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Hans Frank
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Hans Frank

German Holocaust perpetrator

Born 23 May 1900 · died 16 October 1946, aged 46

Who was alive at the same time as Hans Frank?

  1. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  2. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  3. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  4. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  5. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  6. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  7. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  8. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  9. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  10. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  11. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  12. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  13. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  14. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  15. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  16. Hans Frank, 1900 – 1946
  17. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  18. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  19. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  20. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  21. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968
  22. Joe Biden, born 1942
  23. Donald Trump, born 1946
  24. George W. Bush, born 1946

Drag across the timeline, or use the arrow keys, to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Dashed lines mark world events. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Hans Frank was born, Adolf Hitler was 11, Albert Einstein was 21, Vladimir Lenin was 30, Mahatma Gandhi was 30 and Leo Tolstoy was 71.

When Hans Frank died, Donald Trump was under a year old, Albert Einstein was 67, Ronald Reagan was 35, Nelson Mandela was 28 and Mahatma Gandhi was 77.

Born during Hans Frank’s lifetime: Donald Trump, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr..

Not quite contemporaries: Barack Obama was born about 15 years after Hans Frank died, Michael Jackson was born about 12 years after Hans Frank died, Vladimir Putin was born about 6 years after Hans Frank died and Vincent van Gogh died about 10 years before Hans Frank was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,558 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Hans Frank. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1923.

  1. Donald Trump born 1946
  2. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  3. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  4. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  5. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  6. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  7. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  8. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  9. George W. Bush born 1946
  10. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  11. Joe Biden born 1942
  12. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  13. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  14. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  15. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  16. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  17. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  18. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  20. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  21. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  22. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  23. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  24. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  25. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  26. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  27. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  28. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  29. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  30. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  31. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  32. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  33. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  34. Bill Clinton born 1946
  35. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  36. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  37. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  38. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  39. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  40. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  41. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  42. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  43. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  44. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  45. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  46. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  47. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  48. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  49. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  50. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  51. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  52. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  53. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  54. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  55. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  56. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  57. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  58. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  59. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  60. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  61. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  62. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  63. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  64. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  65. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  66. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  67. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  68. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  69. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  70. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  71. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  72. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  73. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  74. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  75. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  76. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  77. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  78. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  79. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  80. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  81. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  82. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  83. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  84. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  85. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  86. Bob Dylan born 1941
  87. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  88. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  89. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  90. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  91. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  92. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  93. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  94. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  95. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  96. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  97. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  98. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  99. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  100. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  101. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  102. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  103. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  104. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  105. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  106. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  107. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  108. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  109. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  110. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  111. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  112. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  113. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  114. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  115. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  116. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  117. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  118. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  119. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  120. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  121. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  122. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  123. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  124. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  125. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  126. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  127. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  128. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  129. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  130. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  131. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  132. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  133. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  134. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  135. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  136. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  137. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  138. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  139. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  140. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  141. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  142. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  143. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  144. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  145. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  146. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  147. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  148. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  149. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  150. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931