Who Was Alive

Mikhail Bulgakov

Russian author

Born 3 May 1891 (Julian calendar) · died 10 March 1940, aged 48

Who was alive at the same time as Mikhail Bulgakov?

  1. Leo Tolstoy
  2. Mark Twain
  3. Friedrich Nietzsche
  4. Thomas Edison
  5. Sigmund Freud
  6. Rabindranath Tagore
  7. Marie Curie
  8. Mahatma Gandhi
  9. Vladimir Lenin
  10. Winston Churchill
  11. Joseph Stalin
  12. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  13. Albert Einstein
  14. Pablo Picasso
  15. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  16. Charlie Chaplin
  17. Adolf Hitler
  18. Mikhail Bulgakov
  19. Salvador Dalí
  20. Ronald Reagan
  21. John F. Kennedy
  22. Nelson Mandela
  23. Elizabeth II
  24. Martin Luther King Jr.
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Mikhail Bulgakov was born, Adolf Hitler was 2, Albert Einstein was 12, Vladimir Lenin was 21, Mahatma Gandhi was 21 and Leo Tolstoy was 62.

When Mikhail Bulgakov died, Adolf Hitler was 50, Albert Einstein was 60, Ronald Reagan was 29, Nelson Mandela was 21 and Mahatma Gandhi was 70.

Born during Mikhail Bulgakov’s lifetime: Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Salvador Dalí, Marilyn Monroe and Pope Francis.

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born 6 years after Mikhail Bulgakov died, Vladimir Putin was born 12 years after Mikhail Bulgakov died, Karl Marx died 8 years before Mikhail Bulgakov was born and George W. Bush was born 6 years after Mikhail Bulgakov died.

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