Who Was Alive

John von Neumann

Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist

Born 28 December 1903 · died 8 February 1957, aged 53

Who was alive at the same time as John von Neumann?

  1. Leo Tolstoy
  2. Mark Twain
  3. Thomas Edison
  4. Sigmund Freud
  5. Marie Curie
  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. John von Neumann
  16. Ronald Reagan
  17. John F. Kennedy
  18. Nelson Mandela
  19. Elizabeth II
  20. Martin Luther King Jr.
  21. Joe Biden
  22. Donald Trump
  23. George W. Bush
  24. Vladimir Putin
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When John von Neumann was born, Adolf Hitler was 14, Albert Einstein was 24, Vladimir Lenin was 33, Mahatma Gandhi was 34 and Leo Tolstoy was 75.

When John von Neumann died, Donald Trump was 10, Vladimir Putin was 4, Ronald Reagan was 46, Nelson Mandela was 38 and George W. Bush was 10.

Born during John von Neumann’s lifetime: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Elizabeth II and John F. Kennedy.

Not quite contemporaries: Barack Obama was born 4 years after John von Neumann died, Michael Jackson was born about a year after John von Neumann died, Vincent van Gogh died 13 years before John von Neumann was born and Friedrich Nietzsche died 3 years before John von Neumann was born.

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  5. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  6. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  7. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  8. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  9. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  10. George W. Bush born 1946
  11. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  12. Joe Biden born 1942
  13. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  14. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  15. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  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
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  29. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
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  31. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
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  39. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
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