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Clarice Lispector
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Clarice Lispector

Writer and journalist

Born 10 December 1920 · died 9 December 1977, aged 56
Also known as Helen Palmer, Teresa Quadros

Who was alive at the same time as Clarice Lispector?

  1. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  2. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  3. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  4. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  5. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  6. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  7. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  8. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  9. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  10. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  11. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  12. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  13. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  14. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  15. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  16. Clarice Lispector, 1920 – 1977
  17. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  18. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968
  19. Joe Biden, born 1942
  20. Donald Trump, born 1946
  21. George W. Bush, born 1946
  22. Vladimir Putin, born 1952
  23. Michael Jackson, 1958 – 2009
  24. Barack Obama, born 1961

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When Clarice Lispector was born, Adolf Hitler was 31, Albert Einstein was 41, Ronald Reagan was 9, Vladimir Lenin was 50 and Nelson Mandela was 2.

When Clarice Lispector died, Barack Obama was 16, Donald Trump was 31, Michael Jackson was 19, Vladimir Putin was 25 and Ronald Reagan was 66.

Born during Clarice Lispector’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Elizabeth II and Martin Luther King Jr..

Not quite contemporaries: Leo Tolstoy died about 10 years before Clarice Lispector was born, Mark Twain died about 10 years before Clarice Lispector was born, Lionel Messi was born about 10 years after Clarice Lispector died and Corbin Bleu was born about 12 years after Clarice Lispector died.

What happened in Clarice Lispector’s lifetime

Where Clarice Lispector’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

3,760 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Clarice Lispector. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1949.

  1. Barack Obama born 1961
  2. Donald Trump born 1946
  3. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  4. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  5. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  6. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  7. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  8. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  9. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  10. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  11. George W. Bush born 1946
  12. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  13. Joe Biden born 1942
  14. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  15. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  16. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  17. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  18. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  19. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  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. Bill Gates born 1955
  28. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  29. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  30. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  31. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  32. Shakira born 1977
  33. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  34. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  35. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  36. Bill Clinton born 1946
  37. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  38. Angela Merkel born 1954
  39. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  40. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  41. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  42. François Hollande born 1954
  43. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  44. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  45. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  46. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  47. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  48. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  49. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  50. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  51. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  52. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  53. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  54. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  55. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  56. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  57. Elon Musk born 1971
  58. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  59. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  60. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  61. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  62. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  63. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  64. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  65. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  66. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  67. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  68. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  69. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  70. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  71. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  72. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  73. Madonna born 1958
  74. Kamala Harris born 1964
  75. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  76. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  77. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  78. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  79. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  80. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  81. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  82. Xi Jinping born 1953
  83. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  84. Naruhito born 1960
  85. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  86. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  87. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  88. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  89. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  90. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  91. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  92. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  93. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  94. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  95. Bob Dylan born 1941
  96. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  97. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  98. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  99. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  100. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  101. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  102. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  103. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  104. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  105. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  106. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  107. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  108. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  109. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  110. Charles III born 1948
  111. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  112. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  113. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  114. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  115. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  116. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  117. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  118. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  119. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  120. Eminem born 1972
  121. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  122. Narendra Modi born 1950
  123. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  124. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  125. Rafael Correa born 1963
  126. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  127. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  128. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  129. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  130. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  131. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  132. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  133. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  134. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  135. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  136. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  137. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  138. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  139. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  140. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  141. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  142. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  143. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  144. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  145. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  146. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  147. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  148. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  149. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  150. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023