Who Was Alive
George Eastman
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George Eastman

American entrepreneur and inventor

Born 12 July 1854 · died 14 March 1932, aged 77
Also known as g. eastman, geog. eastman, Geo. Eastman

Who was alive at the same time as George Eastman?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  3. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  4. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  5. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  6. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  7. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  8. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  9. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  10. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  11. George Eastman, 1854 – 1932
  12. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  13. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  14. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  15. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  16. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  17. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  18. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  19. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  20. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  21. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  22. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  23. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  24. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022

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When George Eastman was born, Karl Marx was 36, Abraham Lincoln was 45, Leo Tolstoy was 25, Charles Darwin was 45 and Victor Hugo was 52.

When George Eastman died, Adolf Hitler was 42, Albert Einstein was 53, Ronald Reagan was 21, Nelson Mandela was 13 and Mahatma Gandhi was 62.

Born during George Eastman’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Lenin, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin and Pablo Picasso.

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born about 14 years after George Eastman died, George W. Bush was born about 14 years after George Eastman died, Joe Biden was born about 10 years after George Eastman died and Pope Francis was born about 4 years after George Eastman died.

What happened in George Eastman’s lifetime

Where George Eastman’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,224 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as George Eastman. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1893.

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  5. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  6. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  7. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  8. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  9. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  10. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  11. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  12. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  13. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  14. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  15. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  16. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  17. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  18. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  19. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  20. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  21. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  22. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  23. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  24. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  25. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  26. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  27. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  28. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  29. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  30. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  31. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  32. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  33. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  34. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  35. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  36. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  37. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  38. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  39. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  40. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  41. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  42. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  43. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  44. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  45. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  46. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  47. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  48. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  49. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  50. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  51. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  52. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  53. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  54. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  55. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  56. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  57. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  58. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  59. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  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. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  73. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  74. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  75. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  76. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  77. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  78. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  79. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  80. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  81. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  82. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  83. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  84. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  85. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  86. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  87. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  88. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  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. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  97. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  98. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  99. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  100. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  101. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  102. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  103. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  104. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  105. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  106. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  107. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  108. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  109. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  110. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  111. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  112. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  113. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  114. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  115. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  116. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  117. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  118. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  119. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  120. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  121. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  122. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  123. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  124. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  125. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  126. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  127. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  128. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  129. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  130. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  131. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  132. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  133. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  134. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  135. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  136. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  137. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  138. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  139. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  140. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  141. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  142. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  143. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  144. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  145. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  146. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  147. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  148. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  149. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  150. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999