Who Was Alive

Isadora Duncana

American dancer and choreographer

Born 26 May 1877 · died 14 September 1927, aged 50

Who was alive at the same time as Isadora Duncana?

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Charles Darwin
  3. Karl Marx
  4. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  5. Leo Tolstoy
  6. Mark Twain
  7. Friedrich Nietzsche
  8. Thomas Edison
  9. Vincent van Gogh
  10. Sigmund Freud
  11. Mahatma Gandhi
  12. Vladimir Lenin
  13. Winston Churchill
  14. Isadora Duncana
  15. Joseph Stalin
  16. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  17. Albert Einstein
  18. Pablo Picasso
  19. Charlie Chaplin
  20. Adolf Hitler
  21. Ronald Reagan
  22. John F. Kennedy
  23. Nelson Mandela
  24. Elizabeth II
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When Isadora Duncana was born, Karl Marx was 59, Vladimir Lenin was 7, Mahatma Gandhi was 7, Leo Tolstoy was 48 and Charles Darwin was 68.

When Isadora Duncana died, Adolf Hitler was 38, Albert Einstein was 48, Ronald Reagan was 16, Nelson Mandela was 9 and Mahatma Gandhi was 57.

Born during Isadora Duncana’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Joseph Stalin, Pablo Picasso, Charlie Chaplin and Elizabeth II.

Not quite contemporaries: Abraham Lincoln died 12 years before Isadora Duncana was born, Charles Dickens died 7 years before Isadora Duncana was born, Martin Luther King Jr. was born 2 years after Isadora Duncana died and Hans Christian Andersen died 2 years before Isadora Duncana was born.

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  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
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