Who Was Alive

Joseph Goebbels

Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister

Born 29 October 1897 · died 1 May 1945, aged 47

Who was alive at the same time as Joseph Goebbels?

  1. Leo Tolstoy
  2. Mark Twain
  3. Friedrich Nietzsche
  4. Thomas Edison
  5. Sigmund Freud
  6. Rabindranath Tagore
  7. Marie Curie
  8. Mahatma Gandhi
  9. Vladimir Lenin
  10. Winston Churchill
  11. Joseph Stalin
  12. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  13. Albert Einstein
  14. Pablo Picasso
  15. Charlie Chaplin
  16. Adolf Hitler
  17. Joseph Goebbels
  18. Salvador Dalí
  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 Joseph Goebbels was born, Adolf Hitler was 8, Albert Einstein was 18, Vladimir Lenin was 27, Mahatma Gandhi was 28 and Leo Tolstoy was 69.

When Joseph Goebbels died, Albert Einstein was 66, Ronald Reagan was 34, Nelson Mandela was 26, Mahatma Gandhi was 75 and Joseph Stalin was 66.

Born during Joseph Goebbels’s lifetime: Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Joe Biden, Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Salvador Dalí and Marilyn Monroe.

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born about a year after Joseph Goebbels died, Michael Jackson was born 13 years after Joseph Goebbels died, Vladimir Putin was born 7 years after Joseph Goebbels died and Karl Marx died 14 years before Joseph Goebbels was born.

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