Who Was Alive
Gertrude Stein
Carl Van Vechten, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Gertrude Stein

American author

Born 3 February 1874 · died 27 July 1946, aged 72
Also known as Gertruda Staĭn, Gertruda Stein

Who was alive at the same time as Gertrude Stein?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  3. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  4. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  5. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  6. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  7. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  8. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  9. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  10. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  11. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  12. Gertrude Stein, 1874 – 1946
  13. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  14. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  15. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  16. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  17. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  18. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  19. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  20. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  21. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  22. Joe Biden, born 1942
  23. Donald Trump, born 1946
  24. George W. Bush, born 1946

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When Gertrude Stein was born, Karl Marx was 55, Vladimir Lenin was 3, Mahatma Gandhi was 4, Leo Tolstoy was 45 and Charles Darwin was 64.

When Gertrude Stein died, Donald Trump was under a year old, Albert Einstein was 67, Ronald Reagan was 35, Nelson Mandela was 28 and Mahatma Gandhi was 76.

Born during Gertrude Stein’s lifetime: Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush, Joseph Stalin and Joe Biden.

Not quite contemporaries: Michael Jackson was born about 12 years after Gertrude Stein died, Vladimir Putin was born about 6 years after Gertrude Stein died, Abraham Lincoln died about 9 years before Gertrude Stein was born and Charles Dickens died about 4 years before Gertrude Stein was born.

What happened in Gertrude Stein’s lifetime

Where Gertrude Stein’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,715 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Gertrude Stein. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1910.

  1. Donald Trump born 1946
  2. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  3. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  4. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  5. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  6. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  7. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  8. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  9. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  10. George W. Bush born 1946
  11. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  12. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  13. Joe Biden born 1942
  14. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  15. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  16. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  17. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  18. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  19. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  20. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  21. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  22. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  23. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  24. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  25. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  26. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  27. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  28. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  29. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  30. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  31. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  32. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  33. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  34. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  35. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  36. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  37. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  38. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  39. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  40. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  41. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  42. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  43. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  44. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  45. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  46. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  47. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  48. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  49. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  50. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  51. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  52. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  53. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  54. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  55. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  56. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  57. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  58. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  59. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  60. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  61. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  62. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  63. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  64. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  65. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  66. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  67. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  68. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  69. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  70. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  71. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  72. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  73. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  74. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  75. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  76. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  77. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  78. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  79. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  80. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  81. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  82. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  83. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  84. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  85. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  86. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  87. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  88. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  89. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  90. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  91. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  92. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  93. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  94. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  95. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  96. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  97. Bob Dylan born 1941
  98. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  99. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  100. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  101. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  102. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  103. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  104. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  105. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  106. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  107. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  108. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  109. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  110. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  111. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  112. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  113. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  114. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  115. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  116. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  117. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  118. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  119. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  120. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  121. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  122. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  123. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  124. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  125. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  126. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  127. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  128. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  129. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  130. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  131. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  132. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  133. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  134. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  135. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  136. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  137. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  138. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  139. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  140. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  141. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  142. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  143. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  144. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  145. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  146. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  147. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  148. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  149. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  150. Anatole France 1844 – 1924