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John Logie Baird
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John Logie Baird

Scottish inventor

Born 13 August 1888 · died 14 June 1946, aged 57

Who was alive at the same time as John Logie Baird?

  1. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  2. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  3. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  4. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  5. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  6. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  7. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  8. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  9. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  10. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  11. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  12. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  13. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  14. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  15. John Logie Baird, 1888 – 1946
  16. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  17. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  18. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  19. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  20. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  21. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  22. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968
  23. Joe Biden, born 1942
  24. Donald Trump, born 1946

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When John Logie Baird was born, Albert Einstein was 9, Vladimir Lenin was 18, Mahatma Gandhi was 18, Leo Tolstoy was 59 and Joseph Stalin was 9.

When John Logie Baird died, Donald Trump was under a year old, Albert Einstein was 67, Ronald Reagan was 35, Nelson Mandela was 27 and Mahatma Gandhi was 76.

Born during John Logie Baird’s lifetime: Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Joe Biden, Charlie Chaplin, Elizabeth II and John F. Kennedy.

Not quite contemporaries: Michael Jackson was born about 12 years after John Logie Baird died, Vladimir Putin was born about 6 years after John Logie Baird died, Karl Marx died about 5 years before John Logie Baird was born and George W. Bush was born months after John Logie Baird died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,626 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as John Logie Baird. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1917.

  1. Donald Trump born 1946
  2. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  3. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  4. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  5. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  6. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  7. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  8. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  9. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  10. Joe Biden born 1942
  11. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  12. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  13. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  14. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  15. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  16. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  17. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  18. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  20. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  21. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  22. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  23. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  24. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  25. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  26. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  27. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  28. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  29. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  30. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  31. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  32. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  33. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  34. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  35. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  36. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  37. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  38. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  39. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  40. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  41. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  42. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  43. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  44. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  45. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  46. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  47. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  48. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  49. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  50. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  51. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  52. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  53. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  54. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  55. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  56. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  57. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  58. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  59. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  60. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  61. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  62. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  63. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  64. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  65. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  66. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  67. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  68. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  69. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  70. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  71. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  72. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  73. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  74. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  75. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  76. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  77. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  78. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  79. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  80. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  81. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  82. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  83. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  84. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  85. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  86. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  87. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  88. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  89. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  90. Bob Dylan born 1941
  91. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  92. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  93. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  94. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  95. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  96. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  97. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  98. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  99. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  100. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  101. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  102. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  103. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  104. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  105. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  106. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  107. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  108. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  109. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  110. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  111. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  112. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  113. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  114. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  115. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  116. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  117. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  118. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  119. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  120. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  121. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  122. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  123. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  124. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  125. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  126. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  127. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  128. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  129. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  130. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  131. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  132. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  133. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  134. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  135. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  136. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  137. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  138. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  139. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  140. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  141. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  142. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  143. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  144. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  145. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  146. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  147. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  148. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  149. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  150. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019