Who was alive at the same time as Albert Einstein?

German-born theoretical physicist

Albert Einstein lived 1879–1955. Here are the famous people whose lives overlapped with theirs.

Lived: 1879–1955
Lifespan: about 76 years
Born in, as it was then: Ulm
On today’s map: Germany

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When Albert Einstein was born, Vincent van Gogh was already about 26 years old.
Albert Einstein was about 10 when Adolf Hitler was born.
Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud (Austrian psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis) shared about 60 years on Earth, one born in Germany and the other in the Czech Republic.
Pablo Picasso outlived Albert Einstein by about 18 years.

Famous contemporaries of Albert Einstein

Rulers and commanders

Adolf Hitler 1889–1945 · 56 yrs shared
Joseph Stalin 1878–1953 · 74 yrs shared
Vladimir Lenin 1870–1924 · 45 yrs shared
Benito Mussolini 1883–1945 · 62 yrs shared
Mao Zedong 1893–1976 · 62 yrs shared
Otto von Bismarck 1815–1898 · 19 yrs shared

Philosophers and scientists

Karl Marx 1818–1883 · 4 yrs shared
Sigmund Freud 1856–1939 · 60 yrs shared
Charles Darwin 1809–1882 · 3 yrs shared
Friedrich Nietzsche 1844–1900 · 21 yrs shared
Louis Pasteur 1822–1895 · 16 yrs shared
Max Weber 1864–1920 · 41 yrs shared

Writers and artists

Vincent van Gogh 1853–1890 · 11 yrs shared
Pablo Picasso 1881–1973 · 74 yrs shared
Victor Hugo 1802–1885 · 6 yrs shared
Elvis Presley 1935–1977 · 20 yrs shared
Richard Wagner 1813–1883 · 4 yrs shared
Salvador Dalí 1904–1989 · 51 yrs shared

Explorers and others

Che Guevara 1928–1967 · 27 yrs shared
Mahatma Gandhi 1869–1948 · 69 yrs shared
Martin Luther King Jr. 1929–1968 · 26 yrs shared
Walt Disney 1901–1966 · 54 yrs shared
Mother Teresa 1910–1997 · 45 yrs shared

Born within five years of Albert Einstein

Pablo Picasso (1881) · Joseph Stalin (1878) · Benito Mussolini (1883) · Winston Churchill (1874) · Hermann Hesse (1877) · Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881) · Thomas Mann (1875) · James Joyce (1882)

About Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist best known for developing the theory of relativity. Einstein also made important contributions to quantum theory. His mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc2, which arises from special relativity, has been called "the world's most famous equation". He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for "his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect".

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