Who was alive at the same time as Mahatma Gandhi?

Indian independence activist

Mahatma Gandhi lived 1869–1948. Here are the famous people whose lives overlapped with theirs.

Lived: 1869–1948
Lifespan: about 79 years
Born in, as it was then: Porbandar
On today’s map: India

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When Mahatma Gandhi was born, Karl Marx was already about 51 years old.
Mahatma Gandhi was about 20 when Adolf Hitler was born.
Mahatma Gandhi and Albert Einstein (German-born theoretical physicist) shared about 69 years on Earth, one born in India and the other in Germany.
Pablo Picasso outlived Mahatma Gandhi by about 25 years.

Famous contemporaries of Mahatma Gandhi

Rulers and commanders

Adolf Hitler 1889–1945 · 56 yrs shared
Joseph Stalin 1878–1953 · 70 yrs shared
Vladimir Lenin 1870–1924 · 54 yrs shared
Benito Mussolini 1883–1945 · 62 yrs shared
Mao Zedong 1893–1976 · 55 yrs shared
Otto von Bismarck 1815–1898 · 29 yrs shared

Philosophers and scientists

Albert Einstein 1879–1955 · 69 yrs shared
Karl Marx 1818–1883 · 14 yrs shared
Sigmund Freud 1856–1939 · 70 yrs shared
Charles Darwin 1809–1882 · 13 yrs shared
Friedrich Nietzsche 1844–1900 · 31 yrs shared
Louis Pasteur 1822–1895 · 26 yrs shared

Writers and artists

Vincent van Gogh 1853–1890 · 21 yrs shared
Pablo Picasso 1881–1973 · 67 yrs shared
Victor Hugo 1802–1885 · 16 yrs shared
Elvis Presley 1935–1977 · 13 yrs shared
Richard Wagner 1813–1883 · 14 yrs shared
Salvador Dalí 1904–1989 · 44 yrs shared

Explorers and others

Che Guevara 1928–1967 · 20 yrs shared
Martin Luther King Jr. 1929–1968 · 19 yrs shared
Walt Disney 1901–1966 · 47 yrs shared
Mother Teresa 1910–1997 · 38 yrs shared

Born within five years of Mahatma Gandhi

Vladimir Lenin (1870) · Max Weber (1864) · Winston Churchill (1874) · Marcel Proust (1871) · Marie Curie (1867) · Nicholas II (1868) · Bertrand Russell (1872) · Henri Matisse (1869)

About Mahatma Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule, and whose legacy would later inspire movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahātmā, first applied to him in 1914 in South Africa, is now used throughout the world.

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