Who Was Alive

John Maynard Keynes

British economist

Born 5 June 1883 · died 21 April 1946, aged 62

Who was alive at the same time as John Maynard Keynes?

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Leo Tolstoy
  3. Mark Twain
  4. Friedrich Nietzsche
  5. Thomas Edison
  6. Vincent van Gogh
  7. Sigmund Freud
  8. Marie Curie
  9. Mahatma Gandhi
  10. Vladimir Lenin
  11. Winston Churchill
  12. Joseph Stalin
  13. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  14. Albert Einstein
  15. Pablo Picasso
  16. John Maynard Keynes
  17. Charlie Chaplin
  18. Adolf Hitler
  19. Ronald Reagan
  20. John F. Kennedy
  21. Nelson Mandela
  22. Elizabeth II
  23. Martin Luther King Jr.
  24. Joe Biden
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When John Maynard Keynes was born, Albert Einstein was 4, Vladimir Lenin was 13, Mahatma Gandhi was 13, Leo Tolstoy was 54 and Joseph Stalin was 4.

When John Maynard Keynes died, Albert Einstein was 67, Ronald Reagan was 35, Nelson Mandela was 27, Mahatma Gandhi was 76 and Joseph Stalin was 67.

Born during John Maynard Keynes’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Joe Biden, Charlie Chaplin, Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr..

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born months after John Maynard Keynes died, Michael Jackson was born 12 years after John Maynard Keynes died, Vladimir Putin was born 6 years after John Maynard Keynes died and Karl Marx died months before John Maynard Keynes was born.

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  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  4. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  5. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  6. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  7. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  8. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  9. Joe Biden born 1942
  10. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  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. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  19. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  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 Delano 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. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  43. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  44. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  45. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  46. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  47. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  48. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  49. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  50. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  51. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  52. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  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. Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  63. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  64. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  65. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
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  67. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  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. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  74. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  75. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  76. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  77. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  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. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  84. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  85. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  86. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
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  88. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  89. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
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  91. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  92. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  93. Pelé 1940 – 2022
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  96. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
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  98. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
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  101. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
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  103. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
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  110. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
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  112. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  113. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
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  118. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  119. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  120. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  121. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  122. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  123. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
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  125. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  126. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  127. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  128. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  129. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  130. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  131. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  132. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  133. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
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  145. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
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  147. Kim Il-sung 1912 – 1994
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