Who Was Alive

Vladimir Lenin

Founding leader of the Soviet Union

Born 22 April 1870 · died 21 January 1924, aged 53

Who was alive at the same time as Vladimir Lenin?

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Charles Darwin
  3. Charles Dickens
  4. Karl Marx
  5. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  6. Leo Tolstoy
  7. Mark Twain
  8. Friedrich Nietzsche
  9. Thomas Edison
  10. Vincent van Gogh
  11. Sigmund Freud
  12. Marie Curie
  13. Mahatma Gandhi
  14. Vladimir Lenin
  15. Winston Churchill
  16. Joseph Stalin
  17. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  18. Albert Einstein
  19. Pablo Picasso
  20. Charlie Chaplin
  21. Adolf Hitler
  22. Ronald Reagan
  23. John F. Kennedy
  24. Nelson Mandela
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Vladimir Lenin was born, Karl Marx was 51, Mahatma Gandhi was under a year old, Leo Tolstoy was 41, Charles Darwin was 61 and Victor Hugo was 68.

When Vladimir Lenin died, Adolf Hitler was 34, Albert Einstein was 44, Ronald Reagan was 12, Nelson Mandela was 5 and Mahatma Gandhi was 54.

Born during Vladimir Lenin’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Joseph Stalin, Pablo Picasso, Winston Churchill and Charlie Chaplin.

Not quite contemporaries: Abraham Lincoln died 5 years before Vladimir Lenin was born, Elizabeth II was born 2 years after Vladimir Lenin died, Martin Luther King Jr. was born 5 years after Vladimir Lenin died and Marilyn Monroe was born 2 years after Vladimir Lenin died.

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All 665 contemporaries we track

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  5. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  6. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  7. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  8. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  9. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  10. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  11. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  12. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  13. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  14. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  15. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  16. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  17. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  18. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  19. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  21. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  22. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  23. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  24. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  25. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  26. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  27. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  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. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  39. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  40. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  41. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  42. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  43. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  44. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  45. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  46. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  47. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  48. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  49. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  50. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  51. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  52. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  53. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  54. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  55. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  56. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  57. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  58. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  59. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  60. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  61. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  62. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  63. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  64. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  65. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  66. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  67. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  68. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  69. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  70. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  71. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  72. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  73. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  74. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  75. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  76. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  77. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  78. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  79. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  80. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  81. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  82. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  83. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  84. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  85. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  86. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  87. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  88. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  89. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  90. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  91. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  92. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  93. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  94. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  95. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  96. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  97. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  98. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  99. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  100. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  101. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  102. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  103. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  104. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  105. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  106. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  107. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  108. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  109. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  110. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  111. Isaac Asimov 1919–1920 – 1992
  112. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  113. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  114. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  115. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  116. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  117. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  118. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  119. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  120. Kim Il-sung 1912 – 1994
  121. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  122. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  123. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  124. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  125. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  126. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  127. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  128. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  129. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  130. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  131. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  132. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  133. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  134. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  135. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  136. William Butler Yeats 1865 – 1939
  137. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  138. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  139. Judy Garland 1922 – 1969
  140. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  141. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  142. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  143. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  144. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  145. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  146. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  147. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  148. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  149. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  150. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881

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