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Gaston Bachelard
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Gaston Bachelard

French writer and philosopher

Born 27 June 1884 · died 16 October 1962, aged 78
Also known as G. Bachelard

Who was alive at the same time as Gaston Bachelard?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  3. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  4. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  5. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  6. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  7. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  8. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  9. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  10. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  11. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  12. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  13. Gaston Bachelard, 1884 – 1962
  14. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  15. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  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 Gaston Bachelard was born, Albert Einstein was 5, Vladimir Lenin was 14, Mahatma Gandhi was 14, Leo Tolstoy was 55 and Joseph Stalin was 5.

When Gaston Bachelard died, Barack Obama was 1, Donald Trump was 16, Michael Jackson was 4, Vladimir Putin was 10 and Ronald Reagan was 51.

Born during Gaston Bachelard’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela and George W. Bush.

Not quite contemporaries: Karl Marx died about a year before Gaston Bachelard was born, Charles Darwin died about 2 years before Gaston Bachelard was born, Fyodor Dostoevsky died about 3 years before Gaston Bachelard was born and Charles Dickens died about 14 years before Gaston Bachelard was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

3,419 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Gaston Bachelard. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1923.

  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. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  16. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  17. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  18. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  19. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  20. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  21. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  22. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  23. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  24. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  25. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  26. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  27. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  28. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  29. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  30. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  31. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  32. Bill Gates born 1955
  33. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  34. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  35. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  36. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  37. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  38. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  39. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  40. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  41. Bill Clinton born 1946
  42. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  43. Angela Merkel born 1954
  44. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  45. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  46. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  47. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  48. François Hollande born 1954
  49. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  50. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  51. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  52. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  53. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  54. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  55. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  56. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  57. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  58. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  59. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  60. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  61. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  62. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  63. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  64. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  65. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  66. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  67. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  68. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  69. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  70. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  71. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  72. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  73. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  74. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  75. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  76. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  77. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  78. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  79. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  80. Madonna born 1958
  81. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  82. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  83. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  84. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  85. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  86. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  87. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  88. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  89. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  90. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  91. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  92. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  93. Xi Jinping born 1953
  94. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  95. Naruhito born 1960
  96. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  97. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  98. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  99. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  100. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  101. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  102. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  103. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  104. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  105. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  106. Bob Dylan born 1941
  107. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  108. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  109. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  110. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  111. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  112. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  113. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  114. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  115. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  116. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  117. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  118. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  119. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  120. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  121. Charles III born 1948
  122. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  123. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  124. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  125. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  126. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  127. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  128. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  129. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  130. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  131. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  132. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  133. Narendra Modi born 1950
  134. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  135. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  136. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  137. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  138. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  139. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  140. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  141. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  142. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  143. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  144. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  145. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  146. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  147. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  148. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  149. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  150. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935