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Edmond Rostand
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Edmond Rostand

French poet and playwright

Born 1 April 1868 · died 2 December 1918, aged 50
Also known as Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand

Who was alive at the same time as Edmond Rostand?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  3. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  4. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  5. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  6. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  7. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  8. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  9. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  10. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  11. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  12. Edmond Rostand, 1868 – 1918
  13. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  14. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  15. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  16. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  17. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  18. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  19. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  20. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  21. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  22. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  23. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  24. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013

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When Edmond Rostand was born, Karl Marx was 49, Leo Tolstoy was 39, Charles Darwin was 59, Victor Hugo was 66 and Vincent van Gogh was 15.

When Edmond Rostand died, Adolf Hitler was 29, Albert Einstein was 39, Ronald Reagan was 7, Vladimir Lenin was 48 and Nelson Mandela was under a year old.

Born during Edmond Rostand’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Lenin, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin and Pablo Picasso.

Not quite contemporaries: Abraham Lincoln died about 3 years before Edmond Rostand was born, Elizabeth II was born about 8 years after Edmond Rostand died, Martin Luther King Jr. was born about 11 years after Edmond Rostand died and Marilyn Monroe was born about 8 years after Edmond Rostand died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,673 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Edmond Rostand. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1893.

  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. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  7. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  8. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  9. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  10. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  11. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  12. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  13. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  14. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  15. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  16. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  17. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  18. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  19. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  21. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  22. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  23. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  24. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  25. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  26. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  27. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  28. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  29. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  30. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  31. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  32. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  33. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  34. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  35. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  36. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  37. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  38. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  39. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  40. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  41. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  42. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  43. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  44. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  45. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  46. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  47. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  48. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  49. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  50. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  51. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  52. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  53. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  54. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  55. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  56. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  57. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  58. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  59. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  60. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  61. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  62. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  63. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  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. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  71. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  72. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  73. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  74. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  75. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  76. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  77. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  78. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  79. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  80. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  81. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  82. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  83. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  84. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  85. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  86. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  87. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  88. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  89. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  90. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  91. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  92. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  93. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  94. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  95. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  96. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  97. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  98. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  99. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  100. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  101. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  102. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  103. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  104. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  105. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  106. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  107. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  108. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  109. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  110. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  111. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  112. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  113. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  114. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  115. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  116. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  117. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  118. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  119. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  120. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  121. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  122. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  123. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  124. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  125. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  126. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  127. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  128. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  129. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  130. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  131. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  132. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  133. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  134. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  135. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  136. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  137. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  138. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  139. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  140. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  141. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  142. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  143. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  144. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  145. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  146. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  147. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  148. John Steinbeck 1902 – 1968
  149. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  150. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930