Who Was Alive
Django Reinhardt
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Django Reinhardt

French jazz musician

Born 23 January 1910 · died 16 May 1953, aged 43
Also known as Jean B. Reinhardt, Jiango Renard, Django Reinhart

Who was alive at the same time as Django Reinhardt?

  1. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  2. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  3. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  4. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  5. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  6. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  7. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  8. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  9. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  10. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  11. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  12. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  13. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  14. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  15. Django Reinhardt, 1910 – 1953
  16. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  17. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  18. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  19. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  20. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968
  21. Joe Biden, born 1942
  22. Donald Trump, born 1946
  23. George W. Bush, born 1946
  24. Vladimir Putin, born 1952

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 Django Reinhardt was born, Adolf Hitler was 20, Albert Einstein was 30, Vladimir Lenin was 39, Mahatma Gandhi was 40 and Leo Tolstoy was 81.

When Django Reinhardt died, Donald Trump was 6, Albert Einstein was 74, Vladimir Putin was under a year old, Ronald Reagan was 42 and Nelson Mandela was 34.

Born during Django Reinhardt’s lifetime: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Elizabeth II and John F. Kennedy.

Not quite contemporaries: Barack Obama was born about 8 years after Django Reinhardt died, Michael Jackson was born about 5 years after Django Reinhardt died, Friedrich Nietzsche died about 10 years before Django Reinhardt was born and Bill Gates was born about 2 years after Django Reinhardt died.

What happened in Django Reinhardt’s lifetime

Where Django Reinhardt’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,813 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Django Reinhardt. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1932.

  1. Donald Trump born 1946
  2. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  3. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  4. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  5. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  6. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  7. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  8. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  9. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  10. George W. Bush born 1946
  11. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  12. Joe Biden born 1942
  13. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  14. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  15. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  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. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  29. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  30. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  31. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  32. Bill Clinton born 1946
  33. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  34. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  35. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  36. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  37. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  38. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  39. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  40. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  41. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  42. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  43. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  44. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  45. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  46. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  47. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  48. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  49. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  50. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  51. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  52. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  53. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  54. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  55. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  56. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  57. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  58. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  59. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  60. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  61. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  62. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  63. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  64. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  65. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  66. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  67. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  68. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  69. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  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. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  77. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  78. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  79. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  80. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  81. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  82. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  83. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  84. Bob Dylan born 1941
  85. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  86. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  87. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  88. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  89. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  90. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  91. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  92. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  93. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  94. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  95. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  96. Charles III born 1948
  97. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  98. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  99. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  100. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  101. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  102. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  103. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  104. Narendra Modi born 1950
  105. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  106. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  107. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  108. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  109. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  110. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  111. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  112. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  113. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  114. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  115. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  116. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  117. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  118. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  119. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  120. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  121. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  122. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  123. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  124. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  125. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  126. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  127. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  128. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  129. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  130. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  131. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  132. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  133. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  134. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  135. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  136. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  137. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  138. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  139. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  140. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  141. Robin Williams 1951 – 2014
  142. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  143. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  144. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  145. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  146. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  147. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  148. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  149. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  150. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923