Who Was Alive

Gerhart Hauptmann

German dramatist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912

Born 15 November 1862 · died 6 June 1946, aged 83

Who was alive at the same time as Gerhart Hauptmann?

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Abraham Lincoln
  3. Charles Darwin
  4. Karl Marx
  5. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  6. Leo Tolstoy
  7. Mark Twain
  8. Friedrich Nietzsche
  9. Thomas Edison
  10. Vincent van Gogh
  11. Gerhart Hauptmann
  12. Mahatma Gandhi
  13. Vladimir Lenin
  14. Winston Churchill
  15. Joseph Stalin
  16. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  17. Albert Einstein
  18. Pablo Picasso
  19. Charlie Chaplin
  20. Adolf Hitler
  21. Ronald Reagan
  22. Nelson Mandela
  23. Elizabeth II
  24. Joe Biden
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When Gerhart Hauptmann was born, Karl Marx was 44, Abraham Lincoln was 53, Leo Tolstoy was 34, Charles Darwin was 53 and Victor Hugo was 60.

When Gerhart Hauptmann died, Albert Einstein was 67, Ronald Reagan was 35, Nelson Mandela was 27, Mahatma Gandhi was 76 and Joseph Stalin was 67.

Born during Gerhart Hauptmann’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Lenin, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin and Joe Biden.

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born months after Gerhart Hauptmann died, Michael Jackson was born 12 years after Gerhart Hauptmann died, Vladimir Putin was born 6 years after Gerhart Hauptmann died and George W. Bush was born months after Gerhart Hauptmann died.

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  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. Joe Biden born 1942
  13. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  14. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  15. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  16. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  17. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  18. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  19. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  20. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  21. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  22. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  23. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  24. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  25. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  26. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  27. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  28. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
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  30. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
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