Who was born first, Albert Einstein or Wole Soyinka?

Albert Einstein was born first, in 1879. Wole Soyinka was born in 1934.

Albert Einstein & Wole Soyinka

Did Albert Einstein and Wole Soyinka live at the same time?

Yes. Albert Einstein and Wole Soyinka lived at the same time for 21 years, from 1934 to 1955.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Albert Einstein · Wole Soyinka · Born in 1879 · Born in 1934

Albert Einstein

1879–1955

Science & Invention

Theory of relativity, E=mc²

Wole Soyinka

1934–present

Literature

First African Nobel laureate in Literature

18792026

Albert Einstein

Wole Soyinka

Albert Einstein

Science & Invention

Born in Ulm

Died in Princeton

Wole Soyinka

Literature

Born in Ogun State

World Events During Their Overlap

1936 Spanish Civil War begins

1939 World War II begins

1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor; US enters WWII

1944 D-Day: Allied invasion of Normandy

1945 Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; WWII ends

1945 United Nations founded

1947 India and Pakistan gain independence

1948 State of Israel established

1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted

1949 People's Republic of China proclaimed

1950 Korean War begins

1953 Watson and Crick discover DNA structure

1955 Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

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92 years overlap

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92 years overlap

Wole Soyinka & Yoko Ono

92 years overlap

Sources

Albert Einstein — Wikipedia
Albert Einstein (Q937) — Wikidata
Wole Soyinka — Wikipedia
Wole Soyinka (Q41488) — Wikidata