Who Was Alive
Kazimir Malevich
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Kazimir Malevich

Russian artist

Born 11 February 1879 (Julian calendar) · died 15 May 1935, aged 56
Also known as Kazymyr Malevych, Malevich, Kazimierz Malewicz

Who was alive at the same time as Kazimir Malevich?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  3. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  4. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  5. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  6. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  7. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  8. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  9. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  10. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  11. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  12. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  13. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  14. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  15. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  16. Kazimir Malevich, 1879 – 1935
  17. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  18. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  19. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  20. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  21. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  22. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  23. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  24. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022

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When Kazimir Malevich was born, Karl Marx was 60, Vladimir Lenin was 8, Mahatma Gandhi was 9, Leo Tolstoy was 50 and Charles Darwin was 70.

When Kazimir Malevich died, Adolf Hitler was 46, Albert Einstein was 56, Ronald Reagan was 24, Nelson Mandela was 16 and Mahatma Gandhi was 65.

Born during Kazimir Malevich’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Pablo Picasso, Charlie Chaplin, Elizabeth II and John F. Kennedy.

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born about 11 years after Kazimir Malevich died, Abraham Lincoln died about 14 years before Kazimir Malevich was born, George W. Bush was born about 11 years after Kazimir Malevich died and Joe Biden was born about 7 years after Kazimir Malevich died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,204 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Kazimir Malevich. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1907.

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  5. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  6. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  7. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  8. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  9. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  10. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  11. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  12. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  13. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  14. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  15. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  16. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  17. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  18. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  19. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  21. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  22. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  23. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  24. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  25. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  26. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  27. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  28. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  29. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  30. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  31. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  32. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  33. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  34. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  35. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  36. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  37. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  38. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  39. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  40. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  41. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  42. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  43. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  44. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  45. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  46. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  47. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  48. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  49. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  50. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  51. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  52. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  53. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  54. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  55. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  56. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  57. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  58. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  59. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  60. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  61. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  62. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  63. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  64. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  65. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  66. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  67. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  68. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  69. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  70. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  71. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  72. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  73. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  74. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  75. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  76. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  77. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  78. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  79. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  80. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  81. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  82. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  83. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  84. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  85. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  86. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  87. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  88. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  89. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  90. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  91. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  92. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  93. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  94. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  95. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  96. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  97. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  98. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  99. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  100. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  101. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  102. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  103. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  104. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  105. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  106. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  107. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  108. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  109. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  110. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  111. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  112. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  113. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  114. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  115. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  116. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  117. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  118. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  119. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  120. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  121. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  122. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  123. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  124. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  125. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  126. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  127. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  128. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  129. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  130. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  131. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  132. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  133. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  134. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  135. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  136. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  137. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  138. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  139. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  140. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  141. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  142. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  143. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  144. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  145. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  146. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  147. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  148. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  149. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  150. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882