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Wilhelm Keitel
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Wilhelm Keitel

German military officer

Born 22 September 1882 · died 16 October 1946, aged 64

Who was alive at the same time as Wilhelm Keitel?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  3. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  4. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  5. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  6. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  7. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  8. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  9. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  10. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  11. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  12. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  13. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  14. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  15. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  16. Wilhelm Keitel, 1882 – 1946
  17. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  18. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  19. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  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 Wilhelm Keitel was born, Albert Einstein was 3, Karl Marx was 64, Vladimir Lenin was 12, Mahatma Gandhi was 12 and Leo Tolstoy was 54.

When Wilhelm Keitel died, Donald Trump was under a year old, Albert Einstein was 67, Ronald Reagan was 35, Nelson Mandela was 28 and Mahatma Gandhi was 77.

Born during Wilhelm Keitel’s lifetime: Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Charlie Chaplin and Elizabeth II.

Not quite contemporaries: Barack Obama was born about 15 years after Wilhelm Keitel died, Michael Jackson was born about 12 years after Wilhelm Keitel died, Vladimir Putin was born about 6 years after Wilhelm Keitel died and Charles Darwin died months before Wilhelm Keitel was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,681 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Wilhelm Keitel. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1914.

  1. Donald Trump born 1946
  2. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  3. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  4. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  5. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  6. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  7. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  8. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  9. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  10. George W. Bush born 1946
  11. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  12. Joe Biden born 1942
  13. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  14. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  15. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  16. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  17. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  18. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  19. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  20. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  21. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  22. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  23. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  24. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  25. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  26. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  27. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  28. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  29. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  30. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  31. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  32. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  33. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  34. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  35. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  36. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  37. Bill Clinton born 1946
  38. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  39. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  40. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  41. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  42. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  43. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  44. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  45. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  46. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  47. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  48. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  49. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  50. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  51. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  52. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  53. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  54. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  55. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  56. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  57. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  58. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  59. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  60. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  61. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  62. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  63. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  64. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  65. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  66. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  67. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  68. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  69. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  70. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  71. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  72. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  73. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  74. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  75. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  76. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  77. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  78. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  79. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  80. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  81. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  82. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  83. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  84. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  85. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  86. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  87. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  88. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  89. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  90. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  91. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  92. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  93. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  94. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  95. Bob Dylan born 1941
  96. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  97. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  98. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  99. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  100. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  101. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  102. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  103. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  104. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  105. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  106. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  107. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  108. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  109. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  110. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  111. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  112. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  113. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  114. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  115. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  116. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  117. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  118. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  119. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  120. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  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. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  127. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  128. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  129. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  130. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  131. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  132. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  133. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  134. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  135. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  136. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  137. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  138. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  139. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  140. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  141. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  142. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  143. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  144. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  145. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  146. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  147. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  148. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  149. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  150. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917