Who Was Alive
Antonin Artaud
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Antonin Artaud

French poet and playwright

Born 4 September 1896 · died 4 March 1948, aged 51
Also known as Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud, Antoine Marie Joseph Paul Artaud, Artaud

Who was alive at the same time as Antonin Artaud?

  1. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  2. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  3. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  4. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  5. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  6. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  7. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  8. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  9. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  10. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  11. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  12. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  13. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  14. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  15. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  16. Antonin Artaud, 1896 – 1948
  17. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  18. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  19. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  20. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  21. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968
  22. Joe Biden, born 1942
  23. Donald Trump, born 1946
  24. George W. Bush, born 1946

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When Antonin Artaud was born, Adolf Hitler was 7, Albert Einstein was 17, Vladimir Lenin was 26, Mahatma Gandhi was 26 and Leo Tolstoy was 67.

When Antonin Artaud died, Donald Trump was 1, Albert Einstein was 68, Ronald Reagan was 37, Nelson Mandela was 29 and George W. Bush was 1.

Born during Antonin Artaud’s lifetime: Donald Trump, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr..

Not quite contemporaries: Barack Obama was born about 13 years after Antonin Artaud died, Michael Jackson was born about 10 years after Antonin Artaud died, Vladimir Putin was born about 4 years after Antonin Artaud died and Karl Marx died about 13 years before Antonin Artaud was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,660 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Antonin Artaud. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1922.

  1. Donald Trump born 1946
  2. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  3. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  4. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  5. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  6. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  7. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  8. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  9. George W. Bush born 1946
  10. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  11. Joe Biden born 1942
  12. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  13. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  14. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  15. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  16. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  17. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  18. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  20. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  21. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  22. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  23. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  24. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  25. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  26. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  27. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  28. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  29. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  30. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  31. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  32. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  33. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  34. Bill Clinton born 1946
  35. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  36. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  37. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  38. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  39. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  40. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  41. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  42. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  43. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  44. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  45. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  46. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  47. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  48. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  49. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  50. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  51. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  52. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  53. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  54. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  55. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  56. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  57. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  58. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  59. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  60. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  61. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  62. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  63. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  64. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  65. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  66. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  67. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  68. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  69. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  70. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  71. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  72. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  73. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  74. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  75. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  76. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  77. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  78. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  79. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  80. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  81. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  82. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  83. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  84. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  85. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  86. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  87. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  88. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  89. Bob Dylan born 1941
  90. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  91. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  92. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  93. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  94. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  95. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  96. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  97. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  98. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  99. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  100. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  101. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  102. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  103. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  104. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  105. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  106. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  107. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  108. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  109. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  110. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  111. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  112. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  113. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  114. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  115. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  116. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  117. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  118. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  119. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  120. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  121. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  122. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  123. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  124. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  125. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  126. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  127. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  128. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  129. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  130. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  131. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  132. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  133. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  134. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  135. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  136. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  137. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  138. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  139. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  140. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  141. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  142. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  143. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  144. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  145. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  146. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  147. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  148. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  149. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  150. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008