Who Was Alive

L. L. Zamenhof

Polish-Jewish physician and inventor of Esperanto

Born 15 December 1859 · died 14 April 1917, aged 57

Who was alive at the same time as L. L. Zamenhof?

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Abraham Lincoln
  3. Charles Darwin
  4. Charles Dickens
  5. Karl Marx
  6. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  7. Leo Tolstoy
  8. Mark Twain
  9. Friedrich Nietzsche
  10. Thomas Edison
  11. Vincent van Gogh
  12. Sigmund Freud
  13. L. L. Zamenhof
  14. Marie Curie
  15. Mahatma Gandhi
  16. Vladimir Lenin
  17. Winston Churchill
  18. Joseph Stalin
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  20. Albert Einstein
  21. Pablo Picasso
  22. Charlie Chaplin
  23. Adolf Hitler
  24. Ronald Reagan
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When L. L. Zamenhof was born, Karl Marx was 41, Abraham Lincoln was 50, Leo Tolstoy was 31, Charles Darwin was 50 and Victor Hugo was 57.

When L. L. Zamenhof died, Adolf Hitler was 27, Albert Einstein was 38, Ronald Reagan was 6, Vladimir Lenin was 46 and Mahatma Gandhi was 47.

Born during L. L. Zamenhof’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, Pablo Picasso and Winston Churchill.

Not quite contemporaries: Nelson Mandela was born about a year after L. L. Zamenhof died, Elizabeth II was born 9 years after L. L. Zamenhof died, John F. Kennedy was born months after L. L. Zamenhof died and Martin Luther King Jr. was born 12 years after L. L. Zamenhof died.

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  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
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  4. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
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  6. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  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 Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  17. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  18. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  20. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  21. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  22. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  23. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
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