Who Was Alive

Srinivasa Ramanujan

Indian mathematician

Born 22 December 1887 · died 26 April 1920, aged 32

Who was alive at the same time as Srinivasa Ramanujan?

  1. Leo Tolstoy
  2. Mark Twain
  3. Friedrich Nietzsche
  4. Thomas Edison
  5. Vincent van Gogh
  6. Sigmund Freud
  7. Rabindranath Tagore
  8. Marie Curie
  9. Mahatma Gandhi
  10. Vladimir Lenin
  11. Winston Churchill
  12. Joseph Stalin
  13. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  14. Albert Einstein
  15. Pablo Picasso
  16. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  17. Franz Kafka
  18. Srinivasa Ramanujan
  19. Charlie Chaplin
  20. Adolf Hitler
  21. Salvador Dalí
  22. Ronald Reagan
  23. John F. Kennedy
  24. Nelson Mandela
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When Srinivasa Ramanujan was born, Albert Einstein was 8, Vladimir Lenin was 17, Mahatma Gandhi was 18, Leo Tolstoy was 59 and Joseph Stalin was 9.

When Srinivasa Ramanujan died, Adolf Hitler was 31, Albert Einstein was 41, Ronald Reagan was 9, Vladimir Lenin was 50 and Nelson Mandela was 1.

Born during Srinivasa Ramanujan’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Charlie Chaplin, John F. Kennedy, Salvador Dalí, Mao Zedong and Charles de Gaulle.

Not quite contemporaries: Karl Marx died 4 years before Srinivasa Ramanujan was born, Charles Darwin died 5 years before Srinivasa Ramanujan was born, Victor Hugo died 2 years before Srinivasa Ramanujan was born and Fyodor Dostoyevsky died 6 years before Srinivasa Ramanujan was born.

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  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. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  10. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  11. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  12. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  13. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  14. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  15. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  16. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  17. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  18. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  19. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  20. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  21. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  22. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  23. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  24. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  25. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  26. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  27. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  28. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  29. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  30. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  31. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  32. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  33. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  34. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  35. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  36. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
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  46. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
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  48. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
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  53. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  54. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  55. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  56. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
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