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Nikolaas Tinbergen
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Nikolaas Tinbergen

Dutch zoologist and ethologist

Born 15 April 1907 · died 21 December 1988, aged 81
Also known as Niko Tinbergen, Tinbergen, Tinbergen N.

Who was alive at the same time as Nikolaas Tinbergen?

  1. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  2. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  3. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  4. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  5. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  6. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  7. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  8. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  9. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  10. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  11. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  12. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  13. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  14. Nikolaas Tinbergen, 1907 – 1988
  15. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  16. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  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 Nikolaas Tinbergen was born, Adolf Hitler was 17, Albert Einstein was 28, Vladimir Lenin was 36, Mahatma Gandhi was 37 and Leo Tolstoy was 78.

When Nikolaas Tinbergen died, Barack Obama was 27, Donald Trump was 42, Michael Jackson was 30, Vladimir Putin was 36 and Ronald Reagan was 77.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Friedrich Nietzsche died about 7 years before Nikolaas Tinbergen was born, Anton Chekhov died about 3 years before Nikolaas Tinbergen was born, Oscar Wilde died about 7 years before Nikolaas Tinbergen was born and Corbin Bleu was born about a year after Nikolaas Tinbergen died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

4,365 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Nikolaas Tinbergen. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1948.

  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. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  19. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  21. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  22. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  23. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  24. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  25. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  26. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  27. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  28. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  29. Bill Gates born 1955
  30. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  31. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  32. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  33. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  34. Shakira born 1977
  35. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  36. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  37. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  38. Lionel Messi born 1987
  39. Bill Clinton born 1946
  40. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  41. Basshunter born 1984
  42. Angela Merkel born 1954
  43. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  44. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  45. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  46. François Hollande born 1954
  47. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  48. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  49. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  50. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  51. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  52. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  53. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  54. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  55. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  56. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  57. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  58. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  59. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  60. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  61. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  62. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  63. Elon Musk born 1971
  64. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  65. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  66. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  67. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  68. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  69. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  70. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  71. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  72. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  73. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  74. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  75. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  76. Lady Gaga born 1986
  77. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  78. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  79. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  80. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  81. Madonna born 1958
  82. Kamala Harris born 1964
  83. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  84. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  85. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  86. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  87. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  88. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  89. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  90. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  91. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  92. Xi Jinping born 1953
  93. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  94. Naruhito born 1960
  95. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  96. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  97. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  98. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  99. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  100. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  101. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  102. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  103. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  104. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  105. Bob Dylan born 1941
  106. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  107. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  108. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  109. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  110. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  111. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  112. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  113. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  114. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  115. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  116. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  117. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  118. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  119. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  120. Charles III born 1948
  121. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  122. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  123. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  124. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  125. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  126. Kim Jong Un born 1984
  127. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  128. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  129. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  130. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  131. Eminem born 1972
  132. Beyoncé born 1981
  133. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  134. Narendra Modi born 1950
  135. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  136. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  137. Rafael Correa born 1963
  138. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  139. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  140. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  141. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  142. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  143. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  144. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  145. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  146. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  147. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  148. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  149. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  150. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945