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Maxim Gorky & Rabindranath Tagore

Did Maxim Gorky and Rabindranath Tagore live at the same time?

Yes. Maxim Gorky and Rabindranath Tagore lived at the same time for 68 years, from 1868 to 1936.[1][2][3][4]

Maxim Gorky · Rabindranath Tagore · Born in 1868 · Born in 1861

Maxim Gorky
Maxim Gorky
1868–1936
Literature
Russian writer of The Lower Depths
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore
1861–1941
Literature
First non-European Nobel laureate in Literature
18611941
Maxim Gorky
Rabindranath Tagore
Maxim Gorky
Literature
Born in Nizhny Novgorod
Died in Gorki-10
Rabindranath Tagore
Literature
Born in Kolkata
Died in Kolkata

World Events During Their Overlap

1869 Suez Canal opens
1871 Unification of Germany
1876 Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone
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

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Sources

  1. Maxim Gorky — Wikipedia
  2. Maxim Gorky (Q12706) — Wikidata
  3. Rabindranath Tagore — Wikipedia
  4. Rabindranath Tagore (Q7241) — Wikidata