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Frédéric Joliot-Curie
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Frédéric Joliot-Curie

French scientist and physicist

Born 19 March 1900 · died 14 August 1958, aged 58
Also known as Frederic Joliot, Frédéric Joliot, Frederic Joliot-Curie

Who was alive at the same time as Frédéric Joliot-Curie?

  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. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  7. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  8. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  9. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  10. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  11. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  12. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  13. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  14. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  15. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  16. Frédéric Joliot-Curie, 1900 – 1958
  17. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  18. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  19. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  20. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  21. Joe Biden, born 1942
  22. Donald Trump, born 1946
  23. George W. Bush, born 1946
  24. Vladimir Putin, born 1952

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When Frédéric Joliot-Curie was born, Adolf Hitler was 10, Albert Einstein was 21, Vladimir Lenin was 29, Mahatma Gandhi was 30 and Leo Tolstoy was 71.

When Frédéric Joliot-Curie died, Donald Trump was 12, Vladimir Putin was 5, Ronald Reagan was 47, Nelson Mandela was 40 and George W. Bush was 12.

Born during Frédéric Joliot-Curie’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 3 years after Frédéric Joliot-Curie died, Michael Jackson was born months after Frédéric Joliot-Curie died, Victor Hugo died about 15 years before Frédéric Joliot-Curie was born and Vincent van Gogh died about 10 years before Frédéric Joliot-Curie was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

3,114 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Frédéric Joliot-Curie. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1929.

  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. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  17. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  18. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  19. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  21. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  22. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  23. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  24. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  25. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  26. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  27. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  28. Bill Gates born 1955
  29. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  30. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  31. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  32. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  33. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  34. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  35. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  36. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  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. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  74. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  75. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  76. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  77. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  78. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  79. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  80. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  81. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  82. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  83. Xi Jinping born 1953
  84. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  85. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  86. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  87. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  88. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  89. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  90. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  91. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  92. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  93. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  94. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  95. Bob Dylan born 1941
  96. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  97. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  98. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  99. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  100. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  101. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  102. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  103. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  104. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  105. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  106. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  107. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  108. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  109. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  110. Charles III born 1948
  111. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  112. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  113. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  114. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  115. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  116. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  117. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  118. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  119. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  120. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  121. Narendra Modi born 1950
  122. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  123. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  124. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  125. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  126. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  127. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  128. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  129. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  130. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  131. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  132. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  133. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  134. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  135. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  136. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  137. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  138. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  139. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  140. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  141. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  142. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  143. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  144. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  145. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  146. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  147. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  148. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  149. Shinzo Abe 1954 – 2022
  150. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964