Who Was Alive
Rudolph Valentino
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Rudolph Valentino

Italian actor

Born 6 May 1895 · died 23 August 1926, aged 31
Also known as Rodolph Valentino, Rudy Valentino

Who was alive at the same time as Rudolph Valentino?

  1. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  2. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  3. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  4. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  5. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  6. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  7. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  8. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  9. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  10. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  11. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  12. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  13. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  14. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  15. Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1882 – 1945
  16. Franz Kafka, 1883 – 1924
  17. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  18. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  19. Rudolph Valentino, 1895 – 1926
  20. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  21. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  22. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  23. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  24. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022

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When Rudolph Valentino was born, Adolf Hitler was 6, Albert Einstein was 16, Vladimir Lenin was 25, Mahatma Gandhi was 25 and Leo Tolstoy was 66.

When Rudolph Valentino died, Adolf Hitler was 37, Albert Einstein was 47, Ronald Reagan was 15, Nelson Mandela was 8 and Mahatma Gandhi was 56.

Born during Rudolph Valentino’s lifetime: Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy, Salvador Dalí, Marilyn Monroe, Walt Disney and George Orwell.

Not quite contemporaries: Karl Marx died about 12 years before Rudolph Valentino was born, Charles Darwin died about 13 years before Rudolph Valentino was born, Victor Hugo died about 10 years before Rudolph Valentino was born and Vincent van Gogh died about 5 years before Rudolph Valentino was born.

What happened in Rudolph Valentino’s lifetime

Where Rudolph Valentino’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,759 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Rudolph Valentino. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1911.

  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. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  13. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  14. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  15. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  16. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  17. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  18. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  19. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  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. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  27. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  28. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  29. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  30. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  31. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  32. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  33. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  34. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  35. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  36. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  37. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  38. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  39. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  40. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  41. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  42. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  43. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  44. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  45. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  46. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  47. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  48. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  49. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  50. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  51. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  52. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  53. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  54. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  55. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  56. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  57. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  58. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  59. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  60. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  61. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  62. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  63. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  64. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  65. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  66. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  67. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  68. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  69. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  70. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  71. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  72. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  73. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  74. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  75. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  76. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  77. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  78. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  79. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  80. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  81. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  82. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  83. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  84. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  85. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  86. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  87. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  88. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  89. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  90. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  91. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  92. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  93. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  94. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  95. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  96. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  97. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  98. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  99. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  100. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  101. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  102. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  103. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  104. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  105. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  106. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  107. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  108. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  109. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  110. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  111. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  112. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  113. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  114. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  115. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  116. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  117. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  118. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  119. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  120. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  121. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  122. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  123. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  124. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  125. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  126. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  127. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  128. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  129. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  130. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  131. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  132. Judy Garland 1922 – 1969
  133. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  134. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  135. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  136. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  137. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  138. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  139. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  140. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  141. John Steinbeck 1902 – 1968
  142. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  143. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  144. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  145. William Faulkner 1897 – 1962
  146. Sergei Eisenstein 1898 – 1948
  147. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  148. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  149. Édith Piaf 1915 – 1963
  150. André Gide 1869 – 1951