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Mikhail Kalinin
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Mikhail Kalinin

Soviet politician

Born 7 November 1875 (Julian calendar) · died 3 June 1946, aged 70
Also known as Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin, Mikhail Ivanowich Kalinin, M. I. Kalinin

Who was alive at the same time as Mikhail Kalinin?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  3. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  4. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  5. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  6. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  7. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  8. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  9. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  10. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  11. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  12. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  13. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  14. Mikhail Kalinin, 1875 – 1946
  15. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  16. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  17. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  18. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  19. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  20. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  21. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  22. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  23. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  24. Joe Biden, born 1942

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When Mikhail Kalinin was born, Karl Marx was 57, Vladimir Lenin was 5, Mahatma Gandhi was 6, Leo Tolstoy was 47 and Charles Darwin was 66.

When Mikhail Kalinin died, Albert Einstein was 67, Ronald Reagan was 35, Nelson Mandela was 27, Mahatma Gandhi was 76 and Joseph Stalin was 67.

Born during Mikhail Kalinin’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Joseph Stalin, Joe Biden, Pablo Picasso and Charlie Chaplin.

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born months after Mikhail Kalinin died, Michael Jackson was born about 12 years after Mikhail Kalinin died, Vladimir Putin was born about 6 years after Mikhail Kalinin died and Abraham Lincoln died about 10 years before Mikhail Kalinin was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,691 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Mikhail Kalinin. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1911.

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  5. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  6. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  7. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  8. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  9. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  10. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  11. Joe Biden born 1942
  12. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  13. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  14. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  15. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  16. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  17. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  18. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  19. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  20. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  21. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  22. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  23. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  24. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  25. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  26. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  27. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  28. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  29. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  30. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  31. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  32. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  33. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  34. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  35. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  36. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  37. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  38. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  39. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  40. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  41. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  42. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  43. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  44. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  45. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  46. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  47. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  48. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  49. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  50. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  51. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  52. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  53. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  54. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  55. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  56. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  57. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  58. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  59. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  60. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  61. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  62. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  63. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  64. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  65. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  66. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  67. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  68. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  69. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  70. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  71. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  72. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  73. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  74. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  75. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  76. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  77. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  78. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  79. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  80. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  81. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  82. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  83. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  84. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  85. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  86. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  87. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  88. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  89. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  90. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  91. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  92. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  93. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  94. Bob Dylan born 1941
  95. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  96. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  97. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  98. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  99. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  100. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  101. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  102. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  103. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  104. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  105. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  106. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  107. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  108. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  109. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  110. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  111. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  112. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  113. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  114. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  115. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  116. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  117. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  118. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  119. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  120. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  121. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  122. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  123. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  124. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  125. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  126. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  127. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  128. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  129. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  130. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  131. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  132. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  133. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  134. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  135. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  136. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  137. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  138. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  139. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  140. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  141. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  142. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  143. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  144. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  145. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  146. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  147. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  148. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  149. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  150. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933