Who Was Alive

Friedrich Hayek

Austrian and British economist

Born 8 May 1899 · died 23 March 1992, aged 92

Who was alive at the same time as Friedrich Hayek?

  1. Leo Tolstoy
  2. Mark Twain
  3. Friedrich Nietzsche
  4. Thomas Edison
  5. Sigmund Freud
  6. Mahatma Gandhi
  7. Vladimir Lenin
  8. Winston Churchill
  9. Joseph Stalin
  10. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  11. Albert Einstein
  12. Pablo Picasso
  13. Charlie Chaplin
  14. Adolf Hitler
  15. Friedrich Hayek
  16. Ronald Reagan
  17. Nelson Mandela
  18. Elizabeth II
  19. Joe Biden
  20. Donald Trump
  21. George W. Bush
  22. Vladimir Putin
  23. Michael Jackson
  24. Barack Obama
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When Friedrich Hayek was born, Adolf Hitler was 10, Albert Einstein was 20, Vladimir Lenin was 29, Mahatma Gandhi was 29 and Leo Tolstoy was 70.

When Friedrich Hayek died, Barack Obama was 30, Donald Trump was 45, Michael Jackson was 33, Vladimir Putin was 39 and Ronald Reagan was 81.

Born during Friedrich Hayek’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush and Joe Biden.

Not quite contemporaries: Victor Hugo died 14 years before Friedrich Hayek was born, Vincent van Gogh died 9 years before Friedrich Hayek was born, Otto von Bismarck died about a year before Friedrich Hayek was born and Louis Pasteur died 4 years before Friedrich Hayek was born.

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  9. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  10. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  11. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  12. George W. Bush born 1946
  13. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
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  15. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
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  17. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
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  19. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
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