Who Was Alive

Nikola Tesla

Serbian-American engineer and inventor

Born 10 July 1856 · died 7 January 1943, aged 86

Who was alive at the same time as Nikola Tesla?

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Abraham Lincoln
  3. Charles Darwin
  4. Karl Marx
  5. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  6. Leo Tolstoy
  7. Mark Twain
  8. Friedrich Nietzsche
  9. Thomas Edison
  10. Vincent van Gogh
  11. Nikola Tesla
  12. Mahatma Gandhi
  13. Vladimir Lenin
  14. Winston Churchill
  15. Joseph Stalin
  16. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  17. Albert Einstein
  18. Pablo Picasso
  19. Charlie Chaplin
  20. Adolf Hitler
  21. Ronald Reagan
  22. Nelson Mandela
  23. Elizabeth II
  24. Joe Biden
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When Nikola Tesla was born, Karl Marx was 38, Abraham Lincoln was 47, Leo Tolstoy was 27, Charles Darwin was 47 and Victor Hugo was 54.

When Nikola Tesla died, Adolf Hitler was 53, Albert Einstein was 63, Ronald Reagan was 31, Nelson Mandela was 24 and Mahatma Gandhi was 73.

Born during Nikola Tesla’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Lenin, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin and Joe Biden.

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born 3 years after Nikola Tesla died, Vladimir Putin was born 9 years after Nikola Tesla died, George W. Bush was born 3 years after Nikola Tesla died and Bill Gates was born 12 years after Nikola Tesla died.

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All 933 contemporaries we track

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  5. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  6. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  7. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  8. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  9. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  10. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  11. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  12. Joe Biden born 1942
  13. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  14. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  15. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  16. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  17. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  18. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  19. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  20. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  21. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  22. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  23. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  24. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  25. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  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. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  33. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  34. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  35. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  36. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  37. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  38. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  39. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  40. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  41. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  42. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  43. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  44. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  45. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  46. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  47. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  48. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  49. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  50. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  51. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  52. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  53. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  54. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  55. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  56. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  57. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  58. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  59. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  60. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  61. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  62. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  63. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  64. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  65. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  66. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  67. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  68. Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  69. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  70. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  71. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  72. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  73. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  74. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  75. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  76. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  77. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  78. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  79. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  80. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  81. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  82. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  83. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  84. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  85. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  86. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  87. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  88. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  89. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  90. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  91. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  92. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  93. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  94. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  95. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  96. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  97. Bob Dylan born 1941
  98. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  99. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  100. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  101. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  102. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  103. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  104. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  105. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  106. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  107. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  108. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  109. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  110. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  111. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  112. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  113. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  114. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  115. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  116. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  117. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  118. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  119. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  120. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  121. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  122. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  123. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  124. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  125. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  126. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  127. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  128. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  129. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  130. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  131. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  132. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  133. Tenzin Gyatso born 1935
  134. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  135. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  136. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  137. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  138. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  139. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  140. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  141. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  142. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  143. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  144. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  145. Isaac Asimov 1919–1920 – 1992
  146. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  147. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  148. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  149. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  150. Anatole France 1844 – 1924

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