Who Was Alive

Hirohito

Emperor of Japan from 1926 to 1989

Born 29 April 1901 · died 7 January 1989, aged 87

Who was alive at the same time as Hirohito?

  1. Leo Tolstoy
  2. Mark Twain
  3. Thomas Edison
  4. Sigmund Freud
  5. Mahatma Gandhi
  6. Vladimir Lenin
  7. Winston Churchill
  8. Joseph Stalin
  9. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  10. Albert Einstein
  11. Pablo Picasso
  12. Charlie Chaplin
  13. Adolf Hitler
  14. Hirohito
  15. Ronald Reagan
  16. John F. Kennedy
  17. Nelson Mandela
  18. Elizabeth II
  19. Joe Biden
  20. Donald Trump
  21. George W. Bush
  22. Vladimir Putin
  23. Michael Jackson
  24. Barack Obama
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Hirohito was born, Adolf Hitler was 12, Albert Einstein was 22, Vladimir Lenin was 31, Mahatma Gandhi was 31 and Leo Tolstoy was 72.

When Hirohito died, Barack Obama was 27, Donald Trump was 42, Michael Jackson was 30, Vladimir Putin was 36 and Ronald Reagan was 77.

Born during Hirohito’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush and Joe Biden.

Not quite contemporaries: Vincent van Gogh died 11 years before Hirohito was born, Friedrich Nietzsche died about a year before Hirohito was born, Corbin Bleu was born months after Hirohito died and Oscar Wilde died about a year before Hirohito was born.

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  8. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  9. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  10. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  11. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  12. George W. Bush born 1946
  13. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  14. Joe Biden born 1942
  15. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  16. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  17. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
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  21. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  22. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  23. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  24. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
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