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Ramsay MacDonald
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Ramsay MacDonald

British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Born 12 October 1866 · died 9 November 1937, aged 71
Also known as James Ramsay MacDonald, J. R. M., J. Ramsay McDonald

Who was alive at the same time as Ramsay MacDonald?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  3. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  4. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  5. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  6. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  7. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  8. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  9. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  10. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  11. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  12. Ramsay MacDonald, 1866 – 1937
  13. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  14. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  15. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  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. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  24. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022

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When Ramsay MacDonald was born, Karl Marx was 48, Leo Tolstoy was 38, Charles Darwin was 57, Victor Hugo was 64 and Vincent van Gogh was 13.

When Ramsay MacDonald died, Adolf Hitler was 48, Albert Einstein was 58, Ronald Reagan was 26, Nelson Mandela was 19 and Mahatma Gandhi was 68.

Born during Ramsay MacDonald’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Lenin, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin and Pablo Picasso.

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born about 9 years after Ramsay MacDonald died, Vladimir Putin was born about 15 years after Ramsay MacDonald died, Abraham Lincoln died about a year before Ramsay MacDonald was born and George W. Bush was born about 9 years after Ramsay MacDonald died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,366 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Ramsay MacDonald. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1902.

  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. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  19. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  21. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  22. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  23. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  24. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  25. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  26. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  27. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  28. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  29. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  30. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  31. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  32. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  33. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  34. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  35. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  36. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  37. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  38. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  39. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  40. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  41. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  42. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  43. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  44. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  45. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  46. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  47. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  48. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  49. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  50. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  51. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  52. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  53. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  54. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  55. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  56. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  57. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  58. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  59. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  60. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  61. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  62. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  63. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  64. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  65. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  66. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  67. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  68. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  69. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  70. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  71. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  72. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  73. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  74. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  75. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  76. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  77. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  78. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  79. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  80. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  81. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  82. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  83. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  84. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  85. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  86. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  87. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  88. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  89. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  90. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  91. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  92. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  93. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  94. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  95. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  96. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  97. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  98. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  99. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  100. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  101. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  102. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  103. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  104. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  105. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  106. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  107. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  108. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  109. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  110. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  111. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  112. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  113. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  114. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  115. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  116. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  117. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  118. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  119. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  120. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  121. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  122. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  123. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  124. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  125. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  126. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  127. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  128. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  129. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  130. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  131. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  132. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  133. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  134. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  135. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  136. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  137. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  138. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  139. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  140. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  141. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  142. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  143. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  144. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  145. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  146. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  147. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  148. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  149. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  150. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965