Who Was Alive
Martin Bormann
Unknown, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons

Martin Bormann

German Holocaust perpetrator

Born 1900 · died 2 May 1945, aged 44
Also known as Martin Ludwig Bormann

Who was alive at the same time as Martin Bormann?

  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. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  16. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  17. Martin Bormann, 1900 – 1945
  18. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  19. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  20. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  21. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  22. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  23. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968
  24. Joe Biden, born 1942

Drag across the timeline, or use the arrow keys, to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Dashed lines mark world events. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Martin Bormann was born, Adolf Hitler was 11, Albert Einstein was 21, Vladimir Lenin was 30, Mahatma Gandhi was 30 and Leo Tolstoy was 71.

When Martin Bormann died, Albert Einstein was 66, Ronald Reagan was 34, Nelson Mandela was 26, Mahatma Gandhi was 75 and Joseph Stalin was 66.

Born during Martin Bormann’s lifetime: Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Joe Biden, Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Salvador Dalí and Marilyn Monroe.

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born about a year after Martin Bormann died, Michael Jackson was born about 13 years after Martin Bormann died, Vladimir Putin was born about 7 years after Martin Bormann died and George W. Bush was born about a year after Martin Bormann died.

What happened in Martin Bormann’s lifetime

Where Martin Bormann’s contemporaries were born

Martin Bormann is labelled; the others are the best-known people we track who lived at the same time. Each dot is a birthplace from Wikidata (80 of 81 placed); tap one to open that person.
Birthplaces as a list

Compare Martin Bormann

The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,476 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Martin Bormann. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1923.

  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. Joe Biden born 1942
  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. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  34. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  35. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  36. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  37. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  38. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  39. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  40. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  41. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  42. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  43. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  44. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  45. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  46. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  47. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  48. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  49. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  50. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  51. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  52. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  53. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  54. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  55. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  56. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  57. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  58. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  59. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  60. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  61. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  62. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  63. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  64. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  65. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  66. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  67. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  68. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  69. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  70. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  71. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  72. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  73. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  74. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  75. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  76. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  77. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  78. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  79. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  80. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  81. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  82. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  83. Bob Dylan born 1941
  84. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  85. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  86. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  87. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  88. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  89. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  90. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  91. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  92. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  93. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  94. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  95. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  96. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  97. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  98. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  99. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  100. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  101. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  102. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  103. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  104. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  105. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  106. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  107. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  108. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  109. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  110. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  111. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  112. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  113. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  114. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  115. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  116. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  117. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  118. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  119. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  120. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  121. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  122. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  123. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  124. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  125. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  126. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  127. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  128. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  129. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  130. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  131. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  132. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  133. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  134. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  135. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  136. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  137. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  138. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  139. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  140. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  141. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  142. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  143. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  144. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  145. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  146. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  147. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  148. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  149. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  150. Woody Allen born 1935