Who Was Alive

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Indian spiritual philosopher, mystic, speaker and writer

Born 1893–1897 · died 17 February 1986

Who was alive at the same time as Jiddu Krishnamurti?

  1. Leo Tolstoy
  2. Mark Twain
  3. Friedrich Nietzsche
  4. Thomas Edison
  5. Sigmund Freud
  6. Mahatma Gandhi
  7. Vladimir Lenin
  8. Winston Churchill
  9. Joseph Stalin
  10. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  11. Albert Einstein
  12. Pablo Picasso
  13. Charlie Chaplin
  14. Adolf Hitler
  15. Jiddu Krishnamurti
  16. Ronald Reagan
  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
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When Jiddu Krishnamurti died, Barack Obama was 24, Donald Trump was 39, Michael Jackson was 27, Vladimir Putin was 33 and Ronald Reagan was 75.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Karl Marx died 10 years before Jiddu Krishnamurti was born, Charles Darwin died 11 years before Jiddu Krishnamurti was born, Victor Hugo died 8 years before Jiddu Krishnamurti was born and Vincent van Gogh died 3 years before Jiddu Krishnamurti was born.

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  2. Donald Trump born 1946
  3. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  4. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  5. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  6. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  7. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  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
  18. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  19. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  20. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  21. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  22. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  23. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  24. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  25. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  26. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  27. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  28. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  29. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  30. Bill Gates born 1955
  31. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  32. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  33. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  34. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  35. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  36. Shakira born 1977
  37. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  38. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  39. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  40. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
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  42. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
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  54. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
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  58. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  59. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  60. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  61. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  62. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  63. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  64. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  65. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
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  67. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  68. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
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  71. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
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  73. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  74. Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
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  76. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  77. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  78. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  79. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  80. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  81. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
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  84. Kamala Harris born 1964
  85. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  86. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  87. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  88. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  89. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  90. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  91. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
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  96. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
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  118. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  119. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
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  121. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  122. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  123. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  124. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
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  128. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  129. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  130. Charles III born 1948
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  140. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  141. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
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  144. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
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  146. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
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