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Viktor Frankl
Prof. Dr. Franz Vesely, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons

Viktor Frankl

Austrian psychiatrist and neurologist

Born 26 March 1905 · died 2 September 1997, aged 92

Who was alive at the same time as Viktor Frankl?

  1. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  2. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  3. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  4. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  5. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  6. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  7. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  8. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  9. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  10. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  11. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  12. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  13. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  14. Viktor Frankl, 1905 – 1997
  15. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  16. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  17. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  18. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  19. Joe Biden, born 1942
  20. Donald Trump, born 1946
  21. George W. Bush, born 1946
  22. Vladimir Putin, born 1952
  23. Michael Jackson, 1958 – 2009
  24. Barack Obama, born 1961

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When Viktor Frankl was born, Adolf Hitler was 15, Albert Einstein was 26, Vladimir Lenin was 34, Mahatma Gandhi was 35 and Leo Tolstoy was 76.

When Viktor Frankl died, Barack Obama was 36, Donald Trump was 51, Michael Jackson was 39, Vladimir Putin was 44 and Ronald Reagan was 86.

Born during Viktor Frankl’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush and Joe Biden.

Not quite contemporaries: Vincent van Gogh died about 15 years before Viktor Frankl was born, Friedrich Nietzsche died about 5 years before Viktor Frankl was born, Anton Chekhov died about a year before Viktor Frankl was born and Oscar Wilde died about 5 years before Viktor Frankl was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

4,591 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Viktor Frankl. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1951.

  1. Barack Obama born 1961
  2. Donald Trump born 1946
  3. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  4. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  5. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  6. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  7. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  8. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  9. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  10. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  11. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  12. George W. Bush born 1946
  13. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  14. Joe Biden born 1942
  15. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  16. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  17. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  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. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  26. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  27. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  28. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  29. Bill Gates born 1955
  30. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  31. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  32. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  33. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  34. Shakira born 1977
  35. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  36. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  37. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  38. Lionel Messi born 1987
  39. Corbin Bleu born 1989
  40. Bill Clinton born 1946
  41. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  42. Basshunter born 1984
  43. Angela Merkel born 1954
  44. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  45. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  46. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  47. François Hollande born 1954
  48. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  49. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  50. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  51. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  52. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  53. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  54. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  55. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  56. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  57. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  58. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  59. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  60. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  61. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  62. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  63. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  64. Elon Musk born 1971
  65. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  66. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  67. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  68. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  69. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  70. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  71. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  72. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  73. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  74. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  75. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  76. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  77. Lady Gaga born 1986
  78. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  79. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  80. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  81. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  82. Madonna born 1958
  83. Kamala Harris born 1964
  84. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  85. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  86. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  87. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  88. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  89. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  90. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  91. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  92. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  93. Xi Jinping born 1953
  94. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  95. Naruhito born 1960
  96. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  97. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  98. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  99. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  100. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  101. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  102. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  103. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  104. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  105. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  106. Bob Dylan born 1941
  107. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  108. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  109. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  110. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  111. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  112. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  113. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  114. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  115. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  116. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  117. Justin Bieber born 1994
  118. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  119. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  120. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  121. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  122. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  123. Taylor Swift born 1989
  124. Charles III born 1948
  125. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  126. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  127. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  128. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  129. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  130. Kim Jong Un born 1984
  131. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  132. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  133. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  134. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  135. Eminem born 1972
  136. Beyoncé born 1981
  137. Selena Gomez born 1992
  138. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  139. Narendra Modi born 1950
  140. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  141. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  142. Rafael Correa born 1963
  143. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  144. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  145. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  146. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  147. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  148. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  149. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  150. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006