Who Was Alive

Ludwig Erhard

Chancellor of West Germany

Born 4 February 1897 · died 5 May 1977, aged 80

Who was alive at the same time as Ludwig Erhard?

  1. Leo Tolstoy
  2. Mark Twain
  3. Friedrich Nietzsche
  4. Thomas Edison
  5. Sigmund Freud
  6. Mahatma Gandhi
  7. Vladimir Lenin
  8. Winston Churchill
  9. Joseph Stalin
  10. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  11. Albert Einstein
  12. Pablo Picasso
  13. Charlie Chaplin
  14. Adolf Hitler
  15. Ludwig Erhard
  16. Ronald Reagan
  17. Nelson Mandela
  18. Elizabeth II
  19. Joe Biden
  20. Donald Trump
  21. George W. Bush
  22. Vladimir Putin
  23. Michael Jackson
  24. Barack Obama
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When Ludwig Erhard was born, Adolf Hitler was 7, Albert Einstein was 17, Vladimir Lenin was 26, Mahatma Gandhi was 27 and Leo Tolstoy was 68.

When Ludwig Erhard died, Barack Obama was 15, Donald Trump was 30, Michael Jackson was 18, Vladimir Putin was 24 and Ronald Reagan was 66.

Born during Ludwig Erhard’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush and Joe Biden.

Not quite contemporaries: Karl Marx died 14 years before Ludwig Erhard was born, Charles Darwin died 15 years before Ludwig Erhard was born, Victor Hugo died 12 years before Ludwig Erhard was born and Vincent van Gogh died 7 years before Ludwig Erhard was born.

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  8. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  9. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  10. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  11. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  12. George W. Bush born 1946
  13. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  14. Joe Biden born 1942
  15. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  16. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  17. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
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  19. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
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