Who Was Alive
Osamu Dazai
Shigeru Tamura, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Osamu Dazai

Japanese novelist

Born 19 June 1909 · died 13 June 1948, aged 38
Also known as Tsushima Shuji, Shūji Tsushima, Shuji Tsushima

Who was alive at the same time as Osamu Dazai?

  1. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  2. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  3. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  4. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  5. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  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. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  16. Osamu Dazai, 1909 – 1948
  17. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  18. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  19. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  20. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  21. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968
  22. Joe Biden, born 1942
  23. Donald Trump, born 1946
  24. George W. Bush, born 1946

Drag across the timeline, or use the arrow keys, to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Dashed lines mark world events. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Osamu Dazai was born, Adolf Hitler was 20, Albert Einstein was 30, Vladimir Lenin was 39, Mahatma Gandhi was 39 and Leo Tolstoy was 80.

When Osamu Dazai died, Donald Trump was 1, Albert Einstein was 69, Ronald Reagan was 37, Nelson Mandela was 29 and George W. Bush was 1.

Born during Osamu Dazai’s lifetime: Donald Trump, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr..

Not quite contemporaries: Barack Obama was born about 13 years after Osamu Dazai died, Michael Jackson was born about 10 years after Osamu Dazai died, Vladimir Putin was born about 4 years after Osamu Dazai died and Friedrich Nietzsche died about 9 years before Osamu Dazai was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,577 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Osamu Dazai. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1929.

  1. Donald Trump born 1946
  2. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  3. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  4. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  5. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  6. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  7. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  8. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  9. George W. Bush born 1946
  10. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  11. Joe Biden born 1942
  12. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  13. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  14. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  15. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  16. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  17. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  18. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  19. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  20. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  21. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  22. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  23. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  24. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  25. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  26. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  27. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  28. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  29. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  30. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  31. Bill Clinton born 1946
  32. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  33. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  34. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  35. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  36. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  37. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  38. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  39. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  40. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  41. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  42. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  43. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  44. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  45. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  46. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  47. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  48. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  49. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  50. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  51. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  52. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  53. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  54. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  55. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  56. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  57. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  58. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  59. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  60. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  61. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  62. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  63. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  64. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  65. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  66. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  67. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  68. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  69. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  70. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  71. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  72. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  73. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  74. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  75. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  76. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  77. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  78. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  79. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  80. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  81. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  82. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  83. Bob Dylan born 1941
  84. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  85. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  86. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  87. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  88. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  89. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  90. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  91. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  92. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  93. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  94. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  95. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  96. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  97. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  98. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  99. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  100. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  101. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  102. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  103. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  104. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  105. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  106. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  107. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  108. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  109. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  110. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  111. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  112. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  113. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  114. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  115. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  116. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  117. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  118. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  119. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  120. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  121. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  122. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  123. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  124. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  125. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  126. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  127. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  128. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  129. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  130. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  131. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  132. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  133. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  134. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  135. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  136. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  137. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  138. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  139. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  140. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  141. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  142. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  143. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  144. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  145. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  146. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  147. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  148. Woody Allen born 1935
  149. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  150. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940