Who Was Alive

Mohammad Ali Jinnah

Politician and the founder of Pakistan

Born 25 December 1876 · died 11 September 1948, aged 71

Who was alive at the same time as Mohammad Ali Jinnah?

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When Mohammad Ali Jinnah was born, Karl Marx was 58, Vladimir Lenin was 6, Mahatma Gandhi was 7, Leo Tolstoy was 48 and Charles Darwin was 67.

When Mohammad Ali Jinnah died, Donald Trump was 2, Albert Einstein was 69, Ronald Reagan was 37, Nelson Mandela was 30 and George W. Bush was 2.

Born during Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s lifetime: Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush, Joseph Stalin and Joe Biden.

Not quite contemporaries: Barack Obama was born 13 years after Mohammad Ali Jinnah died, Michael Jackson was born 10 years after Mohammad Ali Jinnah died, Vladimir Putin was born 4 years after Mohammad Ali Jinnah died and Abraham Lincoln died 11 years before Mohammad Ali Jinnah was born.

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  2. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  3. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  4. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  5. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  6. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  7. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  8. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  9. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  10. George W. Bush born 1946
  11. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  12. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  13. Joe Biden born 1942
  14. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  15. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  16. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  17. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  18. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  19. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  20. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  21. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  22. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  23. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  24. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  25. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  26. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  27. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  28. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  29. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  30. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  31. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  32. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  33. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  34. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  35. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  36. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  37. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  38. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
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  40. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  41. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
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  43. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  44. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
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  48. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
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  50. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
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  55. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  56. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  57. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  58. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  59. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  60. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
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  62. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  63. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
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  118. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
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