Famous Lives
Who was alive at the same time: history's best known leaders, religious figures, explorers, thinkers, scientists, writers, composers and painters, each from birth to death in their field's color — never more than 12 at once.
Events 457 totals
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Feb
12
1809
Abraham Lincoln · 1809–1865
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Feb
12
1809
Charles Darwin · 1809–1882
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Feb
22
1810
Frédéric Chopin · 1810–1849
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May
5
1818
Karl Marx · 1818–1883
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Nov
11
1821
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 1821–1881
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Sep
9
1828
Leo Tolstoy · 1828–1910
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Jun
13
1831
James Clerk Maxwell · 1831–1879
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Nov
30
1835
Mark Twain · 1835–1910
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Oct
15
1844
Friedrich Nietzsche · 1844–1900
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Feb
11
1847
Thomas Edison · 1847–1931
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Mar
30
1853
Vincent van Gogh · 1853–1890
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Dec
18
1878
Joseph Stalin · 1878–1953
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Mar
14
1879
Albert Einstein · 1879–1955
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May
19
1881
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk · 1881–1938
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Oct
25
1881
Pablo Picasso · 1881–1973
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Jul
3
1883
Franz Kafka · 1883–1924
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Dec
22
1887
Srinivasa Ramanujan · 1887–1920
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Apr
20
1889
Adolf Hitler · 1889–1945
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Jun
25
1903
George Orwell · 1903–1950
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May
11
1904
Salvador Dalí · 1904–1989
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Feb
6
1911
Ronald Reagan · 1911–2004
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May
18
1920
John Paul II · 1920–2005
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Mar
6
1927
Gabriel García Márquez · 1927–2014
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Aug
5
1930
Neil Armstrong · 1930–2012
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Dec
17
1936
Pope Francis · 1936–2025
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