Who Was Alive

T. E. Lawrence

British archaeologist, army officer and diplomat

Born 1888 · died 1935, aged 46 or 47

Who was alive at the same time as T. E. Lawrence?

  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. T. E. Lawrence
  17. Charlie Chaplin
  18. Adolf Hitler
  19. Salvador Dalí
  20. Ronald Reagan
  21. John F. Kennedy
  22. Nelson Mandela
  23. Elizabeth II
  24. Martin Luther King Jr.
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When T. E. Lawrence was born, Albert Einstein was 8 or 9, Vladimir Lenin was 17 or 18, Mahatma Gandhi was 18 or 19, Leo Tolstoy was 59 or 60 and Joseph Stalin was 9 or 10.

When T. E. Lawrence died, Adolf Hitler was 45 or 46, Albert Einstein was 55 or 56, Ronald Reagan was 23 or 24, Nelson Mandela was 16 or 17 and Mahatma Gandhi was 65 or 66.

Born during T. E. Lawrence’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Charlie Chaplin, Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Salvador Dalí.

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born 11 years after T. E. Lawrence died, Karl Marx died 5 years before T. E. Lawrence was born, George W. Bush was born 11 years after T. E. Lawrence died and Charles Darwin died 6 years before T. E. Lawrence 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. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  15. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  16. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  17. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  18. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  19. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  20. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  21. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  22. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  23. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  24. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  25. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  26. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  27. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  28. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  29. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  30. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
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  33. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  34. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  35. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  36. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  37. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
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  39. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
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