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Pancho Villa
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Pancho Villa

Mexican revolutionary

Born 5 June 1878 · died 20 July 1923, aged 45
Also known as Jose Doroteo Arango Arámbula

Who was alive at the same time as Pancho Villa?

  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. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  7. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  8. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  9. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  10. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  11. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  12. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  13. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  14. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  15. Pancho Villa, 1878 – 1923
  16. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  17. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  18. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  19. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  20. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  21. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  22. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  23. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  24. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013

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When Pancho Villa was born, Karl Marx was 60, Vladimir Lenin was 8, Mahatma Gandhi was 8, Leo Tolstoy was 49 and Charles Darwin was 69.

When Pancho Villa died, Adolf Hitler was 34, Albert Einstein was 44, Ronald Reagan was 12, Vladimir Lenin was 53 and Nelson Mandela was 5.

Born during Pancho Villa’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Joseph Stalin, Pablo Picasso, Charlie Chaplin and Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

Not quite contemporaries: Abraham Lincoln died about 13 years before Pancho Villa was born, Elizabeth II was born about 3 years after Pancho Villa died, Charles Dickens died about 8 years before Pancho Villa was born and Martin Luther King Jr. was born about 6 years after Pancho Villa died.

What happened in Pancho Villa’s lifetime

Where Pancho Villa’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,750 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Pancho Villa. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1901.

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  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. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  10. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  11. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  12. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  13. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  14. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  15. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  16. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  17. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  18. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  19. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  21. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  22. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  23. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  24. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  25. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  26. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  27. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  28. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  29. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  30. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  31. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  32. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  33. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  34. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  35. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  36. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  37. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  38. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  39. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  40. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  41. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  42. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  43. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  44. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  45. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  46. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  47. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  48. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  49. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  50. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  51. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  52. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  53. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  54. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  55. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  56. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  57. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  58. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  59. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  60. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  61. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  62. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  63. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  64. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  65. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  66. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  67. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  68. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  69. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  70. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  71. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  72. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  73. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  74. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  75. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  76. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  77. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  78. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  79. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  80. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  81. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  82. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  83. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  84. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  85. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  86. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  87. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  88. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  89. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  90. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  91. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  92. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  93. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  94. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  95. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  96. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  97. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  98. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  99. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  100. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  101. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  102. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  103. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  104. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  105. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  106. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  107. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  108. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  109. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  110. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  111. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  112. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  113. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  114. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  115. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  116. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  117. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  118. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  119. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  120. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  121. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  122. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  123. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  124. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  125. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  126. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  127. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  128. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  129. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  130. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  131. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  132. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  133. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  134. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  135. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  136. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  137. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  138. Judy Garland 1922 – 1969
  139. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  140. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  141. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  142. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  143. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  144. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  145. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  146. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  147. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  148. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  149. John Steinbeck 1902 – 1968
  150. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886