Who Was Alive

Albert Camus

French philosopher, author, and journalist

Born 7 November 1913 · died 4 January 1960, aged 46

Who was alive at the same time as Albert Camus?

  1. Thomas Edison
  2. Sigmund Freud
  3. Marie Curie
  4. Mahatma Gandhi
  5. Vladimir Lenin
  6. Winston Churchill
  7. Joseph Stalin
  8. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  9. Albert Einstein
  10. Pablo Picasso
  11. Charlie Chaplin
  12. Adolf Hitler
  13. Salvador Dalí
  14. Ronald Reagan
  15. Albert Camus
  16. John F. Kennedy
  17. Nelson Mandela
  18. Elizabeth II
  19. Martin Luther King Jr.
  20. Joe Biden
  21. Donald Trump
  22. George W. Bush
  23. Vladimir Putin
  24. Michael Jackson
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When Albert Camus was born, Adolf Hitler was 24, Albert Einstein was 34, Ronald Reagan was 2, Vladimir Lenin was 43 and Mahatma Gandhi was 44.

When Albert Camus died, Donald Trump was 13, Michael Jackson was 1, Vladimir Putin was 7, Ronald Reagan was 48 and Nelson Mandela was 41.

Born during Albert Camus’s lifetime: Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Elizabeth II and John F. Kennedy.

Not quite contemporaries: Barack Obama was born about a year after Albert Camus died, Leo Tolstoy died 3 years before Albert Camus was born, Friedrich Nietzsche died 13 years before Albert Camus was born and Mark Twain died 3 years before Albert Camus was born.

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  8. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
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  11. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
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  13. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
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  15. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
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  21. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
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