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Morarji Desai
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Morarji Desai

Politician who served as Prime Minister of India

Born 29 February 1896 · died 10 April 1995, aged 99

Who was alive at the same time as Morarji Desai?

  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. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  7. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  8. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  9. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  10. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  11. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  12. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  13. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  14. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  15. Morarji Desai, 1896 – 1995
  16. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  17. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  18. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  19. Joe Biden, born 1942
  20. Donald Trump, born 1946
  21. George W. Bush, born 1946
  22. Vladimir Putin, born 1952
  23. Michael Jackson, 1958 – 2009
  24. Barack Obama, born 1961

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When Morarji Desai was born, Adolf Hitler was 6, Albert Einstein was 16, Vladimir Lenin was 25, Mahatma Gandhi was 26 and Leo Tolstoy was 67.

When Morarji Desai died, Barack Obama was 33, Donald Trump was 48, Michael Jackson was 36, Vladimir Putin was 42 and Ronald Reagan was 84.

Born during Morarji Desai’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush and Joe Biden.

Not quite contemporaries: Karl Marx died about 13 years before Morarji Desai was born, Charles Darwin died about 14 years before Morarji Desai was born, Victor Hugo died about 11 years before Morarji Desai was born and Vincent van Gogh died about 6 years before Morarji Desai was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

4,618 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Morarji Desai. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1946.

  1. Barack Obama born 1961
  2. Donald Trump born 1946
  3. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  4. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  5. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  6. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  7. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  8. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  9. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  10. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  11. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  12. George W. Bush born 1946
  13. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  14. Joe Biden born 1942
  15. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  16. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  17. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  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. Bill Gates born 1955
  31. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  32. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  33. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  34. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  35. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  36. Shakira born 1977
  37. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  38. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  39. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  40. Lionel Messi born 1987
  41. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  42. Corbin Bleu born 1989
  43. Bill Clinton born 1946
  44. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  45. Basshunter born 1984
  46. Angela Merkel born 1954
  47. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  48. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  49. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  50. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  51. François Hollande born 1954
  52. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  53. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  54. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  55. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  56. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  57. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  58. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  59. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  60. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  61. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  62. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  63. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  64. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  65. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  66. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  67. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  68. Elon Musk born 1971
  69. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  70. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  71. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  72. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  73. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  74. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  75. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  76. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  77. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  78. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  79. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  80. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  81. Lady Gaga born 1986
  82. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  83. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  84. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  85. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  86. Madonna born 1958
  87. Kamala Harris born 1964
  88. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  89. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  90. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  91. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  92. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  93. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  94. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  95. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  96. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  97. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  98. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  99. Xi Jinping born 1953
  100. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  101. Naruhito born 1960
  102. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  103. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  104. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  105. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  106. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  107. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  108. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  109. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  110. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  111. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  112. Bob Dylan born 1941
  113. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  114. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  115. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  116. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  117. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  118. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  119. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  120. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  121. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  122. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  123. Justin Bieber born 1994
  124. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  125. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  126. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  127. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  128. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  129. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  130. Taylor Swift born 1989
  131. Charles III born 1948
  132. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  133. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  134. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  135. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  136. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  137. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  138. Kim Jong Un born 1984
  139. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  140. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  141. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  142. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  143. Eminem born 1972
  144. Beyoncé born 1981
  145. Selena Gomez born 1992
  146. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  147. Narendra Modi born 1950
  148. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  149. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  150. Rafael Correa born 1963