Who Was Alive

Rosa Luxemburg

Polish-German Marxist revolutionary

Born 5 March 1871 · died 15 January 1919, aged 47

Who was alive at the same time as Rosa Luxemburg?

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Charles Darwin
  3. Karl Marx
  4. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  5. Leo Tolstoy
  6. Mark Twain
  7. Friedrich Nietzsche
  8. Thomas Edison
  9. Vincent van Gogh
  10. Sigmund Freud
  11. Marie Curie
  12. Mahatma Gandhi
  13. Vladimir Lenin
  14. Rosa Luxemburg
  15. Winston Churchill
  16. Joseph Stalin
  17. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  18. Albert Einstein
  19. Pablo Picasso
  20. Charlie Chaplin
  21. Adolf Hitler
  22. Ronald Reagan
  23. John F. Kennedy
  24. Nelson Mandela
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When Rosa Luxemburg was born, Karl Marx was 52, Vladimir Lenin was under a year old, Mahatma Gandhi was 1, Leo Tolstoy was 42 and Charles Darwin was 62.

When Rosa Luxemburg died, Adolf Hitler was 29, Albert Einstein was 39, Ronald Reagan was 7, Vladimir Lenin was 48 and Nelson Mandela was under a year old.

Born during Rosa Luxemburg’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Joseph Stalin, Pablo Picasso, Winston Churchill and Charlie Chaplin.

Not quite contemporaries: Abraham Lincoln died 6 years before Rosa Luxemburg was born, Elizabeth II was born 7 years after Rosa Luxemburg died, Charles Dickens died about a year before Rosa Luxemburg was born and Martin Luther King Jr. was born 10 years after Rosa Luxemburg died.

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  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 Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  17. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  18. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  20. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  21. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  22. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  23. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  24. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  25. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  26. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  27. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  28. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  29. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  30. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  31. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  32. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  33. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  34. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  35. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  36. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  37. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  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. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
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  46. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
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  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. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  54. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  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. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  61. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  62. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
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