Who Was Alive

Jackson Pollock

American painter

Born 28 January 1912 · died 11 August 1956, aged 44

Who was alive at the same time as Jackson Pollock?

  1. Thomas Edison
  2. Sigmund Freud
  3. Rabindranath Tagore
  4. Marie Curie
  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. Salvador Dalí
  15. Ronald Reagan
  16. Jackson Pollock
  17. John F. Kennedy
  18. Nelson Mandela
  19. Elizabeth II
  20. Martin Luther King Jr.
  21. Joe Biden
  22. Donald Trump
  23. George W. Bush
  24. Vladimir Putin
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When Jackson Pollock was born, Adolf Hitler was 22, Albert Einstein was 32, Ronald Reagan was under a year old, Vladimir Lenin was 41 and Mahatma Gandhi was 42.

When Jackson Pollock died, Donald Trump was 10, Vladimir Putin was 3, Ronald Reagan was 45, Nelson Mandela was 38 and George W. Bush was 10.

Born during Jackson Pollock’s lifetime: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr..

Not quite contemporaries: Barack Obama was born 5 years after Jackson Pollock died, Michael Jackson was born 2 years after Jackson Pollock died, Leo Tolstoy died 2 years before Jackson Pollock was born and Friedrich Nietzsche died 12 years before Jackson Pollock was born.

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  7. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  8. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  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. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
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  17. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
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  19. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  20. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  21. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
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  23. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
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