Who Was Alive
Nikolai Ostrovsky
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Nikolai Ostrovsky

Writer

Born 16 September 1904 (Julian calendar) · died 22 December 1936, aged 32
Also known as Nikolai Alexeevich Ostrovsky, Nikolay Alekseyevich Ostrovsky

Who was alive at the same time as Nikolai Ostrovsky?

  1. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  2. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  3. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  4. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  5. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  6. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  7. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  8. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  9. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  10. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  11. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  12. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  13. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  14. Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1882 – 1945
  15. Franz Kafka, 1883 – 1924
  16. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  17. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  18. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  19. Nikolai Ostrovsky, 1904 – 1936
  20. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  21. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  22. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  23. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  24. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968

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When Nikolai Ostrovsky was born, Adolf Hitler was 15, Albert Einstein was 25, Vladimir Lenin was 34, Mahatma Gandhi was 34 and Leo Tolstoy was 76.

When Nikolai Ostrovsky died, Adolf Hitler was 47, Albert Einstein was 57, Ronald Reagan was 25, Nelson Mandela was 18 and Mahatma Gandhi was 67.

Born during Nikolai Ostrovsky’s lifetime: Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Marilyn Monroe, Pope Francis and Che Guevara.

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born about 10 years after Nikolai Ostrovsky died, George W. Bush was born about 10 years after Nikolai Ostrovsky died, Joe Biden was born about 6 years after Nikolai Ostrovsky died and Vincent van Gogh died about 14 years before Nikolai Ostrovsky was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,086 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Nikolai Ostrovsky. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1920.

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  4. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  5. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  6. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  7. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  8. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  9. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  10. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  11. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  12. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  13. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  14. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  15. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  16. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  17. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  18. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  19. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  20. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  21. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  22. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  23. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  24. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  25. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  26. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  27. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  28. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  29. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  30. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  31. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  32. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  33. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  34. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  35. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  36. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  37. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  38. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  39. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  40. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  41. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  42. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  43. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  44. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  45. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  46. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  47. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  48. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  49. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  50. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  51. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  52. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  53. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  54. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  55. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  56. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  57. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  58. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  59. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  60. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  61. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  62. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  63. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  64. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  65. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  66. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  67. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  68. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  69. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  70. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  71. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  72. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  73. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  74. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  75. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  76. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  77. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  78. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  79. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  80. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  81. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  82. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  83. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  84. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  85. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  86. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  87. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  88. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  89. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  90. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  91. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  92. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  93. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  94. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  95. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  96. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  97. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  98. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  99. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  100. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  101. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  102. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  103. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  104. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  105. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  106. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  107. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  108. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  109. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  110. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  111. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  112. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  113. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  114. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  115. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  116. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  117. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  118. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  119. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  120. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  121. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  122. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  123. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  124. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  125. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  126. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  127. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  128. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  129. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  130. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  131. Woody Allen born 1935
  132. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  133. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  134. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  135. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  136. Yasser Arafat 1929 – 2004
  137. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  138. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  139. Judy Garland 1922 – 1969
  140. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  141. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  142. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  143. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  144. Brigitte Bardot 1934 – 2025
  145. Hebe Camargo 1929 – 2012
  146. Umberto Eco 1932 – 2016
  147. Audrey Hepburn 1929 – 1993
  148. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  149. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  150. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976