Who Was Alive

Karl Jaspers

German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher

Born 23 February 1883 · died 26 February 1969, aged 86

Who was alive at the same time as Karl Jaspers?

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Karl Marx
  3. Leo Tolstoy
  4. Friedrich Nietzsche
  5. Thomas Edison
  6. Vincent van Gogh
  7. Mahatma Gandhi
  8. Vladimir Lenin
  9. Winston Churchill
  10. Joseph Stalin
  11. Albert Einstein
  12. Pablo Picasso
  13. Karl Jaspers
  14. Charlie Chaplin
  15. Adolf Hitler
  16. Ronald Reagan
  17. Nelson Mandela
  18. Elizabeth II
  19. Joe Biden
  20. Donald Trump
  21. George W. Bush
  22. Vladimir Putin
  23. Michael Jackson
  24. Barack Obama
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When Karl Jaspers was born, Albert Einstein was 3, Karl Marx was 64, Vladimir Lenin was 12, Mahatma Gandhi was 13 and Leo Tolstoy was 54.

When Karl Jaspers died, Barack Obama was 7, Donald Trump was 22, Michael Jackson was 10, Vladimir Putin was 16 and Ronald Reagan was 58.

Born during Karl Jaspers’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela and George W. Bush.

Not quite contemporaries: Charles Darwin died about a year before Karl Jaspers was born, Fyodor Dostoyevsky died 2 years before Karl Jaspers was born, Charles Dickens died 13 years before Karl Jaspers was born and Hans Christian Andersen died 8 years before Karl Jaspers was born.

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