Who Was Alive
Sophie Scholl
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Sophie Scholl

German resistance fighter

Born 9 May 1921 · died 22 February 1943, aged 21
Also known as Sophia Magdalena Scholl, Sofie Scholl

Who was alive at the same time as Sophie Scholl?

  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. Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1882 – 1945
  13. Franz Kafka, 1883 – 1924
  14. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  15. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  16. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  17. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  18. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  19. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  20. Sophie Scholl, 1921 – 1943
  21. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  22. Marilyn Monroe, 1926 – 1962
  23. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968
  24. Joe Biden, born 1942

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When Sophie Scholl was born, Adolf Hitler was 32, Albert Einstein was 42, Ronald Reagan was 10, Vladimir Lenin was 51 and Nelson Mandela was 2.

When Sophie Scholl died, Adolf Hitler was 53, Albert Einstein was 63, Ronald Reagan was 32, Nelson Mandela was 24 and Mahatma Gandhi was 73.

Born during Sophie Scholl’s lifetime: Joe Biden, Elizabeth II, Martin Luther King Jr., Marilyn Monroe, Pope Francis, Che Guevara, Neil Armstrong and Elvis Presley.

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born about 3 years after Sophie Scholl died, Vladimir Putin was born about 9 years after Sophie Scholl died, Leo Tolstoy died about 11 years before Sophie Scholl was born and George W. Bush was born about 3 years after Sophie Scholl died.

What happened in Sophie Scholl’s lifetime

Where Sophie Scholl’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,177 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Sophie Scholl. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1932.

  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. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  8. Joe Biden born 1942
  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. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  17. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  18. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  19. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  20. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  21. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  22. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  23. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  24. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  25. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  26. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  27. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  28. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  29. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  30. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  31. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  32. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  33. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  34. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  35. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  36. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  37. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  38. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  39. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  40. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  41. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  42. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  43. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  44. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  45. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  46. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  47. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  48. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  49. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  50. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  51. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  52. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  53. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  54. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  55. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  56. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  57. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  58. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  59. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  60. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  61. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  62. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  63. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  64. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  65. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  66. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  67. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  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. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  75. Bob Dylan born 1941
  76. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  77. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  78. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  79. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  80. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  81. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  82. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  83. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  84. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  85. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  86. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  87. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  88. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  89. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  90. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  91. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  92. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  93. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  94. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  95. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  96. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  97. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  98. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  99. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  100. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  101. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  102. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  103. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  104. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  105. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  106. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  107. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  108. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  109. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  110. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  111. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  112. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  113. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  114. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  115. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  116. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  117. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  118. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  119. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  120. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  121. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  122. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  123. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  124. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  125. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  126. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  127. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  128. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  129. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  130. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  131. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  132. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  133. Woody Allen born 1935
  134. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  135. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  136. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  137. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  138. Yasser Arafat 1929 – 2004
  139. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  140. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  141. Judy Garland 1922 – 1969
  142. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  143. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  144. Brigitte Bardot 1934 – 2025
  145. Hebe Camargo 1929 – 2012
  146. Umberto Eco 1932 – 2016
  147. Audrey Hepburn 1929 – 1993
  148. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  149. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  150. Paul McCartney born 1942