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José Raúl Capablanca
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José Raúl Capablanca

Cuban chess player

Born 19 November 1888 · died 8 March 1942, aged 53
Also known as Jose Raul Capablanca, J. R. Capablanca

Who was alive at the same time as José Raúl Capablanca?

  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. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  8. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  9. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  10. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  11. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  12. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  13. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  14. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  15. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  16. José Raúl Capablanca, 1888 – 1942
  17. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  18. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  19. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  20. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  21. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  22. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  23. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  24. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968

Drag across the timeline, or use the arrow keys, to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Dashed lines mark world events. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When José Raúl Capablanca was born, Albert Einstein was 9, Vladimir Lenin was 18, Mahatma Gandhi was 19, Leo Tolstoy was 60 and Joseph Stalin was 9.

When José Raúl Capablanca died, Adolf Hitler was 52, Albert Einstein was 62, Ronald Reagan was 31, Nelson Mandela was 23 and Mahatma Gandhi was 72.

Born during José Raúl Capablanca’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Charlie Chaplin, Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Salvador Dalí.

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born about 4 years after José Raúl Capablanca died, Vladimir Putin was born about 10 years after José Raúl Capablanca died, Karl Marx died about 5 years before José Raúl Capablanca was born and George W. Bush was born about 4 years after José Raúl Capablanca died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,425 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as José Raúl Capablanca. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1915.

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  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. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  10. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  11. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  12. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  13. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  14. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  15. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  16. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  17. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  18. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  19. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  20. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  21. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  22. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  23. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  24. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  25. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  26. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  27. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  28. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  29. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  30. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  31. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  32. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  33. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  34. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  35. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  36. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  37. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  38. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  39. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  40. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  41. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  42. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  43. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  44. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  45. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  46. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  47. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  48. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  49. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  50. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  51. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  52. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  53. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  54. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  55. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  56. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  57. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  58. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  59. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  60. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  61. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  62. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  63. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  64. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  65. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  66. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  67. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  68. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  69. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  70. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  71. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  72. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  73. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  74. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  75. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  76. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  77. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  78. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  79. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  80. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  81. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  82. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  83. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  84. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  85. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  86. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  87. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  88. Bob Dylan born 1941
  89. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  90. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  91. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  92. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  93. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  94. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  95. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  96. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  97. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  98. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  99. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  100. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  101. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  102. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  103. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  104. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  105. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  106. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  107. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  108. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  109. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  110. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  111. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  112. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  113. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  114. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  115. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  116. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  117. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  118. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  119. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  120. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  121. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  122. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  123. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  124. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  125. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  126. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  127. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  128. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  129. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  130. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  131. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  132. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  133. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  134. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  135. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  136. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  137. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  138. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  139. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  140. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  141. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  142. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  143. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  144. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  145. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  146. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  147. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  148. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  149. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  150. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898