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Camille Saint-Saëns
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Camille Saint-Saëns

French composer and organist

Born 9 October 1835 · died 16 December 1921, aged 86
Also known as Camille Saint-Saens, Saint-Saëns, Saint-Saens

Who was alive at the same time as Camille Saint-Saëns?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  3. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  4. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  5. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  6. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  7. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  8. Camille Saint-Saëns, 1835 – 1921
  9. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  10. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  11. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  12. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  13. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  14. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  15. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  16. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  17. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  18. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  19. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  20. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  21. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  22. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  23. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  24. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013

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When Camille Saint-Saëns was born, Karl Marx was 17, Abraham Lincoln was 26, Leo Tolstoy was 7, Charles Darwin was 26 and Victor Hugo was 33.

When Camille Saint-Saëns died, Adolf Hitler was 32, Albert Einstein was 42, Ronald Reagan was 10, Vladimir Lenin was 51 and Nelson Mandela was 3.

Born during Camille Saint-Saëns’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Lenin, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin and Vincent van Gogh.

Not quite contemporaries: Napoleon died about 14 years before Camille Saint-Saëns was born, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died about 3 years before Camille Saint-Saëns was born, Ludwig van Beethoven died about 8 years before Camille Saint-Saëns was born and Elizabeth II was born about 5 years after Camille Saint-Saëns died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,925 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Camille Saint-Saëns. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1878.

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  5. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  6. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  7. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  8. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  9. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  10. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  11. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  12. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  13. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  14. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  15. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  16. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  17. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  18. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  19. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  21. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  22. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  23. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  24. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  25. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  26. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  27. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  28. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  29. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  30. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  31. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  32. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  33. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  34. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  35. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  36. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  37. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  38. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  39. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  40. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  41. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  42. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  43. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  44. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  45. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  46. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  47. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  48. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  49. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  50. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  51. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  52. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  53. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  54. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  55. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  56. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  57. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  58. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  59. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  60. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  61. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  62. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  63. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  64. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  65. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  66. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  67. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  68. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  69. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  70. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  71. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  72. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  73. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  74. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  75. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  76. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  77. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  78. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  79. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  80. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  81. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  82. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  83. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  84. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  85. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  86. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  87. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  88. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  89. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  90. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  91. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  92. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  93. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  94. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  95. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  96. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  97. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  98. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  99. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  100. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  101. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  102. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  103. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  104. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  105. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  106. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  107. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  108. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  109. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  110. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  111. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  112. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  113. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  114. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  115. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  116. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  117. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  118. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  119. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  120. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  121. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  122. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  123. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  124. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  125. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  126. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  127. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  128. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  129. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  130. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  131. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  132. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  133. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  134. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  135. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  136. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  137. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  138. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  139. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  140. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  141. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  142. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  143. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  144. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  145. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  146. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  147. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  148. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  149. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  150. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940