Who Was Alive

Georgia O'Keeffe

American modernist artist

Born 15 November 1887 · died 6 March 1986, aged 98

Who was alive at the same time as Georgia O'Keeffe?

  1. Leo Tolstoy
  2. Mark Twain
  3. Friedrich Nietzsche
  4. Thomas Edison
  5. Vincent van Gogh
  6. Mahatma Gandhi
  7. Vladimir Lenin
  8. Winston Churchill
  9. Joseph Stalin
  10. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  11. Albert Einstein
  12. Pablo Picasso
  13. Georgia O'Keeffe
  14. Charlie Chaplin
  15. Adolf Hitler
  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 Georgia O'Keeffe was born, Albert Einstein was 8, Vladimir Lenin was 17, Mahatma Gandhi was 18, Leo Tolstoy was 59 and Joseph Stalin was 8.

When Georgia O'Keeffe died, Barack Obama was 24, Donald Trump was 39, Michael Jackson was 27, Vladimir Putin was 33 and Ronald Reagan was 75.

Born during Georgia O'Keeffe’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela and George W. Bush.

Not quite contemporaries: Karl Marx died 4 years before Georgia O'Keeffe was born, Charles Darwin died 5 years before Georgia O'Keeffe was born, Victor Hugo died 2 years before Georgia O'Keeffe was born and Fyodor Dostoyevsky died 6 years before Georgia O'Keeffe was born.

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  10. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
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  17. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
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