Who was alive at the same time as Ansel Adams?

American photographer and environmentalist

Ansel Adams lived 1902–1984. Here are the famous people whose lives overlapped with theirs.

Lived: 1902–1984
Lifespan: about 82 years
Born in, as it was then: San Francisco-Bay Area, CA
On today’s map: United States

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When Ansel Adams was born, Adolf Hitler was already about 13 years old.
Ansel Adams was about 26 when Che Guevara was born.
Ansel Adams and Albert Einstein (German-born theoretical physicist) shared about 53 years on Earth, one born in the United States and the other in Germany.
Salvador Dalí outlived Ansel Adams by about 5 years.

Famous contemporaries of Ansel Adams

Rulers and commanders

Adolf Hitler 1889–1945 · 43 yrs shared
Joseph Stalin 1878–1953 · 51 yrs shared
Vladimir Lenin 1870–1924 · 22 yrs shared
Benito Mussolini 1883–1945 · 43 yrs shared
Mao Zedong 1893–1976 · 74 yrs shared
Winston Churchill 1874–1965 · 63 yrs shared

Philosophers and scientists

Albert Einstein 1879–1955 · 53 yrs shared
Sigmund Freud 1856–1939 · 37 yrs shared
Max Weber 1864–1920 · 18 yrs shared
Thomas Edison 1847–1931 · 29 yrs shared
Marie Curie 1867–1934 · 32 yrs shared
John Maynard Keynes 1883–1946 · 44 yrs shared

Writers and artists

Pablo Picasso 1881–1973 · 71 yrs shared
Elvis Presley 1935–1977 · 42 yrs shared
Salvador Dalí 1904–1989 · 80 yrs shared
Claude Monet 1840–1926 · 24 yrs shared
Marilyn Monroe 1926–1962 · 36 yrs shared
Leo Tolstoy 1828–1910 · 8 yrs shared

Explorers and others

Che Guevara 1928–1967 · 39 yrs shared
Mahatma Gandhi 1869–1948 · 46 yrs shared
Martin Luther King Jr. 1929–1968 · 39 yrs shared
Walt Disney 1901–1966 · 64 yrs shared
Mother Teresa 1910–1997 · 74 yrs shared
Pelé 1940–2022 · 44 yrs shared

Born within five years of Ansel Adams

Salvador Dalí (1904) · Walt Disney (1901) · Jean-Paul Sartre (1905) · Heinrich Himmler (1900) · George Orwell (1903) · Joseph Goebbels (1897) · Bertolt Brecht (1898) · Ernest Hemingway (1899)

About Ansel Adams

Ansel Easton Adams was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64, an association of photographers advocating "pure" photography which favored sharp focus and the use of the full tonal range of a photograph. He and Fred Archer developed a system of image-making called the Zone System, a method of achieving a desired final print through a technical understanding of how the tonal range of an image is the result of choices made in exposure, negative development, and printing.

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