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France Gall
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France Gall

French singer

Born 9 October 1947 · died 7 January 2018, aged 70

Who was alive at the same time as France Gall?

  1. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  2. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  3. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  4. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  5. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  6. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  7. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  8. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  9. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  10. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  11. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  12. Marilyn Monroe, 1926 – 1962
  13. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968
  14. Pope Francis, 1936 – 2025
  15. Joe Biden, born 1942
  16. Donald Trump, born 1946
  17. George W. Bush, born 1946
  18. France Gall, 1947 – 2018
  19. Vladimir Putin, born 1952
  20. Bill Gates, born 1955
  21. Michael Jackson, 1958 – 2009
  22. Barack Obama, born 1961
  23. Jimmy Wales, born 1966
  24. Shakira, born 1977

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When France Gall was born, Donald Trump was 1, Albert Einstein was 68, Ronald Reagan was 36, Nelson Mandela was 29 and Mahatma Gandhi was 78.

When France Gall died, Barack Obama was 56, Donald Trump was 71, Vladimir Putin was 65, George W. Bush was 71 and Joe Biden was 75.

Born during France Gall’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Bill Gates, Jimmy Wales, Shakira, Steve Jobs and Lionel Messi.

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler died about 2 years before France Gall was born, Sigmund Freud died about 8 years before France Gall was born, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk died about 9 years before France Gall was born and Marie Curie died about 13 years before France Gall was born.

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Where France Gall’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

4,131 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as France Gall. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1983.

  1. Barack Obama born 1961
  2. Donald Trump born 1946
  3. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  4. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  5. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  6. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  7. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  8. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  9. George W. Bush born 1946
  10. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  11. Joe Biden born 1942
  12. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  13. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  14. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  15. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  16. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  17. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  18. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  19. Bill Gates born 1955
  20. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  21. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  22. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  23. Shakira born 1977
  24. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  25. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  26. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  27. Lionel Messi born 1987
  28. Corbin Bleu born 1989
  29. Bill Clinton born 1946
  30. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  31. Basshunter born 1984
  32. Angela Merkel born 1954
  33. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  34. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  35. François Hollande born 1954
  36. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  37. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  38. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  39. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  40. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  41. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  42. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  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. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  50. Elon Musk born 1971
  51. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  52. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  53. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  54. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  55. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  56. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  57. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  58. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  59. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  60. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  61. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  62. Lady Gaga born 1986
  63. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  64. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  65. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  66. Madonna born 1958
  67. Kamala Harris born 1964
  68. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  69. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  70. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  71. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  72. Xi Jinping born 1953
  73. Naruhito born 1960
  74. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  75. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  76. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  77. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  78. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  79. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  80. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  81. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  82. Bob Dylan born 1941
  83. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  84. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  85. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  86. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  87. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  88. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  89. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  90. Justin Bieber born 1994
  91. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  92. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  93. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  94. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  95. Taylor Swift born 1989
  96. Charles III born 1948
  97. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  98. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  99. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  100. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  101. Kim Jong Un born 1984
  102. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  103. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  104. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  105. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  106. Eminem born 1972
  107. Beyoncé born 1981
  108. Selena Gomez born 1992
  109. Narendra Modi born 1950
  110. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  111. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  112. Rafael Correa born 1963
  113. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  114. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  115. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  116. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  117. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  118. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  119. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  120. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  121. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  122. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  123. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  124. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  125. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  126. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  127. Mark Zuckerberg born 1984
  128. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  129. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  130. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  131. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  132. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  133. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  134. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  135. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  136. Shinzo Abe 1954 – 2022
  137. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  138. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  139. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  140. Tim Berners-Lee born 1955
  141. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  142. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  143. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  144. Jackie Chan born 1954
  145. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  146. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  147. Robin Williams 1951 – 2014
  148. Guillermo Lasso born 1955
  149. Celine Dion born 1968
  150. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994