Who Was Alive
Grigory Zinoviev
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Grigory Zinoviev

Russian revolutionary

Born 11 September 1883 (Julian calendar) · died 25 August 1936, aged 52
Also known as Grigory Yevseyevich Zinovyev, Grigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev

Who was alive at the same time as Grigory Zinoviev?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  3. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  4. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  5. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  6. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  7. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  8. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  9. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  10. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  11. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  12. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  13. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  14. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  15. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  16. Grigory Zinoviev, 1883 – 1936
  17. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  18. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  19. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  20. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  21. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  22. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  23. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  24. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968

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When Grigory Zinoviev was born, Albert Einstein was 4, Vladimir Lenin was 13, Mahatma Gandhi was 13, Leo Tolstoy was 55 and Joseph Stalin was 4.

When Grigory Zinoviev died, Adolf Hitler was 47, Albert Einstein was 57, Ronald Reagan was 25, Nelson Mandela was 18 and Mahatma Gandhi was 66.

Born during Grigory Zinoviev’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Charlie Chaplin, Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Salvador Dalí.

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born about 10 years after Grigory Zinoviev died, Karl Marx died months before Grigory Zinoviev was born, George W. Bush was born about 10 years after Grigory Zinoviev died and Charles Darwin died about a year before Grigory Zinoviev was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,227 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Grigory Zinoviev. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1910.

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  4. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  5. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  6. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  7. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  8. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  9. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  10. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  11. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  12. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  13. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  14. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  15. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  16. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  17. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  18. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  19. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  20. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  21. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  22. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  23. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  24. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  25. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  26. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  27. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  28. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  29. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  30. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  31. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  32. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  33. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  34. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  35. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  36. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  37. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  38. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  39. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  40. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  41. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  42. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  43. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  44. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  45. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  46. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  47. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  48. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  49. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  50. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  51. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  52. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  53. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  54. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  55. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  56. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  57. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  58. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  59. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  60. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  61. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  62. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  63. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  64. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  65. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  66. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  67. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  68. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  69. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  70. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  71. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  72. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  73. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  74. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  75. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  76. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  77. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  78. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  79. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  80. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  81. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  82. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  83. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  84. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  85. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  86. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  87. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  88. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  89. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  90. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  91. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  92. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  93. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  94. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  95. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  96. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  97. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  98. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  99. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  100. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  101. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  102. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  103. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  104. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  105. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  106. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  107. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  108. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  109. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  110. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  111. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  112. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  113. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  114. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  115. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  116. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  117. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  118. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  119. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  120. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  121. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  122. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  123. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  124. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  125. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  126. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  127. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  128. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  129. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  130. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  131. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  132. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  133. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  134. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  135. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  136. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  137. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  138. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  139. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  140. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  141. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  142. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  143. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  144. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  145. Woody Allen born 1935
  146. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  147. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  148. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  149. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  150. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894