Who was alive at the same time as Joseph Stalin?

Politician and leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from 1924 to 1953

Joseph Stalin lived 1878–1953. Here are the famous people whose lives overlapped with theirs.

Lived: 1878–1953
Lifespan: about 75 years
Born in, as it was then: Gori
On today’s map: Georgia

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When Joseph Stalin was born, Karl Marx was already about 60 years old.
Joseph Stalin was about 1 when Albert Einstein was born.
Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler (Dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945) shared about 56 years on Earth, one born in Georgia and the other in Austria.
Pablo Picasso outlived Joseph Stalin by about 20 years.

Famous contemporaries of Joseph Stalin

Rulers and commanders

Adolf Hitler 1889–1945 · 56 yrs shared
Vladimir Lenin 1870–1924 · 46 yrs shared
Benito Mussolini 1883–1945 · 62 yrs shared
Mao Zedong 1893–1976 · 60 yrs shared
Otto von Bismarck 1815–1898 · 20 yrs shared
Winston Churchill 1874–1965 · 75 yrs shared

Philosophers and scientists

Albert Einstein 1879–1955 · 74 yrs shared
Karl Marx 1818–1883 · 5 yrs shared
Sigmund Freud 1856–1939 · 61 yrs shared
Charles Darwin 1809–1882 · 4 yrs shared
Friedrich Nietzsche 1844–1900 · 22 yrs shared
Louis Pasteur 1822–1895 · 17 yrs shared

Writers and artists

Vincent van Gogh 1853–1890 · 12 yrs shared
Pablo Picasso 1881–1973 · 72 yrs shared
Victor Hugo 1802–1885 · 7 yrs shared
Elvis Presley 1935–1977 · 18 yrs shared
Richard Wagner 1813–1883 · 5 yrs shared
Salvador Dalí 1904–1989 · 49 yrs shared

Explorers and others

Che Guevara 1928–1967 · 25 yrs shared
Mahatma Gandhi 1869–1948 · 70 yrs shared
Martin Luther King Jr. 1929–1968 · 24 yrs shared
Walt Disney 1901–1966 · 52 yrs shared
Mother Teresa 1910–1997 · 43 yrs shared

Born within five years of Joseph Stalin

Albert Einstein (1879) · Pablo Picasso (1881) · Benito Mussolini (1883) · Winston Churchill (1874) · Hermann Hesse (1877) · Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881) · Thomas Mann (1875) · James Joyce (1882)

About Joseph Stalin

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from the late 1920s until his death in 1953, holding the title of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1952 and serving as the nation's premier from 1941 to 1953. Initially part of a collective leadership within a one-party system, he ultimately consolidated personal power to become the country's de facto dictator by the 1930s. Ideologically committed to the Leninist interpretation of Marxism, Stalin helped to formalise these ideas as Marxism–Leninism, while his own policies became known as Stalinism.

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