Who Was Alive

Winston Churchill

British statesman, soldier and writer

Born 30 November 1874 · died 24 January 1965, aged 90

Who was alive at the same time as Winston Churchill?

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Charles Darwin
  3. Karl Marx
  4. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  5. Leo Tolstoy
  6. Friedrich Nietzsche
  7. Vincent van Gogh
  8. Mahatma Gandhi
  9. Vladimir Lenin
  10. Winston Churchill
  11. Joseph Stalin
  12. Albert Einstein
  13. Pablo Picasso
  14. Charlie Chaplin
  15. Adolf Hitler
  16. Ronald Reagan
  17. Nelson Mandela
  18. Elizabeth II
  19. Joe Biden
  20. Donald Trump
  21. George W. Bush
  22. Vladimir Putin
  23. Michael Jackson
  24. Barack Obama
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When Winston Churchill was born, Karl Marx was 56, Vladimir Lenin was 4, Mahatma Gandhi was 5, Leo Tolstoy was 46 and Charles Darwin was 65.

When Winston Churchill died, Barack Obama was 3, Donald Trump was 18, Michael Jackson was 6, Vladimir Putin was 12 and Ronald Reagan was 53.

Born during Winston Churchill’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler, Michael Jackson, Albert Einstein, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan and Nelson Mandela.

Not quite contemporaries: Abraham Lincoln died 9 years before Winston Churchill was born, Charles Dickens died 4 years before Winston Churchill was born, Jimmy Wales was born about a year after Winston Churchill died and Shakira was born 12 years after Winston Churchill died.

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  1. Barack Obama born 1961
  2. Donald Trump born 1946
  3. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  4. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  5. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  6. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  7. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  8. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  9. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  10. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  11. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  12. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  13. George W. Bush born 1946
  14. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  15. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  16. Joe Biden born 1942
  17. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  18. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  19. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  20. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  21. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  22. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  23. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  24. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  25. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  26. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  27. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  28. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  29. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  30. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  31. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  32. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  33. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  34. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  35. Bill Gates born 1955
  36. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  37. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  38. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  39. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  40. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  41. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  42. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  43. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  44. Bill Clinton born 1946
  45. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  46. Angela Merkel born 1954
  47. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  48. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  49. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  50. François Hollande born 1954
  51. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  52. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  53. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  54. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  55. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  56. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  57. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  58. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  59. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  60. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  61. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  62. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  63. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  64. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  65. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  66. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  67. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  68. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  69. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  70. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  71. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  72. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  73. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  74. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  75. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  76. Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  77. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  78. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  79. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  80. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  81. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  82. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  83. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  84. Madonna born 1958
  85. Kamala Harris born 1964
  86. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  87. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  88. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  89. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  90. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  91. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  92. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  93. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  94. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  95. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  96. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  97. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  98. Xi Jinping born 1953
  99. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  100. Naruhito born 1960
  101. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  102. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  103. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  104. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  105. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  106. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  107. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  108. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  109. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  110. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  111. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  112. Bob Dylan born 1941
  113. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  114. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  115. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  116. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  117. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  118. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  119. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  120. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  121. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  122. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  123. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  124. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  125. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  126. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  127. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  128. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  129. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  130. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  131. Charles III born 1948
  132. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  133. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  134. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  135. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  136. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  137. Leo XIV born 1955
  138. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  139. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  140. Narendra Modi born 1950
  141. Rafael Correa born 1963
  142. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  143. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  144. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  145. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  146. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  147. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  148. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  149. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  150. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944

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