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Vaslav Nijinsky
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Vaslav Nijinsky

Polish ballet dancer and choreographer

Born 1889–1890 · died 8 April 1950, aged 60 or 61
Also known as Vaslav Fomitch Nijinsky, Waclaw Nizi'nsky, Vaclav Fomic Nizinskij

Who was alive at the same time as Vaslav Nijinsky?

  1. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  2. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  3. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  4. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  5. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  6. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  7. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  8. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  9. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  10. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  11. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  12. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  13. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  14. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  15. Vaslav Nijinsky, c. 1890 – 1950
  16. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  17. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  18. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  19. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  20. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  21. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  22. Joe Biden, born 1942
  23. Donald Trump, born 1946
  24. George W. Bush, born 1946

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When Vaslav Nijinsky was born, Albert Einstein was 9 or 10, Vladimir Lenin was 18 or 19, Mahatma Gandhi was 19 or 20, Leo Tolstoy was 60 or 61 and Joseph Stalin was 10 or 11.

When Vaslav Nijinsky died, Donald Trump was 3, Albert Einstein was 71, Ronald Reagan was 39, Nelson Mandela was 31 and George W. Bush was 3.

Born during Vaslav Nijinsky’s lifetime: Donald Trump, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr..

Not quite contemporaries: Barack Obama was born about 11 years after Vaslav Nijinsky died, Michael Jackson was born about 8 years after Vaslav Nijinsky died, Vladimir Putin was born about 2 years after Vaslav Nijinsky died and Karl Marx died about 6 years before Vaslav Nijinsky was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,827 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Vaslav Nijinsky. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1920.

  1. Donald Trump born 1946
  2. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  3. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  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. George W. Bush born 1946
  10. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  11. Joe Biden born 1942
  12. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  13. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  14. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  15. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  16. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  17. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  18. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  19. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  21. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  22. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  23. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  24. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  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. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  31. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  32. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  33. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  34. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  35. Bill Clinton born 1946
  36. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  37. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  38. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  39. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  40. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  41. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  42. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  43. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  44. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  45. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  46. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  47. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  48. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  49. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  50. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  51. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  52. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  53. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  54. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  55. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  56. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  57. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  58. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  59. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  60. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  61. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  62. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  63. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  64. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  65. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  66. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  67. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  68. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  69. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  70. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  71. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  72. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  73. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  74. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  75. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  76. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  77. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  78. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  79. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  80. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  81. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  82. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  83. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  84. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  85. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  86. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  87. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  88. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  89. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  90. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  91. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  92. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  93. Bob Dylan born 1941
  94. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  95. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  96. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  97. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  98. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  99. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  100. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  101. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  102. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  103. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  104. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  105. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  106. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  107. Charles III born 1948
  108. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  109. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  110. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  111. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  112. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  113. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  114. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  115. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  116. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  117. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  118. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  119. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  120. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  121. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  122. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  123. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  124. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  125. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  126. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  127. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  128. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  129. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  130. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  131. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  132. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  133. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  134. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  135. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  136. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  137. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  138. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  139. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  140. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  141. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  142. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  143. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  144. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  145. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  146. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  147. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  148. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  149. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  150. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922