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Ernst Jünger
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Ernst Jünger

German writer

Born 29 March 1895 · died 17 February 1998, aged 102

Who was alive at the same time as Ernst Jünger?

  1. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  2. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  3. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  4. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  5. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  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. Ernst Jünger, 1895 – 1998
  16. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  17. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  18. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  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 Ernst Jünger was born, Adolf Hitler was 5, Albert Einstein was 16, Vladimir Lenin was 24, Mahatma Gandhi was 25 and Leo Tolstoy was 66.

When Ernst Jünger died, Barack Obama was 36, Donald Trump was 51, Michael Jackson was 39, Vladimir Putin was 45 and Ronald Reagan was 87.

Born during Ernst Jünger’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush and Joe Biden.

Not quite contemporaries: Karl Marx died about 12 years before Ernst Jünger was born, Charles Darwin died about 13 years before Ernst Jünger was born, Victor Hugo died about 10 years before Ernst Jünger was born and Vincent van Gogh died about 5 years before Ernst Jünger was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

4,671 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Ernst Jünger. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1947.

  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. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  12. George W. Bush born 1946
  13. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  14. Joe Biden born 1942
  15. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  16. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  17. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  18. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  19. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  20. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  21. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  22. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  23. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  24. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  25. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  26. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  27. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  28. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  29. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  30. Bill Gates born 1955
  31. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  32. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  33. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  34. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  35. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  36. Shakira born 1977
  37. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  38. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  39. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  40. Lionel Messi born 1987
  41. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  42. Corbin Bleu born 1989
  43. Bill Clinton born 1946
  44. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  45. Basshunter born 1984
  46. Angela Merkel born 1954
  47. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  48. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  49. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  50. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  51. François Hollande born 1954
  52. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  53. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  54. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  55. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  56. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  57. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  58. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  59. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  60. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  61. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  62. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  63. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  64. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  65. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  66. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  67. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  68. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  69. Elon Musk born 1971
  70. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  71. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  72. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  73. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  74. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  75. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  76. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  77. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  78. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  79. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  80. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  81. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  82. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  83. Lady Gaga born 1986
  84. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  85. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  86. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  87. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  88. Madonna born 1958
  89. Kamala Harris born 1964
  90. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  91. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  92. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  93. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  94. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  95. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  96. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  97. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  98. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  99. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  100. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  101. Xi Jinping born 1953
  102. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  103. Naruhito born 1960
  104. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  105. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  106. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  107. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  108. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  109. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  110. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  111. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  112. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  113. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  114. Bob Dylan born 1941
  115. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  116. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  117. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  118. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  119. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  120. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  121. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  122. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  123. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  124. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  125. Justin Bieber born 1994
  126. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  127. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  128. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  129. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  130. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  131. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  132. Taylor Swift born 1989
  133. Charles III born 1948
  134. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  135. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  136. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  137. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  138. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  139. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  140. Kim Jong Un born 1984
  141. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  142. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  143. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  144. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  145. Eminem born 1972
  146. Beyoncé born 1981
  147. Selena Gomez born 1992
  148. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  149. Narendra Modi born 1950
  150. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951