Who Was Alive
Franz Werfel
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Franz Werfel

Austrian playwright and poet

Born 10 September 1890 · died 26 August 1945, aged 54
Also known as Franz Viktor Werfel

Who was alive at the same time as Franz Werfel?

  1. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  2. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  3. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  4. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  5. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  6. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  7. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  8. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  9. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  10. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  11. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  12. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  13. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  14. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  15. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  16. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  17. Franz Werfel, 1890 – 1945
  18. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  19. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  20. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  21. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  22. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  23. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968
  24. Joe Biden, born 1942

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When Franz Werfel was born, Adolf Hitler was 1, Albert Einstein was 11, Vladimir Lenin was 20, Mahatma Gandhi was 20 and Leo Tolstoy was 62.

When Franz Werfel died, Albert Einstein was 66, Ronald Reagan was 34, Nelson Mandela was 27, Mahatma Gandhi was 75 and Joseph Stalin was 66.

Born during Franz Werfel’s lifetime: Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Joe Biden, Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Salvador Dalí and Marilyn Monroe.

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born about a year after Franz Werfel died, Michael Jackson was born about 13 years after Franz Werfel died, Vladimir Putin was born about 7 years after Franz Werfel died and Karl Marx died about 7 years before Franz Werfel was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,569 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Franz Werfel. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1918.

  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. Joe Biden born 1942
  10. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  11. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  12. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  13. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  14. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  15. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  16. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  17. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  18. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  19. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  20. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  21. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  22. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  23. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  24. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  25. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  26. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  27. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  28. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  29. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  30. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  31. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  32. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  33. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  34. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  35. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  36. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  37. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  38. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  39. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  40. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  41. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  42. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  43. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  44. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  45. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  46. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  47. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  48. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  49. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  50. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  51. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  52. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  53. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  54. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  55. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  56. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  57. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  58. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  59. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  60. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  61. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  62. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  63. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  64. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  65. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  66. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  67. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  68. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  69. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  70. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  71. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  72. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  73. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  74. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  75. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  76. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  77. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  78. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  79. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  80. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  81. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  82. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  83. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  84. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  85. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  86. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  87. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  88. Bob Dylan born 1941
  89. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  90. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  91. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  92. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  93. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  94. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  95. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  96. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  97. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  98. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  99. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  100. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  101. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  102. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  103. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  104. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  105. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  106. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  107. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  108. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  109. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  110. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  111. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  112. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  113. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  114. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  115. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  116. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  117. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  118. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  119. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  120. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  121. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  122. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  123. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  124. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  125. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  126. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  127. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  128. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  129. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  130. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  131. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  132. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  133. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  134. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  135. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  136. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  137. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  138. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  139. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  140. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  141. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  142. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  143. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  144. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  145. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  146. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  147. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  148. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  149. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  150. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972