Who Was Alive

William Butler Yeats

Irish poet and playwright

Born 13 June 1865 · died 28 January 1939, aged 73

Who was alive at the same time as William Butler Yeats?

  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. William Butler Yeats
  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. Nelson Mandela
  24. Elizabeth II
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When William Butler Yeats was born, Karl Marx was 47, Leo Tolstoy was 36, Charles Darwin was 56, Victor Hugo was 63 and Vincent van Gogh was 12.

When William Butler Yeats died, Adolf Hitler was 49, Albert Einstein was 59, Ronald Reagan was 27, Nelson Mandela was 20 and Mahatma Gandhi was 69.

Born during William Butler Yeats’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Lenin, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin and Pablo Picasso.

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born 7 years after William Butler Yeats died, Vladimir Putin was born 13 years after William Butler Yeats died, Abraham Lincoln died months before William Butler Yeats was born and George W. Bush was born 7 years after William Butler Yeats died.

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