Who Was Alive
Marcus Garvey
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Marcus Garvey

Entrepreneur

Born 17 August 1887 · died 10 June 1940, aged 52
Also known as Maakos Gyaavi, Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr.

Who was alive at the same time as Marcus Garvey?

  1. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  2. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  3. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  4. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  5. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  6. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  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. Marcus Garvey, 1887 – 1940
  17. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  18. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  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 Marcus Garvey was born, Albert Einstein was 8, Vladimir Lenin was 17, Mahatma Gandhi was 17, Leo Tolstoy was 58 and Joseph Stalin was 8.

When Marcus Garvey died, Adolf Hitler was 51, Albert Einstein was 61, Ronald Reagan was 29, Nelson Mandela was 21 and Mahatma Gandhi was 70.

Born during Marcus Garvey’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Charlie Chaplin, Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Salvador Dalí.

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born about 6 years after Marcus Garvey died, Vladimir Putin was born about 12 years after Marcus Garvey died, Karl Marx died about 4 years before Marcus Garvey was born and George W. Bush was born about 6 years after Marcus Garvey died.

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Where Marcus Garvey’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,355 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Marcus Garvey. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1914.

  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. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  10. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  11. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  12. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  13. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  14. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  15. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  16. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  17. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  18. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  19. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  20. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  21. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  22. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  23. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  24. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  25. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  26. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  27. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  28. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  29. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  30. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  31. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  32. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  33. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  34. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  35. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  36. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  37. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  38. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  39. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  40. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  41. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  42. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  43. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  44. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  45. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  46. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  47. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  48. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  49. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  50. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  51. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  52. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  53. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  54. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  55. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  56. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  57. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  58. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  59. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  60. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  61. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  62. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  63. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  64. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  65. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  66. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  67. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  68. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  69. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  70. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  71. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  72. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  73. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  74. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  75. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  76. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  77. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  78. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  79. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  80. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  81. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  82. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  83. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  84. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  85. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  86. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  87. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  88. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  89. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  90. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  91. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  92. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  93. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  94. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  95. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  96. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  97. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  98. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  99. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  100. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  101. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  102. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  103. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  104. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  105. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  106. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  107. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  108. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  109. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  110. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  111. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  112. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  113. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  114. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  115. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  116. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  117. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  118. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  119. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  120. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  121. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  122. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  123. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  124. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  125. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  126. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  127. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  128. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  129. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  130. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  131. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  132. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  133. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  134. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  135. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  136. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  137. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  138. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  139. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  140. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  141. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  142. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  143. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  144. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  145. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  146. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  147. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  148. Woody Allen born 1935
  149. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  150. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893