Who Was Alive

Thomas Mann

German novelist and Nobel Prize laureate

Born 6 June 1875 · died 12 August 1955, aged 80

Who was alive at the same time as Thomas Mann?

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Charles Darwin
  3. Karl Marx
  4. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  5. Leo Tolstoy
  6. Friedrich Nietzsche
  7. Thomas Edison
  8. Vincent van Gogh
  9. Mahatma Gandhi
  10. Vladimir Lenin
  11. Winston Churchill
  12. Thomas Mann
  13. Joseph Stalin
  14. Albert Einstein
  15. Pablo Picasso
  16. Charlie Chaplin
  17. Adolf Hitler
  18. Ronald Reagan
  19. Nelson Mandela
  20. Elizabeth II
  21. Joe Biden
  22. Donald Trump
  23. George W. Bush
  24. Vladimir Putin
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When Thomas Mann was born, Karl Marx was 57, Vladimir Lenin was 5, Mahatma Gandhi was 5, Leo Tolstoy was 46 and Charles Darwin was 66.

When Thomas Mann died, Donald Trump was 9, Vladimir Putin was 2, Ronald Reagan was 44, Nelson Mandela was 37 and George W. Bush was 9.

Born during Thomas Mann’s lifetime: Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush and Joseph Stalin.

Not quite contemporaries: Barack Obama was born 6 years after Thomas Mann died, Michael Jackson was born 3 years after Thomas Mann died, Abraham Lincoln died 10 years before Thomas Mann was born and Charles Dickens died 5 years before Thomas Mann was born.

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  2. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  3. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  4. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  5. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  6. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  7. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  8. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  9. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  10. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  11. George W. Bush born 1946
  12. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  13. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  14. Joe Biden born 1942
  15. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  16. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  17. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  18. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  19. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  20. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  21. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  22. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  23. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  24. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  25. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  26. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  27. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  28. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  29. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  30. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
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  36. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
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