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Charles Péguy
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Charles Péguy

French poet and essayist

Born 7 January 1873 · died 5 September 1914, aged 41
Also known as Pierre Deloire, Pierre Baudouin

Who was alive at the same time as Charles Péguy?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  3. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  4. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  5. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  6. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  7. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  8. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  9. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  10. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  11. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  12. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  13. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  14. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  15. Charles Péguy, 1873 – 1914
  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. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  24. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004

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When Charles Péguy was born, Karl Marx was 54, Vladimir Lenin was 2, Mahatma Gandhi was 3, Leo Tolstoy was 44 and Charles Darwin was 63.

When Charles Péguy died, Adolf Hitler was 25, Albert Einstein was 35, Ronald Reagan was 3, Vladimir Lenin was 44 and Mahatma Gandhi was 44.

Born during Charles Péguy’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Joseph Stalin, Pablo Picasso, Winston Churchill, Charlie Chaplin and Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

Not quite contemporaries: Abraham Lincoln died about 8 years before Charles Péguy was born, Nelson Mandela was born about 4 years after Charles Péguy died, Elizabeth II was born about 12 years after Charles Péguy died and Charles Dickens died about 3 years before Charles Péguy was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,559 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Charles Péguy. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1894.

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  5. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  6. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  7. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  8. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  9. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  10. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  11. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  12. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  13. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  14. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  15. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  16. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  17. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  18. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  20. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  21. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  22. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  23. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  24. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  25. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  26. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  27. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  28. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  29. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  30. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  31. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  32. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  33. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  34. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  35. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  36. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  37. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  38. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  39. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  40. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  41. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  42. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  43. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  44. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  45. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  46. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  47. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  48. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  49. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  50. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  51. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  52. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  53. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  54. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  55. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  56. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  57. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  58. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  59. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  60. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  61. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  62. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  63. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  64. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  65. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  66. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  67. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  68. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  69. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  70. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  71. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  72. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  73. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  74. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  75. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  76. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  77. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  78. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  79. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  80. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  81. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  82. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  83. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  84. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  85. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  86. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  87. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  88. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  89. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  90. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  91. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  92. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  93. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  94. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  95. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  96. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  97. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  98. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  99. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  100. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  101. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  102. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  103. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  104. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  105. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  106. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  107. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  108. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  109. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  110. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  111. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  112. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  113. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  114. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  115. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  116. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  117. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  118. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  119. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  120. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  121. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  122. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  123. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  124. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  125. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  126. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  127. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  128. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  129. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  130. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  131. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  132. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  133. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  134. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  135. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  136. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  137. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  138. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  139. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  140. William Faulkner 1897 – 1962
  141. John Steinbeck 1902 – 1968
  142. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  143. Sergei Eisenstein 1898 – 1948
  144. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  145. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  146. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  147. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  148. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  149. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  150. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875