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Joseph Roth
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Joseph Roth

Austrian journalist

Born 2 September 1894 · died 27 May 1939, aged 44
Also known as Moses Joseph Roth

Who was alive at the same time as Joseph Roth?

  1. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  2. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  3. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  4. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  5. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  6. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  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. Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1882 – 1945
  16. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  17. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  18. Joseph Roth, 1894 – 1939
  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

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When Joseph Roth was born, Adolf Hitler was 5, Albert Einstein was 15, Vladimir Lenin was 24, Mahatma Gandhi was 24 and Leo Tolstoy was 65.

When Joseph Roth died, Adolf Hitler was 50, Albert Einstein was 60, Ronald Reagan was 28, Nelson Mandela was 20 and Mahatma Gandhi was 69.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born about 7 years after Joseph Roth died, Vladimir Putin was born about 13 years after Joseph Roth died, Karl Marx died about 11 years before Joseph Roth was born and George W. Bush was born about 7 years after Joseph Roth died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,256 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Joseph Roth. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1917.

  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. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  10. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  11. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  12. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  13. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  14. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  15. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  16. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  17. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  18. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  19. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  20. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  21. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  22. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  23. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  24. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  25. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  26. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  27. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  28. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  29. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  30. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  31. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  32. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  33. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  34. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  35. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  36. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  37. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  38. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  39. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  40. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  41. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  42. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  43. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  44. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  45. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  46. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  47. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  48. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  49. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  50. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  51. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  52. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  53. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  54. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  55. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  56. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  57. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  58. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  59. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  60. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  61. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  62. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  63. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  64. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  65. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  66. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  67. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  68. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  69. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  70. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  71. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  72. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  73. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  74. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  75. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  76. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  77. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  78. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  79. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  80. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  81. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  82. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  83. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  84. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  85. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  86. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  87. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  88. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  89. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  90. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  91. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  92. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  93. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  94. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  95. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  96. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  97. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  98. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  99. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  100. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  101. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  102. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  103. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  104. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  105. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  106. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  107. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  108. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  109. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  110. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  111. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  112. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  113. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  114. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  115. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  116. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  117. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  118. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  119. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  120. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  121. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  122. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  123. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  124. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  125. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  126. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  127. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  128. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  129. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  130. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  131. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  132. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  133. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  134. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  135. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  136. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  137. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  138. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  139. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  140. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  141. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  142. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  143. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  144. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  145. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  146. Woody Allen born 1935
  147. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  148. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  149. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  150. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894