Who Was Alive

Salvatore Quasimodo

Italian writer

Born 20 August 1901 · died 14 June 1968, aged 66

Who was alive at the same time as Salvatore Quasimodo?

  1. Leo Tolstoy
  2. Mark Twain
  3. Thomas Edison
  4. Sigmund Freud
  5. Mahatma Gandhi
  6. Vladimir Lenin
  7. Winston Churchill
  8. Joseph Stalin
  9. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  10. Albert Einstein
  11. Pablo Picasso
  12. Charlie Chaplin
  13. Adolf Hitler
  14. Salvatore Quasimodo
  15. Ronald Reagan
  16. John F. Kennedy
  17. Nelson Mandela
  18. Elizabeth II
  19. Joe Biden
  20. Donald Trump
  21. George W. Bush
  22. Vladimir Putin
  23. Michael Jackson
  24. Barack Obama
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When Salvatore Quasimodo was born, Adolf Hitler was 12, Albert Einstein was 22, Vladimir Lenin was 31, Mahatma Gandhi was 31 and Leo Tolstoy was 72.

When Salvatore Quasimodo died, Barack Obama was 6, Donald Trump was 22, Michael Jackson was 9, Vladimir Putin was 15 and Ronald Reagan was 57.

Born during Salvatore Quasimodo’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush and Joe Biden.

Not quite contemporaries: Vincent van Gogh died 11 years before Salvatore Quasimodo was born, Friedrich Nietzsche died about a year before Salvatore Quasimodo was born, Shakira was born 9 years after Salvatore Quasimodo died and Oscar Wilde died about a year before Salvatore Quasimodo was born.

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  2. Donald Trump born 1946
  3. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  4. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  5. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  6. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  7. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  8. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  9. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  10. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  11. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  12. George W. Bush born 1946
  13. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  14. Joe Biden born 1942
  15. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  16. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  17. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  18. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  19. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  21. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  22. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  23. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  24. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  25. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  26. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  27. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  28. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
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  30. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  31. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  32. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  33. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  34. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  35. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  36. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  37. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  38. Bill Clinton born 1946
  39. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  40. Angela Merkel born 1954
  41. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  42. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  43. François Hollande born 1954
  44. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  45. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
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  53. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
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  55. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  56. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  57. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  58. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
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  60. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
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  62. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  63. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  64. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  65. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  66. Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  67. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
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  69. Hillary Clinton born 1947
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  71. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  72. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  73. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
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  76. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  77. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  78. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  79. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  80. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  81. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  82. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
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  84. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  85. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
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  89. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  90. Noam Chomsky born 1928
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  128. Narendra Modi born 1950
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  131. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
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  135. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  136. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  137. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
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  140. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  141. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
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