Who Was Alive

Georges Clemenceau

Prime Minister of France, 1906–1909 and 1917–1920

Born 28 September 1841 · died 24 November 1929, aged 88

Who was alive at the same time as Georges Clemenceau?

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Abraham Lincoln
  3. Charles Darwin
  4. Karl Marx
  5. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  6. Leo Tolstoy
  7. Mark Twain
  8. Georges Clemenceau
  9. Friedrich Nietzsche
  10. Thomas Edison
  11. Vincent van Gogh
  12. Sigmund Freud
  13. Mahatma Gandhi
  14. Vladimir Lenin
  15. Winston Churchill
  16. Joseph Stalin
  17. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  18. Albert Einstein
  19. Pablo Picasso
  20. Charlie Chaplin
  21. Adolf Hitler
  22. Ronald Reagan
  23. Nelson Mandela
  24. Elizabeth II
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When Georges Clemenceau was born, Karl Marx was 23, Abraham Lincoln was 32, Leo Tolstoy was 13, Charles Darwin was 32 and Victor Hugo was 39.

When Georges Clemenceau died, Adolf Hitler was 40, Albert Einstein was 50, Ronald Reagan was 18, Nelson Mandela was 11 and Mahatma Gandhi was 60.

Born during Georges Clemenceau’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Lenin, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin and Vincent van Gogh.

Not quite contemporaries: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died 9 years before Georges Clemenceau was born, Joe Biden was born 13 years after Georges Clemenceau died, Ludwig van Beethoven died 14 years before Georges Clemenceau was born and Alexander Pushkin died 4 years before Georges Clemenceau was born.

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  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  5. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  6. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  7. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  8. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  9. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  10. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  11. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  12. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  13. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  14. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  15. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  16. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  17. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  18. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  19. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  20. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  21. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  22. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  23. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  24. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  25. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  26. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  27. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  28. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  29. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  30. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  31. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  32. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  33. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  34. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  35. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  36. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
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  38. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  39. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  40. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  41. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  42. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
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  44. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
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  48. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
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  52. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
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  54. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  55. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
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  57. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  58. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
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  62. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
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  116. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
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  123. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  124. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  125. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  126. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  127. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  128. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
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