Who Was Alive
Reinhard Heydrich
Heinrich Hoffmann, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons

Reinhard Heydrich

Served as President of Interpol

Born 7 March 1904 · died 4 June 1942, aged 38
Also known as Heydrich, The Hangman, The Butcher of Prague

Who was alive at the same time as Reinhard Heydrich?

  1. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  2. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  3. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  4. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  5. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  6. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  7. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  8. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  9. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  10. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  11. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  12. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  13. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  14. Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1882 – 1945
  15. Franz Kafka, 1883 – 1924
  16. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  17. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  18. Reinhard Heydrich, 1904 – 1942
  19. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  20. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  21. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  22. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  23. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  24. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968

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When Reinhard Heydrich was born, Adolf Hitler was 14, Albert Einstein was 24, Vladimir Lenin was 33, Mahatma Gandhi was 34 and Leo Tolstoy was 75.

When Reinhard Heydrich died, Adolf Hitler was 53, Albert Einstein was 63, Ronald Reagan was 31, Nelson Mandela was 23 and Mahatma Gandhi was 72.

Born during Reinhard Heydrich’s lifetime: Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Salvador Dalí, Marilyn Monroe and Pope Francis.

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born about 4 years after Reinhard Heydrich died, Vladimir Putin was born about 10 years after Reinhard Heydrich died, George W. Bush was born about 4 years after Reinhard Heydrich died and Joe Biden was born months after Reinhard Heydrich died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,317 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Reinhard Heydrich. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1923.

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  4. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  5. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  6. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  7. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  8. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  9. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  10. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  11. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  12. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  13. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  14. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  15. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  16. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  17. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  18. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  19. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  20. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  21. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  22. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  23. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  24. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  25. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  26. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  27. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  28. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  29. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  30. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  31. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  32. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  33. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  34. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  35. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  36. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  37. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  38. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  39. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  40. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  41. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  42. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  43. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  44. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  45. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  46. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  47. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  48. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  49. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  50. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  51. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  52. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  53. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  54. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  55. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  56. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  57. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  58. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  59. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  60. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  61. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  62. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  63. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  64. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  65. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  66. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  67. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  68. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  69. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  70. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  71. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  72. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  73. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  74. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  75. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  76. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  77. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  78. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  79. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  80. Bob Dylan born 1941
  81. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  82. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  83. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  84. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  85. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  86. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  87. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  88. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  89. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  90. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  91. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  92. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  93. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  94. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  95. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  96. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  97. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  98. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  99. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  100. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  101. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  102. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  103. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  104. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  105. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  106. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  107. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  108. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  109. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  110. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  111. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  112. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  113. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  114. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  115. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  116. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  117. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  118. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  119. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  120. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  121. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  122. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  123. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  124. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  125. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  126. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  127. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  128. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  129. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  130. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  131. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  132. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  133. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  134. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  135. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  136. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  137. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  138. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  139. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  140. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  141. Woody Allen born 1935
  142. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  143. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  144. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  145. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  146. Yasser Arafat 1929 – 2004
  147. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  148. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  149. Judy Garland 1922 – 1969
  150. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910