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François Duvalier
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François Duvalier

Haitian politician who served as President of Haiti

Born 14 April 1907 · died 21 April 1971, aged 64
Also known as Papa Doc

Who was alive at the same time as François Duvalier?

  1. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  2. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  3. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  4. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  5. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  6. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  7. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  8. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  9. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  10. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  11. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  12. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  13. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  14. François Duvalier, 1907 – 1971
  15. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  16. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  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

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 François Duvalier was born, Adolf Hitler was 17, Albert Einstein was 28, Vladimir Lenin was 36, Mahatma Gandhi was 37 and Leo Tolstoy was 78.

When François Duvalier died, Barack Obama was 9, Donald Trump was 24, Michael Jackson was 12, Vladimir Putin was 18 and Ronald Reagan was 60.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Friedrich Nietzsche died about 7 years before François Duvalier was born, Anton Chekhov died about 3 years before François Duvalier was born, Shakira was born about 6 years after François Duvalier died and Oscar Wilde died about 7 years before François Duvalier was born.

What happened in François Duvalier’s lifetime

Where François Duvalier’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

3,650 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as François Duvalier. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1939.

  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. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  19. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  21. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  22. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  23. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  24. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  25. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  26. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  27. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  28. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  29. Bill Gates born 1955
  30. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  31. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  32. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  33. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  34. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  35. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  36. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  37. Bill Clinton born 1946
  38. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  39. Angela Merkel born 1954
  40. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  41. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  42. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  43. François Hollande born 1954
  44. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  45. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  46. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  47. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  48. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  49. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  50. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  51. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  52. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  53. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  54. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  55. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  56. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  57. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  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. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  76. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  77. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  78. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  79. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  80. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  81. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  82. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  83. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  84. Xi Jinping born 1953
  85. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  86. Naruhito born 1960
  87. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  88. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  89. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  90. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  91. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  92. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  93. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  94. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  95. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  96. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  97. Bob Dylan born 1941
  98. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  99. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  100. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  101. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  102. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  103. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  104. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  105. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  106. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  107. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  108. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  109. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  110. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  111. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  112. Charles III born 1948
  113. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  114. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  115. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  116. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  117. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  118. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  119. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  120. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  121. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  122. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  123. Narendra Modi born 1950
  124. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  125. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  126. Rafael Correa born 1963
  127. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  128. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  129. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  130. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  131. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  132. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  133. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  134. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  135. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  136. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  137. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  138. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  139. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  140. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  141. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  142. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  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