Who Was Alive
Symon Petliura
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Symon Petliura

Theatre critic

Born 22 May 1879 · died 25 May 1926, aged 47
Also known as V. Marchenko, V. Salevsky, I. Rokytny

Who was alive at the same time as Symon Petliura?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  3. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  4. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  5. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  6. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  7. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  8. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  9. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  10. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  11. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  12. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  13. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  14. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  15. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  16. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  17. Symon Petliura, 1879 – 1926
  18. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  19. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  20. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  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 Symon Petliura was born, Albert Einstein was under a year old, Karl Marx was 61, Vladimir Lenin was 9, Mahatma Gandhi was 9 and Leo Tolstoy was 50.

When Symon Petliura died, Adolf Hitler was 37, Albert Einstein was 47, Ronald Reagan was 15, Nelson Mandela was 7 and Mahatma Gandhi was 56.

Born during Symon Petliura’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Pablo Picasso, Charlie Chaplin, Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy and Salvador Dalí.

Not quite contemporaries: Abraham Lincoln died about 14 years before Symon Petliura was born, Charles Dickens died about 9 years before Symon Petliura was born, Martin Luther King Jr. was born about 3 years after Symon Petliura died and Hans Christian Andersen died about 4 years before Symon Petliura was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,853 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Symon Petliura. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1903.

  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 Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  17. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  18. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  19. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  21. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  22. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  23. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  24. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  25. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  26. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  27. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  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. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  39. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  40. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  41. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  42. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  43. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  44. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  45. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  46. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  47. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  48. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  49. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  50. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  51. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  52. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  53. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  54. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  55. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  56. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  57. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  58. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  59. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  60. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  61. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  62. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  63. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  64. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  65. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  66. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  67. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  68. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  69. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  70. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  71. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  72. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  73. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  74. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  75. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  76. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  77. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  78. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  79. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  80. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  81. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  82. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  83. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  84. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  85. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  86. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  87. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  88. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  89. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  90. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  91. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  92. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  93. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  94. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  95. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  96. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  97. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  98. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  99. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  100. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  101. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  102. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  103. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  104. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  105. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  106. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  107. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  108. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  109. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  110. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  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. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  118. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  119. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  120. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  121. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  122. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  123. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  124. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  125. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  126. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  127. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  128. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  129. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  130. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  131. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  132. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  133. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  134. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  135. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  136. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  137. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  138. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  139. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  140. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  141. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  142. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  143. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  144. Judy Garland 1922 – 1969
  145. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  146. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  147. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  148. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  149. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  150. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892