Who Was Alive
Lev Vygotsky
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Lev Vygotsky

Soviet psychologist

Born 17 November 1896 · died 10 June 1934, aged 37
Also known as Lev Semyonovich Vigotsky

Who was alive at the same time as Lev Vygotsky?

  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. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  8. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  9. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  10. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  11. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  12. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  13. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  14. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  15. Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1882 – 1945
  16. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  17. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  18. Lev Vygotsky, 1896 – 1934
  19. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  20. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  21. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  22. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  23. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  24. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968

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When Lev Vygotsky was born, Adolf Hitler was 7, Albert Einstein was 17, Vladimir Lenin was 26, Mahatma Gandhi was 27 and Leo Tolstoy was 68.

When Lev Vygotsky died, Adolf Hitler was 45, Albert Einstein was 55, Ronald Reagan was 23, Nelson Mandela was 15 and Mahatma Gandhi was 64.

Born during Lev Vygotsky’s lifetime: Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Salvador Dalí, Marilyn Monroe and Che Guevara.

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born about 12 years after Lev Vygotsky died, Karl Marx died about 13 years before Lev Vygotsky was born, George W. Bush was born about 12 years after Lev Vygotsky died and Charles Darwin died about 14 years before Lev Vygotsky was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,059 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Lev Vygotsky. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1915.

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  4. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  5. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  6. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  7. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  8. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  9. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  10. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  11. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  12. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  13. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  14. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  15. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  16. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  17. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  18. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  19. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  20. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  21. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  22. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  23. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  24. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  25. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  26. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  27. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  28. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  29. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  30. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  31. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  32. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  33. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  34. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  35. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  36. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  37. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  38. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  39. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  40. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  41. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  42. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  43. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  44. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  45. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  46. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  47. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  48. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  49. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  50. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  51. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  52. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  53. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  54. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  55. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  56. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  57. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  58. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  59. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  60. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  61. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  62. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  63. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  64. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  65. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  66. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  67. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  68. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  69. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  70. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  71. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  72. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  73. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  74. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  75. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  76. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  77. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  78. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  79. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  80. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  81. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  82. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  83. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  84. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  85. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  86. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  87. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  88. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  89. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  90. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  91. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  92. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  93. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  94. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  95. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  96. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  97. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  98. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  99. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  100. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  101. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  102. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  103. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  104. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  105. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  106. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  107. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  108. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  109. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  110. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  111. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  112. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  113. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  114. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  115. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  116. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  117. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  118. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  119. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  120. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  121. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  122. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  123. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  124. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  125. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  126. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  127. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  128. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  129. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  130. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  131. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  132. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  133. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  134. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  135. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  136. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  137. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  138. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  139. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  140. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  141. Yasser Arafat 1929 – 2004
  142. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  143. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  144. Judy Garland 1922 – 1969
  145. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  146. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  147. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  148. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  149. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  150. Hebe Camargo 1929 – 2012