Who Was Alive

Leon Trotsky

Russian Marxist revolutionary

Born 26 October 1879 (Julian calendar) · died 21 August 1940, aged 60

Who was alive at the same time as Leon Trotsky?

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Charles Darwin
  3. Karl Marx
  4. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  5. Leo Tolstoy
  6. Mark Twain
  7. Friedrich Nietzsche
  8. Thomas Edison
  9. Vincent van Gogh
  10. Sigmund Freud
  11. Mahatma Gandhi
  12. Vladimir Lenin
  13. Winston Churchill
  14. Joseph Stalin
  15. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  16. Albert Einstein
  17. Leon Trotsky
  18. Pablo Picasso
  19. Charlie Chaplin
  20. Adolf Hitler
  21. Ronald Reagan
  22. John F. Kennedy
  23. Nelson Mandela
  24. Elizabeth II
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When Leon Trotsky was born, Albert Einstein was under a year old, Karl Marx was 61, Vladimir Lenin was 9, Mahatma Gandhi was 10 and Leo Tolstoy was 51.

When Leon Trotsky died, Adolf Hitler was 51, Albert Einstein was 61, Ronald Reagan was 29, Nelson Mandela was 22 and Mahatma Gandhi was 70.

Born during Leon Trotsky’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Pablo Picasso, Charlie Chaplin, Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr..

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born 6 years after Leon Trotsky died, Vladimir Putin was born 12 years after Leon Trotsky died, Abraham Lincoln died 14 years before Leon Trotsky was born and George W. Bush was born 6 years after Leon Trotsky died.

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  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 Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  17. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  18. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  19. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  21. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  22. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  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 Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  29. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  30. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  31. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  32. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  33. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  34. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  35. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  36. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  37. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  38. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  39. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  40. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  41. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  42. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  43. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  44. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  45. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  46. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  47. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  48. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  49. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  50. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  51. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  52. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  53. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  54. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  55. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  56. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  57. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  58. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  59. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  60. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  61. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  62. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  63. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  64. Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  65. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  66. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  67. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  68. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  69. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  70. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  71. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  72. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  73. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  74. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  75. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  76. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  77. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  78. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  79. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  80. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  81. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  82. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  83. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
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  86. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  87. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  88. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  89. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  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. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  98. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
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  100. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  101. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  102. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  103. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  104. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
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  106. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  107. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  108. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
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  110. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  111. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
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  113. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  114. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  115. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  116. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  117. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  118. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  119. Tenzin Gyatso born 1935
  120. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  121. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  122. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  123. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  124. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  125. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  126. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  127. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  128. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  129. Isaac Asimov 1919–1920 – 1992
  130. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
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  135. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  136. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  137. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  138. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
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  140. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  141. Kim Il-sung 1912 – 1994
  142. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  143. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  144. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  145. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  146. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  147. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  148. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  149. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
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