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Kurt Lewin
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Kurt Lewin

German psychologist

Born 9 September 1890 · died 12 February 1947, aged 56
Also known as Kurt Zadek Lewin, K. Lewin, Kurt Tsadek Lewin

Who was alive at the same time as Kurt Lewin?

  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. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  8. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  9. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  10. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  11. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  12. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  13. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  14. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  15. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  16. Kurt Lewin, 1890 – 1947
  17. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  18. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  19. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  20. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  21. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968
  22. Joe Biden, born 1942
  23. Donald Trump, born 1946
  24. George W. Bush, born 1946

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When Kurt Lewin was born, Adolf Hitler was 1, Albert Einstein was 11, Vladimir Lenin was 20, Mahatma Gandhi was 20 and Leo Tolstoy was 62.

When Kurt Lewin died, Donald Trump was under a year old, Albert Einstein was 67, Ronald Reagan was 36, Nelson Mandela was 28 and Mahatma Gandhi was 77.

Born during Kurt Lewin’s lifetime: Donald Trump, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr..

Not quite contemporaries: Barack Obama was born about 14 years after Kurt Lewin died, Michael Jackson was born about 11 years after Kurt Lewin died, Vladimir Putin was born about 5 years after Kurt Lewin died and Karl Marx died about 7 years before Kurt Lewin was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,695 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Kurt Lewin. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1919.

  1. Donald Trump born 1946
  2. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  3. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  4. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  5. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  6. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  7. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  8. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  9. George W. Bush born 1946
  10. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  11. Joe Biden born 1942
  12. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  13. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  14. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  15. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  16. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  17. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  18. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  20. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  21. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  22. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  23. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  24. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  25. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  26. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  27. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  28. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  29. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  30. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  31. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  32. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  33. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  34. Bill Clinton born 1946
  35. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  36. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  37. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  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. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  44. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  45. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  46. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  47. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  48. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  49. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  50. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  51. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  52. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  53. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  54. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  55. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  56. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  57. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  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. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  71. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  72. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  73. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  74. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  75. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  76. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  77. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  78. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  79. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  80. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  81. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  82. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  83. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  84. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  85. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  86. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  87. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  88. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  89. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  90. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  91. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  92. Bob Dylan born 1941
  93. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  94. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  95. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  96. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  97. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  98. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  99. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  100. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  101. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  102. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  103. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  104. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  105. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  106. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  107. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  108. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  109. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  110. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  111. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  112. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  113. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  114. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  115. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  116. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  117. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  118. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  119. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  120. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  121. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  122. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  123. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  124. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  125. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  126. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  127. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  128. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  129. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  130. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  131. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  132. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  133. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  134. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  135. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  136. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  137. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  138. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  139. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  140. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  141. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  142. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  143. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  144. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  145. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  146. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  147. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  148. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  149. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  150. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007