Who Was Alive

Pablo Picasso

Spanish painter and sculptor

Born 25 October 1881 · died 8 April 1973, aged 91

Who was alive at the same time as Pablo Picasso?

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Charles Darwin
  3. Karl Marx
  4. Leo Tolstoy
  5. Friedrich Nietzsche
  6. Thomas Edison
  7. Vincent van Gogh
  8. Mahatma Gandhi
  9. Vladimir Lenin
  10. Winston Churchill
  11. Joseph Stalin
  12. Albert Einstein
  13. Pablo Picasso
  14. Charlie Chaplin
  15. Adolf Hitler
  16. Ronald Reagan
  17. Nelson Mandela
  18. Elizabeth II
  19. Joe Biden
  20. Donald Trump
  21. George W. Bush
  22. Vladimir Putin
  23. Michael Jackson
  24. Barack Obama
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When Pablo Picasso was born, Albert Einstein was 2, Karl Marx was 63, Vladimir Lenin was 11, Mahatma Gandhi was 12 and Leo Tolstoy was 53.

When Pablo Picasso died, Barack Obama was 11, Donald Trump was 26, Michael Jackson was 14, Vladimir Putin was 20 and Ronald Reagan was 62.

Born during Pablo Picasso’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela and George W. Bush.

Not quite contemporaries: Fyodor Dostoyevsky died months before Pablo Picasso was born, Charles Dickens died 11 years before Pablo Picasso was born, Hans Christian Andersen died 6 years before Pablo Picasso was born and Shakira was born 4 years after Pablo Picasso died.

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  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. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  20. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  21. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  22. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
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