Who Was Alive

Lise Meitner

Austrian-Swedish physicist

Born November 1878 · died 27 October 1968, aged 89

Who was alive at the same time as Lise Meitner?

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Charles Darwin
  3. Karl Marx
  4. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  5. Leo Tolstoy
  6. Friedrich Nietzsche
  7. Vincent van Gogh
  8. Mahatma Gandhi
  9. Vladimir Lenin
  10. Winston Churchill
  11. Lise Meitner
  12. Joseph Stalin
  13. Albert Einstein
  14. Pablo Picasso
  15. Charlie Chaplin
  16. Adolf Hitler
  17. Ronald Reagan
  18. Nelson Mandela
  19. Joe Biden
  20. Donald Trump
  21. George W. Bush
  22. Vladimir Putin
  23. Michael Jackson
  24. Barack Obama
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When Lise Meitner was born, Karl Marx was 60, Vladimir Lenin was 8, Mahatma Gandhi was 9, Leo Tolstoy was 50 and Charles Darwin was 69.

When Lise Meitner died, Barack Obama was 7, Donald Trump was 22, Michael Jackson was 10, Vladimir Putin was 16 and Ronald Reagan was 57.

Born during Lise Meitner’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler, Michael Jackson, Albert Einstein, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan and Nelson Mandela.

Not quite contemporaries: Abraham Lincoln died 13 years before Lise Meitner was born, Charles Dickens died 8 years before Lise Meitner was born, Hans Christian Andersen died 3 years before Lise Meitner was born and Shakira was born 9 years after Lise Meitner died.

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  8. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
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  10. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  11. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  12. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  13. George W. Bush born 1946
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  15. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
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  17. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  18. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  19. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  20. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  21. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
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  23. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
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