Who was alive at the same time as Richard Nixon?

President of the United States from 1969 to 1974

Richard Nixon lived 1913–1994. Here are the famous people whose lives overlapped with theirs.

Lived: 1913–1994
Lifespan: about 81 years
Born in, as it was then: Los Angeles, CA
On today’s map: United States

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When Richard Nixon was born, Albert Einstein was already about 34 years old.
Richard Nixon was about 15 when Che Guevara was born.
Richard Nixon and Adolf Hitler (Dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945) shared about 32 years on Earth, one born in the United States and the other in Austria.
Mother Teresa outlived Richard Nixon by about 3 years.

Famous contemporaries of Richard Nixon

Rulers and commanders

Adolf Hitler 1889–1945 · 32 yrs shared
Joseph Stalin 1878–1953 · 40 yrs shared
Vladimir Lenin 1870–1924 · 11 yrs shared
Benito Mussolini 1883–1945 · 32 yrs shared
Mao Zedong 1893–1976 · 63 yrs shared
Winston Churchill 1874–1965 · 52 yrs shared

Philosophers and scientists

Albert Einstein 1879–1955 · 42 yrs shared
Sigmund Freud 1856–1939 · 26 yrs shared
Max Weber 1864–1920 · 7 yrs shared
Thomas Edison 1847–1931 · 18 yrs shared
Marie Curie 1867–1934 · 21 yrs shared
John Maynard Keynes 1883–1946 · 33 yrs shared

Religion

Pope John Paul II 1920–2005 · 74 yrs shared

Writers and artists

Pablo Picasso 1881–1973 · 60 yrs shared
Elvis Presley 1935–1977 · 42 yrs shared
Salvador Dalí 1904–1989 · 76 yrs shared
Claude Monet 1840–1926 · 13 yrs shared
Marilyn Monroe 1926–1962 · 36 yrs shared
Le Corbusier 1887–1965 · 52 yrs shared

Explorers and others

Che Guevara 1928–1967 · 39 yrs shared
Mahatma Gandhi 1869–1948 · 35 yrs shared
Martin Luther King Jr. 1929–1968 · 39 yrs shared
Walt Disney 1901–1966 · 53 yrs shared
Mother Teresa 1910–1997 · 81 yrs shared
Pelé 1940–2022 · 54 yrs shared

Born within five years of Richard Nixon

Mother Teresa (1910) · John F. Kennedy (1917) · Édith Piaf (1915) · Ingmar Bergman (1918) · Ronald Reagan (1911) · Frank Sinatra (1915) · Simone de Beauvoir (1908) · Nelson Mandela (1918)

About Richard Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1974. A member of the Republican Party, he represented California in both houses of the United States Congress before serving as the 36th vice president under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1961. His presidency saw the reduction of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, détente with the Soviet Union and China, the Apollo 11 Moon landing, and the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency and Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Nixon's second term ended early when he became the only U.S. president to resign from office, as a part of the Watergate scandal.

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