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Konrad Zuse
Wolfgang Hunscher, Dortmund, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Konrad Zuse

German computer scientist and engineer

Born 22 June 1910 · died 18 December 1995, aged 85
Also known as Zuse

Who was alive at the same time as Konrad Zuse?

  1. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  2. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  3. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  4. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  5. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  6. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  7. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  8. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  9. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  10. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  11. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  12. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  13. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  14. Konrad Zuse, 1910 – 1995
  15. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  16. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  17. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  18. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  19. Joe Biden, born 1942
  20. Donald Trump, born 1946
  21. George W. Bush, born 1946
  22. Vladimir Putin, born 1952
  23. Michael Jackson, 1958 – 2009
  24. Barack Obama, born 1961

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When Konrad Zuse was born, Adolf Hitler was 21, Albert Einstein was 31, Vladimir Lenin was 40, Mahatma Gandhi was 40 and Leo Tolstoy was 81.

When Konrad Zuse died, Barack Obama was 34, Donald Trump was 49, Michael Jackson was 37, Vladimir Putin was 43 and Ronald Reagan was 84.

Born during Konrad Zuse’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush and Joe Biden.

Not quite contemporaries: Friedrich Nietzsche died about 10 years before Konrad Zuse was born, Mark Twain died months before Konrad Zuse was born, Anton Chekhov died about 6 years before Konrad Zuse was born and Oscar Wilde died about 10 years before Konrad Zuse was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

4,516 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Konrad Zuse. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1953.

  1. Barack Obama born 1961
  2. Donald Trump born 1946
  3. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  4. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  5. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  6. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  7. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  8. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  9. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  10. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  11. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  12. George W. Bush born 1946
  13. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  14. Joe Biden born 1942
  15. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  16. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  17. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  18. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  19. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  21. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  22. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  23. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  24. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  25. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  26. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  27. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  28. Bill Gates born 1955
  29. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  30. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  31. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  32. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  33. Shakira born 1977
  34. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  35. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  36. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  37. Lionel Messi born 1987
  38. Corbin Bleu born 1989
  39. Bill Clinton born 1946
  40. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  41. Basshunter born 1984
  42. Angela Merkel born 1954
  43. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  44. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  45. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  46. François Hollande born 1954
  47. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  48. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  49. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  50. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  51. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  52. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  53. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  54. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  55. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  56. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  57. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  58. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  59. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  60. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  61. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  62. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  63. Elon Musk born 1971
  64. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  65. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  66. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  67. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  68. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  69. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  70. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  71. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  72. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  73. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  74. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  75. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  76. Lady Gaga born 1986
  77. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  78. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  79. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  80. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  81. Madonna born 1958
  82. Kamala Harris born 1964
  83. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  84. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  85. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  86. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  87. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  88. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  89. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  90. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  91. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  92. Xi Jinping born 1953
  93. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  94. Naruhito born 1960
  95. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  96. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  97. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  98. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  99. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  100. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  101. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  102. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  103. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  104. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  105. Bob Dylan born 1941
  106. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  107. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  108. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  109. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  110. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  111. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  112. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  113. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  114. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  115. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  116. Justin Bieber born 1994
  117. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  118. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  119. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  120. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  121. Taylor Swift born 1989
  122. Charles III born 1948
  123. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  124. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  125. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  126. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  127. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  128. Kim Jong Un born 1984
  129. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  130. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  131. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  132. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  133. Eminem born 1972
  134. Beyoncé born 1981
  135. Selena Gomez born 1992
  136. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  137. Narendra Modi born 1950
  138. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  139. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  140. Rafael Correa born 1963
  141. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  142. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  143. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  144. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  145. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  146. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  147. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  148. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  149. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  150. Michael Schumacher born 1969