Who Was Alive

John Galsworthy

English novelist and playwright

Born 14 August 1867 · died 31 January 1933, aged 65

Who was alive at the same time as John Galsworthy?

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Charles Darwin
  3. Charles Dickens
  4. Karl Marx
  5. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  6. Leo Tolstoy
  7. Mark Twain
  8. Friedrich Nietzsche
  9. Thomas Edison
  10. Vincent van Gogh
  11. Sigmund Freud
  12. John Galsworthy
  13. Mahatma Gandhi
  14. Vladimir Lenin
  15. Winston Churchill
  16. Joseph Stalin
  17. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  18. Albert Einstein
  19. Pablo Picasso
  20. Charlie Chaplin
  21. Adolf Hitler
  22. Ronald Reagan
  23. Nelson Mandela
  24. Elizabeth II
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When John Galsworthy was born, Karl Marx was 49, Leo Tolstoy was 38, Charles Darwin was 58, Victor Hugo was 65 and Vincent van Gogh was 14.

When John Galsworthy died, Adolf Hitler was 43, Albert Einstein was 53, Ronald Reagan was 21, Nelson Mandela was 14 and Mahatma Gandhi was 63.

Born during John Galsworthy’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Lenin, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin and Pablo Picasso.

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born 13 years after John Galsworthy died, Abraham Lincoln died 2 years before John Galsworthy was born, George W. Bush was born 13 years after John Galsworthy died and Joe Biden was born 9 years after John Galsworthy died.

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  8. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  9. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
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  11. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  12. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  13. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  14. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  15. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
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