Who Was Alive

Wolfgang Pauli

Physicist, Nobel prize winner

Born 25 April 1900 · died 15 December 1958, aged 58

Who was alive at the same time as Wolfgang Pauli?

  1. Leo Tolstoy
  2. Mark Twain
  3. Friedrich Nietzsche
  4. Thomas Edison
  5. Sigmund Freud
  6. Mahatma Gandhi
  7. Vladimir Lenin
  8. Winston Churchill
  9. Joseph Stalin
  10. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  11. Albert Einstein
  12. Pablo Picasso
  13. Charlie Chaplin
  14. Adolf Hitler
  15. Wolfgang Pauli
  16. Ronald Reagan
  17. John F. Kennedy
  18. Nelson Mandela
  19. Elizabeth II
  20. Joe Biden
  21. Donald Trump
  22. George W. Bush
  23. Vladimir Putin
  24. Michael Jackson
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When Wolfgang Pauli was born, Adolf Hitler was 11, Albert Einstein was 21, Vladimir Lenin was 30, Mahatma Gandhi was 30 and Leo Tolstoy was 71.

When Wolfgang Pauli died, Donald Trump was 12, Michael Jackson was under a year old, Vladimir Putin was 6, Ronald Reagan was 47 and Nelson Mandela was 40.

Born during Wolfgang Pauli’s lifetime: Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush, Joe Biden and Elizabeth II.

Not quite contemporaries: Barack Obama was born 3 years after Wolfgang Pauli died, Victor Hugo died 15 years before Wolfgang Pauli was born, Vincent van Gogh died 10 years before Wolfgang Pauli was born and Jimmy Wales was born 8 years after Wolfgang Pauli died.

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  2. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  3. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  4. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  5. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  6. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  7. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  8. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  9. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  10. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  11. George W. Bush born 1946
  12. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  13. Joe Biden born 1942
  14. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  15. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  16. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  17. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  18. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  19. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  21. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  22. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  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 Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  29. Bill Gates born 1955
  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. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  36. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  37. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  38. Bill Clinton born 1946
  39. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  40. Angela Merkel born 1954
  41. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  42. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  43. François Hollande born 1954
  44. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  45. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  46. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  47. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  48. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  49. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  50. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  51. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  52. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  53. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  54. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  55. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  56. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  57. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  58. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  59. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  60. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  61. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  62. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  63. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  64. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  65. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  66. Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  67. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  68. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  69. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  70. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  71. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  72. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  73. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  74. Madonna born 1958
  75. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  76. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  77. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  78. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  79. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  80. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  81. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
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  83. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  84. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  85. Xi Jinping born 1953
  86. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  87. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  88. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  89. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  90. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  91. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  92. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  93. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  94. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  95. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  96. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  97. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  98. Bob Dylan born 1941
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  100. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  101. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  102. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  103. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  104. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  105. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  106. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  107. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  108. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  109. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  110. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  111. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  112. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  113. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  114. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  115. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  116. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  117. Charles III born 1948
  118. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  119. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  120. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  121. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  122. Leo XIV born 1955
  123. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  124. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  125. Narendra Modi born 1950
  126. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  127. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  128. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  129. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  130. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  131. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  132. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  133. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  134. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  135. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  136. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  137. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  138. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  139. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  140. Tenzin Gyatso born 1935
  141. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  142. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  143. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  144. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  145. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  146. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  147. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  148. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  149. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  150. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981

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