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Leon Trotsky & Rabindranath Tagore

Did Leon Trotsky and Rabindranath Tagore live at the same time?

Yes. Leon Trotsky and Rabindranath Tagore lived at the same time for 61 years, from 1879 to 1940.[1][2][3][4]

Leon Trotsky · Rabindranath Tagore · Born in 1879 · Born in 1861

Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky
1879–1940
Politics & Leadership
Russian revolutionary, founder of the Red Army
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore
1861–1941
Literature
First non-European Nobel laureate in Literature
18611941
Leon Trotsky
Rabindranath Tagore
Leon Trotsky
Politics & Leadership
Born in Bereslavka
Died in Coyoacán
Rabindranath Tagore
Literature
Born in Kolkata
Died in Kolkata

World Events During Their Overlap

1884 Berlin Conference partitions Africa
1893 New Zealand becomes first country to grant women's suffrage
1896 First modern Olympic Games in Athens
1898 Spanish-American War
1903 Wright brothers achieve powered flight
1905 Einstein publishes theory of special relativity
1912 Sinking of the Titanic
1914 World War I begins
1917 Russian Revolution
1918 World War I ends; Spanish flu pandemic begins
1919 Treaty of Versailles signed
1920 League of Nations established
1928 Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
1929 Wall Street Crash; Great Depression begins
1933 Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
1936 Spanish Civil War begins
1939 World War II begins

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Sources

  1. Leon Trotsky — Wikipedia
  2. Leon Trotsky (Q33391) — Wikidata
  3. Rabindranath Tagore — Wikipedia
  4. Rabindranath Tagore (Q7241) — Wikidata