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Pablo Casals
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Pablo Casals

Spanish cellist and conductor

Born 29 December 1876 · died 22 October 1973, aged 96
Also known as Pau Casals

Who was alive at the same time as Pablo Casals?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  3. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  4. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  5. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  6. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  7. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  8. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  9. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  10. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  11. Pablo Casals, 1876 – 1973
  12. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  13. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  14. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  15. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  16. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  17. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  18. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  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 Pablo Casals was born, Karl Marx was 58, Vladimir Lenin was 6, Mahatma Gandhi was 7, Leo Tolstoy was 48 and Charles Darwin was 67.

When Pablo Casals died, Barack Obama was 12, Donald Trump was 27, Michael Jackson was 15, Vladimir Putin was 21 and Ronald Reagan was 62.

Born during Pablo Casals’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan and Nelson Mandela.

Not quite contemporaries: Abraham Lincoln died about 11 years before Pablo Casals was born, Charles Dickens died about 6 years before Pablo Casals was born, Hans Christian Andersen died about a year before Pablo Casals was born and Shakira was born about 4 years after Pablo Casals died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

3,964 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Pablo Casals. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1925.

  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. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  8. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  9. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  10. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  11. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  12. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  13. George W. Bush born 1946
  14. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  15. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  16. Joe Biden born 1942
  17. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  18. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  19. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  20. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  21. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  22. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  23. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  24. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  25. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  26. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  27. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  28. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  29. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  30. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  31. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  32. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  33. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  34. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  35. Bill Gates born 1955
  36. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  37. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  38. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  39. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  40. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  41. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  42. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  43. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  44. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  45. Bill Clinton born 1946
  46. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  47. Angela Merkel born 1954
  48. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  49. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  50. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  51. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  52. François Hollande born 1954
  53. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  54. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  55. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  56. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  57. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  58. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  59. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  60. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  61. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  62. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  63. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  64. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  65. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  66. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  67. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  68. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  69. Elon Musk born 1971
  70. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  71. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  72. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  73. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  74. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  75. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  76. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  77. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  78. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  79. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  80. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  81. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  82. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  83. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  84. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  85. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  86. Madonna born 1958
  87. Kamala Harris born 1964
  88. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  89. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  90. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  91. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  92. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  93. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  94. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  95. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  96. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  97. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  98. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  99. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  100. Xi Jinping born 1953
  101. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  102. Naruhito born 1960
  103. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  104. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  105. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  106. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  107. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  108. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  109. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  110. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  111. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  112. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  113. Bob Dylan born 1941
  114. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  115. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  116. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  117. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  118. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  119. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  120. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  121. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  122. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  123. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  124. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  125. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  126. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  127. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  128. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  129. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  130. Charles III born 1948
  131. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  132. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  133. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  134. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  135. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  136. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  137. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  138. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  139. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  140. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  141. Eminem born 1972
  142. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  143. Narendra Modi born 1950
  144. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  145. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  146. Rafael Correa born 1963
  147. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  148. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  149. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  150. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906