Who Was Alive

Gustav Mahler

Austrian late-Romantic composer

Born 7 July 1860 · died 18 May 1911, aged 50

Who was alive at the same time as Gustav Mahler?

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Abraham Lincoln
  3. Charles Darwin
  4. Charles Dickens
  5. Karl Marx
  6. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  7. Leo Tolstoy
  8. Mark Twain
  9. Friedrich Nietzsche
  10. Thomas Edison
  11. Vincent van Gogh
  12. Sigmund Freud
  13. Gustav Mahler
  14. Marie Curie
  15. Mahatma Gandhi
  16. Vladimir Lenin
  17. Winston Churchill
  18. Joseph Stalin
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  20. Albert Einstein
  21. Pablo Picasso
  22. Charlie Chaplin
  23. Adolf Hitler
  24. Ronald Reagan
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When Gustav Mahler was born, Karl Marx was 42, Abraham Lincoln was 51, Leo Tolstoy was 31, Charles Darwin was 51 and Victor Hugo was 58.

When Gustav Mahler died, Adolf Hitler was 22, Albert Einstein was 32, Ronald Reagan was under a year old, Vladimir Lenin was 41 and Mahatma Gandhi was 41.

Born during Gustav Mahler’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, Pablo Picasso and Winston Churchill.

Not quite contemporaries: Nelson Mandela was born 7 years after Gustav Mahler died, Elizabeth II was born 15 years after Gustav Mahler died, John F. Kennedy was born 6 years after Gustav Mahler died and Edgar Allan Poe died 11 years before Gustav Mahler was born.

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  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. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  8. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  9. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  10. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  11. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  12. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  13. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  14. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  15. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  16. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  17. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  18. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  20. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  21. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  22. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  23. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  24. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  25. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  26. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  27. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  28. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  29. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  30. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  31. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  32. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  33. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  34. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  35. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  36. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  37. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  38. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  39. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  40. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  41. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  42. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  43. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
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  45. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
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  47. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  48. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  49. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  50. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  51. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  52. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  53. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  54. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  55. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  56. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  57. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  58. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  59. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  60. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  61. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  62. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
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  70. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  71. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  72. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  73. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  74. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
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  79. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  80. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  81. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  82. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  83. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
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  85. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  86. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
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  88. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  89. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  90. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  91. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
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  96. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  97. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  98. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  99. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  100. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  101. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  102. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  103. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
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  121. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
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  128. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
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  131. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  132. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  133. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
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  138. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  139. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  140. John Steinbeck 1902 – 1968
  141. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  142. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  143. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  144. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  145. William Faulkner 1897 – 1962
  146. Sergei Eisenstein 1898 – 1948
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