Who Was Alive
Manfred von Richthofen
C. J. von Dühren, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Manfred von Richthofen

Prussian fighter pilot

Born 2 May 1892 · died 21 April 1918, aged 25
Also known as the Red Baron, Red Baron, Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen

Who was alive at the same time as Manfred von Richthofen?

  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. Anton Chekhov, 1860 – 1904
  7. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  8. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  9. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  10. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  11. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  12. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  13. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  14. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  15. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  16. Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1882 – 1945
  17. Franz Kafka, 1883 – 1924
  18. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  19. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  20. Manfred von Richthofen, 1892 – 1918
  21. Mao Zedong, 1893 – 1976
  22. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  23. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  24. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963

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When Manfred von Richthofen was born, Adolf Hitler was 3, Albert Einstein was 13, Vladimir Lenin was 22, Mahatma Gandhi was 22 and Leo Tolstoy was 63.

When Manfred von Richthofen died, Adolf Hitler was 29, Albert Einstein was 39, Ronald Reagan was 7, Vladimir Lenin was 47 and Mahatma Gandhi was 48.

Born during Manfred von Richthofen’s lifetime: Ronald Reagan, John F. Kennedy, Salvador Dalí, Mao Zedong, Walt Disney, George Orwell, Ernest Hemingway and Albert Camus.

Not quite contemporaries: Karl Marx died about 9 years before Manfred von Richthofen was born, Nelson Mandela was born months after Manfred von Richthofen died, Charles Darwin died about 10 years before Manfred von Richthofen was born and Victor Hugo died about 7 years before Manfred von Richthofen was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,511 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Manfred von Richthofen. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1905.

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  4. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  5. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  6. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  7. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  8. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  9. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  10. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  11. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  12. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  13. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  14. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  15. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  16. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  17. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  18. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  19. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  20. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  21. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  22. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  23. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  24. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  25. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  26. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  27. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  28. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  29. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  30. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  31. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  32. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  33. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  34. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  35. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  36. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  37. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  38. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  39. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  40. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  41. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  42. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  43. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  44. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  45. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  46. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  47. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  48. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  49. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  50. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  51. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  52. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  53. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  54. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  55. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  56. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  57. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  58. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  59. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  60. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  61. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  62. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  63. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  64. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  65. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  66. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  67. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  68. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  69. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  70. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  71. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  72. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  73. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  74. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  75. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  76. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  77. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  78. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  79. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  80. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  81. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  82. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  83. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  84. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  85. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  86. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  87. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  88. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  89. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  90. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  91. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  92. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  93. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  94. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  95. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  96. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  97. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  98. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  99. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  100. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  101. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  102. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  103. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  104. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  105. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  106. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  107. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  108. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  109. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  110. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  111. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  112. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  113. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  114. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  115. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  116. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  117. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  118. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  119. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  120. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  121. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  122. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  123. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  124. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  125. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  126. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  127. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  128. John Steinbeck 1902 – 1968
  129. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  130. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  131. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  132. William Faulkner 1897 – 1962
  133. Sergei Eisenstein 1898 – 1948
  134. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  135. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  136. Édith Piaf 1915 – 1963
  137. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  138. Aldous Huxley 1894 – 1963
  139. Pearl S. Buck 1892 – 1973
  140. Federico García Lorca 1898 – 1936
  141. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  142. Georges Pompidou 1911 – 1974
  143. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  144. Warren G. Harding 1865 – 1923
  145. Boris Pasternak 1890 – 1960
  146. Romain Rolland 1866 – 1944
  147. Joseph Goebbels 1897 – 1945
  148. Werner Heisenberg 1901 – 1976
  149. Samuel Beckett 1906 – 1989
  150. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893