 and Charles Darwin was 64.

When Feodor Chaliapin died, Adolf Hitler was 48, Albert Einstein was 59, Ronald Reagan was 27, Nelson Mandela was 19 and Mahatma Gandhi was 68.

Born during Feodor Chaliapin’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Joseph Stalin, Pablo Picasso, Winston Churchill and Charlie Chaplin.

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born about 8 years after Feodor Chaliapin died, Vladimir Putin was born about 14 years after Feodor Chaliapin died, Abraham Lincoln died about 8 years before Feodor Chaliapin was born and George W. Bush was born about 8 years after Feodor Chaliapin died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,386 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Feodor Chaliapin. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1906.

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  5. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  6. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  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. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  25. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  26. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  27. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  28. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  29. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  30. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  31. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  32. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  33. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  34. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  35. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  36. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  37. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  38. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  39. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  40. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  41. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  42. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  43. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  44. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  45. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  46. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  47. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  48. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  49. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  50. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  51. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  52. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  53. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  54. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  55. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  56. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  57. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  58. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  59. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  60. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  61. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  62. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  63. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  64. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  65. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  66. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  67. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  68. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  69. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  70. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  71. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  72. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  73. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  74. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  75. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  76. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  77. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  78. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  79. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  80. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  81. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  82. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  83. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  84. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  85. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  86. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  87. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  88. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  89. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  90. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  91. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  92. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  93. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  94. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  95. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  96. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  97. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  98. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  99. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  100. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  101. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  102. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  103. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  104. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  105. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  106. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  107. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  108. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  109. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  110. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  111. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  112. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  113. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  114. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  115. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  116. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  117. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  118. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  119. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  120. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  121. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  122. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  123. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  124. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  125. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  126. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  127. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  128. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  129. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  130. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  131. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  132. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  133. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  134. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  135. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  136. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  137. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  138. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  139. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  140. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  141. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  142. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  143. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  144. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  145. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  146. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  147. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  148. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  149. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  150. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004