Who Was Alive

Franz Kafka

Bohemian writer from Prague

Born 3 July 1883 · died 3 June 1924, aged 40

Who was alive at the same time as Franz Kafka?

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Leo Tolstoy
  3. Mark Twain
  4. Friedrich Nietzsche
  5. Thomas Edison
  6. Vincent van Gogh
  7. Sigmund Freud
  8. Rabindranath Tagore
  9. Marie Curie
  10. Mahatma Gandhi
  11. Vladimir Lenin
  12. Winston Churchill
  13. Joseph Stalin
  14. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  15. Albert Einstein
  16. Pablo Picasso
  17. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  18. Franz Kafka
  19. Charlie Chaplin
  20. Adolf Hitler
  21. Salvador Dalí
  22. Ronald Reagan
  23. John F. Kennedy
  24. Nelson Mandela
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When Franz Kafka was born, Albert Einstein was 4, Vladimir Lenin was 13, Mahatma Gandhi was 13, Leo Tolstoy was 54 and Joseph Stalin was 4.

When Franz Kafka died, Adolf Hitler was 35, Albert Einstein was 45, Ronald Reagan was 13, Nelson Mandela was 5 and Mahatma Gandhi was 54.

Born during Franz Kafka’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Charlie Chaplin, John F. Kennedy, Salvador Dalí, Mao Zedong and Charles de Gaulle.

Not quite contemporaries: Karl Marx died months before Franz Kafka was born, Charles Darwin died about a year before Franz Kafka was born, Fyodor Dostoyevsky died 2 years before Franz Kafka was born and Elizabeth II was born 2 years after Franz Kafka died.

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  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. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  10. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  11. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  12. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  13. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  14. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  15. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  16. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  17. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  18. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  19. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  20. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  21. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  22. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  23. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  24. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  25. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  26. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  27. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  28. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  29. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  30. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  31. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  32. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  33. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  34. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  35. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  36. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  37. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  38. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  39. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  40. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  41. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  42. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  43. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  44. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  45. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  46. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  47. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  48. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  49. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  50. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  51. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  52. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  53. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  54. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  55. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  56. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  57. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  58. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  59. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  60. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  61. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  62. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  63. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  64. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  65. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  66. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  67. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  68. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  69. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  70. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  71. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  72. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  73. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  74. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  75. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  76. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  77. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  78. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  79. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  80. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  81. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  82. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  83. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  84. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  85. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  86. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  87. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  88. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  89. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  90. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  91. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  92. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  93. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  94. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  95. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  96. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  97. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  98. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  99. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  100. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  101. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  102. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  103. Isaac Asimov 1919–1920 – 1992
  104. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  105. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  106. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  107. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  108. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  109. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  110. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  111. Kim Il-sung 1912 – 1994
  112. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  113. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  114. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  115. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  116. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  117. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  118. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  119. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  120. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  121. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  122. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  123. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  124. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  125. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  126. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  127. William Butler Yeats 1865 – 1939
  128. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  129. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  130. Judy Garland 1922 – 1969
  131. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  132. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  133. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  134. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  135. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  136. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  137. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  138. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  139. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  140. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  141. John Steinbeck 1902 – 1968
  142. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  143. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  144. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  145. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  146. William Faulkner 1897 – 1962
  147. Sergei Eisenstein 1898 – 1948
  148. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  149. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  150. Édith Piaf 1915 – 1963

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