Who Was Alive

Jean Sibelius

Finnish composer

Born 8 December 1865 · died 20 September 1957, aged 91

Who was alive at the same time as Jean Sibelius?

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Charles Darwin
  3. Karl Marx
  4. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  5. Leo Tolstoy
  6. Friedrich Nietzsche
  7. Thomas Edison
  8. Vincent van Gogh
  9. Jean Sibelius
  10. Mahatma Gandhi
  11. Vladimir Lenin
  12. Winston Churchill
  13. Joseph Stalin
  14. Albert Einstein
  15. Pablo Picasso
  16. Charlie Chaplin
  17. Adolf Hitler
  18. Ronald Reagan
  19. Nelson Mandela
  20. Elizabeth II
  21. Joe Biden
  22. Donald Trump
  23. George W. Bush
  24. Vladimir Putin
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When Jean Sibelius was born, Karl Marx was 47, Leo Tolstoy was 37, Charles Darwin was 56, Victor Hugo was 63 and Vincent van Gogh was 12.

When Jean Sibelius died, Donald Trump was 11, Vladimir Putin was 4, Ronald Reagan was 46, Nelson Mandela was 39 and George W. Bush was 11.

Born during Jean Sibelius’s lifetime: Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Lenin, Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi.

Not quite contemporaries: Barack Obama was born 4 years after Jean Sibelius died, Michael Jackson was born about a year after Jean Sibelius died, Abraham Lincoln died months before Jean Sibelius was born and Jimmy Wales was born 9 years after Jean Sibelius died.

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  6. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  7. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  8. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  9. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  10. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  11. George W. Bush born 1946
  12. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  13. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  14. Joe Biden born 1942
  15. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  16. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  17. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  18. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  19. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  20. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  21. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  22. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  23. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  24. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  25. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  26. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
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  28. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  29. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
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