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Lavrentiy Beria
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Lavrentiy Beria

Soviet politician

Born 17 March 1899 (Julian calendar) · died 1951–1955
Also known as Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria

Who was alive at the same time as Lavrentiy Beria?

  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. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  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. Lavrentiy Beria, 1899 – c. 1953
  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 Lavrentiy Beria was born, Adolf Hitler was 9, Albert Einstein was 20, Vladimir Lenin was 28, Mahatma Gandhi was 29 and Leo Tolstoy was 70.

Born during Lavrentiy Beria’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 6 years after Lavrentiy Beria died, Michael Jackson was born about 3 years after Lavrentiy Beria died, Victor Hugo died about 14 years before Lavrentiy Beria was born and Vincent van Gogh died about 9 years before Lavrentiy Beria was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,797 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Lavrentiy Beria. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1925.

  1. Donald Trump born 1946
  2. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  3. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  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. 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. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  23. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  24. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  25. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  26. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  27. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  28. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  29. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  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. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  38. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  39. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  40. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  41. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  42. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  43. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  44. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  45. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  46. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  47. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  48. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  49. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  50. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  51. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  52. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  53. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  54. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  55. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  56. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  57. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  58. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  59. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  60. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  61. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  62. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  63. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  64. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  65. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  66. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  67. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  68. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  69. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  70. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  71. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  72. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  73. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  74. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  75. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  76. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  77. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  78. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  79. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  80. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  81. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  82. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  83. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  84. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  85. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  86. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  87. Bob Dylan born 1941
  88. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  89. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  90. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  91. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  92. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  93. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  94. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  95. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  96. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  97. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  98. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  99. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  100. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  101. Charles III born 1948
  102. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  103. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  104. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  105. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  106. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  107. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  108. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  109. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  110. Narendra Modi born 1950
  111. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  112. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  113. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  114. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  115. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  116. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  117. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  118. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  119. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  120. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  121. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  122. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  123. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  124. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  125. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  126. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  127. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  128. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  129. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  130. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  131. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  132. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  133. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  134. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  135. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  136. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  137. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  138. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  139. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  140. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  141. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  142. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  143. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  144. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  145. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  146. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  147. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  148. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  149. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  150. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008