Who Was Alive
Carole Lombard
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Carole Lombard

American actor

Born 6 October 1908 · died 16 January 1942, aged 33
Also known as Jane Alice Peters

Who was alive at the same time as Carole Lombard?

  1. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  2. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  3. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  4. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  5. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  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. Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1882 – 1945
  15. Franz Kafka, 1883 – 1924
  16. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  17. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  18. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  19. Carole Lombard, 1908 – 1942
  20. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  21. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  22. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  23. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  24. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968

Drag across the timeline, or use the arrow keys, to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Dashed lines mark world events. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Carole Lombard was born, Adolf Hitler was 19, Albert Einstein was 29, Vladimir Lenin was 38, Mahatma Gandhi was 39 and Leo Tolstoy was 80.

When Carole Lombard died, Adolf Hitler was 52, Albert Einstein was 62, Ronald Reagan was 30, Nelson Mandela was 23 and Mahatma Gandhi was 72.

Born during Carole Lombard’s lifetime: Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Marilyn Monroe, Pope Francis and Che Guevara.

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born about 4 years after Carole Lombard died, Vladimir Putin was born about 10 years after Carole Lombard died, George W. Bush was born about 4 years after Carole Lombard died and Joe Biden was born months after Carole Lombard died.

What happened in Carole Lombard’s lifetime

Where Carole Lombard’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,261 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Carole Lombard. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1925.

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  4. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  5. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  6. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  7. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  8. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  9. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  10. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  11. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  12. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  13. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  14. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  15. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  16. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  17. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  18. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  19. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  20. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  21. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  22. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  23. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  24. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  25. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  26. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  27. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  28. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  29. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  30. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  31. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  32. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  33. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  34. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  35. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  36. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  37. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  38. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  39. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  40. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  41. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  42. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  43. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  44. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  45. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  46. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  47. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  48. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  49. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  50. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  51. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  52. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  53. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  54. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  55. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  56. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  57. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  58. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  59. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  60. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  61. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  62. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  63. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  64. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  65. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  66. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  67. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  68. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  69. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  70. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  71. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  72. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  73. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  74. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  75. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  76. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  77. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  78. Bob Dylan born 1941
  79. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  80. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  81. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  82. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  83. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  84. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  85. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  86. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  87. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  88. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  89. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  90. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  91. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  92. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  93. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  94. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  95. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  96. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  97. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  98. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  99. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  100. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  101. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  102. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  103. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  104. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  105. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  106. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  107. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  108. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  109. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  110. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  111. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  112. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  113. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  114. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  115. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  116. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  117. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  118. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  119. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  120. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  121. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  122. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  123. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  124. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  125. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  126. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  127. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  128. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  129. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  130. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  131. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  132. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  133. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  134. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  135. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  136. Woody Allen born 1935
  137. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  138. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  139. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  140. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  141. Yasser Arafat 1929 – 2004
  142. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  143. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  144. Judy Garland 1922 – 1969
  145. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  146. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  147. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  148. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  149. Brigitte Bardot 1934 – 2025
  150. Hebe Camargo 1929 – 2012