Who Was Alive

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

French painter and sculptor

Born 25 February 1841 · died 3–17 December 1919, aged 78

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When Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born, Karl Marx was 22, Abraham Lincoln was 32, Leo Tolstoy was 12, Charles Darwin was 32 and Victor Hugo was 38.

When Pierre-Auguste Renoir died, Adolf Hitler was 30, Albert Einstein was 40, Ronald Reagan was 8, Vladimir Lenin was 49 and Nelson Mandela was 1.

Born during Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Lenin, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin and Vincent van Gogh.

Not quite contemporaries: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died 9 years before Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born, Ludwig van Beethoven died 14 years before Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born, Elizabeth II was born 7 years after Pierre-Auguste Renoir died and Martin Luther King Jr. was born 10 years after Pierre-Auguste Renoir died.

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  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
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  6. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  7. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  8. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  9. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  10. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  11. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  12. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  13. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  14. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  15. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  16. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  17. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  18. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  19. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  21. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  22. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  23. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  24. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  25. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  26. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  27. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  28. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  29. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  30. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  31. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  32. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
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  38. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
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