My favorite example is that Laura Ingalls Wilder traveled west in a conastoga wagon and flew in an airplane before she died.
Ho Chi Minh at one time worked as a cook and dishwasher in Harlem. In Boston, he worked at the same bakery that Malcolm X worked at about 30 years later.
General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, victor at the Alamo, lived in Staten Island in New York after the Civil War for a time after being exiled from Mexico .
Lorenzo Da Ponte, who wrote the libretti for Mozart’s operas The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Cosi fan tutte, later moved to New York, where he ran a grocery store. One of his New York friends was Clement Moore, author of “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” who helped him get a job as a professor of Italian literature at Columbia University.
Karl Marx was a regular correspondent and contributor to the New York Daily Tribune
Jean Paul Marat, the French Revolutionary (famously assassinated in his bath by Charlotte Corday) was also a scientist. He independently discovered the use of shadowgraph imagery to detect and make visible air currents and convection, anticipating later Schlieren imagery. He once demonstrated it by showing colleagues the hot air rising from the head of Benjamin Franklin.
Speaking of Franklin, his illegitimate son William was the Royal Governor of New Jersey during the American Revolution (something I first learned from the play 1776)
In 1913, Adolf Hitler, Leon Trotsky, Joseph Stalin, Sigmund Freud and Joseph Tito all lived in the same place - Vienna.
As of May 26, 2017, the U.S. was still paying one veteran’s pension to a child of a veteran of the Civil War. Irene Triplett gets $73.13 every month. Cite.
I just want to say that “Bublical figure” is a great typo. We need a term for grandmothers in the Bible. 
At first I thought you meant they all lived together in the same apartment. Hey, I’d watch that sitcom!
It would probably be a bit like The Young Ones.
“Darling Fascist Bully Boy…”
from the script:
Sir Richard Francis Burton, the African explorer and aficionado of exotica (especially sexual), once met Brigham Young. He decided to visit Utah in 1860 because of his interest in polygamy.
Santa Anna also introduced modern chewing gum to the United States.
If you brought Abraham Lincoln back from the past to the modern world, he wouldn’t know how to open a door.
The modern door knob is a surprisingly recent invention. It was patented in 1878.
On the other hand, indoor flush toilets (admittedly not with the modern mechanism) are surprisingly ancient: they have been found in the Indus Valley civilization, 2600-1900 BC.
The United States and the Holy Roman Empire co-existed for nearly 30 years.
Otto Frank (father of Anne) and Hitler were at the Somme in 1916.
In 2016, China became the worlds largest economy. It has been that for most of history.
When the British first came to India, what did they think of the Taj Mahal? Nothing, it had not been built yet and would not be for 50 years.
My grandfather (b. 1900) often remarked about this before his death in 1971.
That doesn’t quite capture it – Mormon polygamy was understandably a “hot” topic of discussion in Europe. Burton, who had written about Near Eastern polygamy, wanted to see how it compared. Having proposed to his future wife Isabel, Burton made the trip to Utah while awaiting her reply (!). When he got back after the trip, he wrote it up as the City of the Saints. It’s a good read.
Burton had previously made the Pilgrimage to Mecca in the disguise of an Egyptian Muslim doctor. He wrote that trip up, too, as the two-volume Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Mekka and al-Medinah, which is also worth reading (although, of course, things have changed enormously since Burton’s time)
When Burton got to Salt Lake City, he had a private audience with Brigham Young (both were world-famous figures, after all), and Young was rumored to have greeted Burton with the words “I understand you’ve done something like this before.” A great story, but probably not true. Burton reports nothing like it in his book, although he does say he was impressed with Young and his knowledge.
Burton wasn’t that impressed with a lot else, though. He regarded Truman Angell’s Salt Lake Temple as an architectural monstrosity. (I like it, myself). He found Mormon polygamy to be dry and straitlaced compared to the practice in the Near East (exactly how he decided this, I don’t know). His overall impression of Mormonism seemed to be (although he certainly didn’t put it this way) It’s No More Ridiculous Than Any Other Religion.
Burton gives a synopsis of the Book of Mormon in the footnotes of his book, along with a listing of all the pro- and anti-Mormon literature he’d read before and during his journey. he read a LOT of stuff.
Cite? The IMF doesn’t agree.
The first skyscraper, Home Insurance Building in Chicago was finished in 1885.
Neuschwanstein Castle was finished in 1886.