Who Was Alive
Michael Collins
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Michael Collins

Irish politician

Born 16 October 1890 · died 22 August 1922, aged 31
Also known as Mick Collin

Who was alive at the same time as Michael Collins?

  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. Michael Collins, 1890 – 1922
  21. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  22. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  23. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  24. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013

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When Michael Collins was born, Adolf Hitler was 1, Albert Einstein was 11, Vladimir Lenin was 20, Mahatma Gandhi was 21 and Leo Tolstoy was 62.

When Michael Collins died, Adolf Hitler was 33, Albert Einstein was 43, Ronald Reagan was 11, Vladimir Lenin was 52 and Nelson Mandela was 4.

Born during Michael Collins’s lifetime: Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, John F. Kennedy, Salvador Dalí, Mao Zedong, Charles de Gaulle, Walt Disney and George Orwell.

Not quite contemporaries: Karl Marx died about 7 years before Michael Collins was born, Charles Darwin died about 8 years before Michael Collins was born, Victor Hugo died about 5 years before Michael Collins was born and Vincent van Gogh died months before Michael Collins was born.

What happened in Michael Collins’s lifetime

Where Michael Collins’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,659 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Michael Collins. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1906.

  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. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  10. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  11. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  12. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  13. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  14. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  15. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  16. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  17. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  18. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  19. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  20. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  21. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  22. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  23. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  24. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  25. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  26. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  27. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  28. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  29. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  30. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  31. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  32. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  33. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  34. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  35. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  36. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  37. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  38. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  39. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  40. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  41. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  42. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  43. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  44. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  45. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  46. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  47. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  48. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  49. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  50. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  51. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  52. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  53. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  54. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  55. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  56. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  57. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  58. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  59. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  60. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  61. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  62. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  63. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  64. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  65. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  66. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  67. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  68. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  69. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  70. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  71. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  72. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  73. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  74. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  75. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  76. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  77. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  78. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  79. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  80. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  81. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  82. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  83. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  84. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  85. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  86. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  87. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  88. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  89. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  90. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  91. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  92. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  93. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  94. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  95. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  96. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  97. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  98. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  99. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  100. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  101. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  102. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  103. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  104. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  105. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  106. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  107. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  108. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  109. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  110. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  111. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  112. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  113. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  114. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  115. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  116. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  117. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  118. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  119. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  120. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  121. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  122. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  123. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  124. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  125. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  126. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  127. Judy Garland 1922 – 1969
  128. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  129. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  130. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  131. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  132. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  133. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  134. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  135. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  136. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  137. John Steinbeck 1902 – 1968
  138. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  139. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  140. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  141. William Faulkner 1897 – 1962
  142. Sergei Eisenstein 1898 – 1948
  143. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  144. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  145. Édith Piaf 1915 – 1963
  146. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  147. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  148. Aldous Huxley 1894 – 1963
  149. Satyajit Ray 1921 – 1992
  150. Pearl S. Buck 1892 – 1973