Who Was Alive
Robert Capa
Gerda Taro, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Robert Capa

American photographer

Born 22 October 1913 · died 25 May 1954, aged 40
Also known as Andre Friedmann, André Friedmann, Endre Ernö Friedmann

Who was alive at the same time as Robert Capa?

  1. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  2. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  3. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  4. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  5. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  6. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  7. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  8. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  9. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  10. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  11. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  12. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  13. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  14. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  15. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  16. Robert Capa, 1913 – 1954
  17. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  18. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  19. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  20. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968
  21. Joe Biden, born 1942
  22. Donald Trump, born 1946
  23. George W. Bush, born 1946
  24. Vladimir Putin, born 1952

Drag across the timeline, or use the arrow keys, to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Dashed lines mark world events. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Robert Capa was born, Adolf Hitler was 24, Albert Einstein was 34, Ronald Reagan was 2, Vladimir Lenin was 43 and Mahatma Gandhi was 44.

When Robert Capa died, Donald Trump was 7, Albert Einstein was 75, Vladimir Putin was 1, Ronald Reagan was 43 and Nelson Mandela was 35.

Born during Robert Capa’s lifetime: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr..

Not quite contemporaries: Barack Obama was born about 7 years after Robert Capa died, Michael Jackson was born about 4 years after Robert Capa died, Leo Tolstoy died about 3 years before Robert Capa was born and Friedrich Nietzsche died about 13 years before Robert Capa was born.

What happened in Robert Capa’s lifetime

Where Robert Capa’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,814 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Robert Capa. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1934.

  1. Donald Trump born 1946
  2. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  3. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  4. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  5. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  6. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  7. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  8. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  9. George W. Bush born 1946
  10. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  11. Joe Biden born 1942
  12. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  13. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  14. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  15. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  16. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  17. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  18. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  19. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  20. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  21. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  22. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  23. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  24. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  25. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  26. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  27. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  28. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  29. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  30. Bill Clinton born 1946
  31. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  32. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  33. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  34. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  35. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  36. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  37. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  38. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  39. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  40. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  41. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  42. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  43. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  44. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  45. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  46. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  47. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  48. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  49. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  50. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  51. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  52. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  53. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  54. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  55. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  56. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  57. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  58. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  59. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  60. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  61. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  62. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  63. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  64. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  65. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  66. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  67. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  68. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  69. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  70. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  71. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  72. Xi Jinping born 1953
  73. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  74. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  75. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  76. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  77. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  78. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  79. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  80. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  81. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  82. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  83. Bob Dylan born 1941
  84. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  85. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  86. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  87. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  88. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  89. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  90. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  91. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  92. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  93. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  94. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  95. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  96. Charles III born 1948
  97. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  98. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  99. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  100. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  101. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  102. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  103. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  104. Narendra Modi born 1950
  105. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  106. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  107. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  108. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  109. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  110. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  111. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  112. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  113. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  114. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  115. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  116. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  117. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  118. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  119. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  120. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  121. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  122. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  123. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  124. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  125. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  126. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  127. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  128. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  129. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  130. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  131. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  132. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  133. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  134. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  135. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  136. Jackie Chan born 1954
  137. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  138. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  139. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  140. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  141. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  142. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  143. Robin Williams 1951 – 2014
  144. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  145. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  146. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  147. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  148. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  149. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  150. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931