Who Was Alive

Georges Pompidou

President of France from 1969 to 1974

Born 5 July 1911 · died 2 April 1974, aged 62

Who was alive at the same time as Georges Pompidou?

  1. Thomas Edison
  2. Sigmund Freud
  3. Marie Curie
  4. Mahatma Gandhi
  5. Vladimir Lenin
  6. Winston Churchill
  7. Joseph Stalin
  8. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  9. Albert Einstein
  10. Pablo Picasso
  11. Charlie Chaplin
  12. Adolf Hitler
  13. Ronald Reagan
  14. Georges Pompidou
  15. John F. Kennedy
  16. Nelson Mandela
  17. Elizabeth II
  18. Martin Luther King Jr.
  19. Joe Biden
  20. Donald Trump
  21. George W. Bush
  22. Vladimir Putin
  23. Michael Jackson
  24. Barack Obama
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When Georges Pompidou was born, Adolf Hitler was 22, Albert Einstein was 32, Ronald Reagan was under a year old, Vladimir Lenin was 41 and Mahatma Gandhi was 41.

When Georges Pompidou died, Barack Obama was 12, Donald Trump was 27, Michael Jackson was 15, Vladimir Putin was 21 and Ronald Reagan was 63.

Born during Georges Pompidou’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush, Joe Biden and Elizabeth II.

Not quite contemporaries: Leo Tolstoy died about a year before Georges Pompidou was born, Friedrich Nietzsche died 11 years before Georges Pompidou was born, Mark Twain died about a year before Georges Pompidou was born and Anton Chekhov died 7 years before Georges Pompidou was born.

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  9. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  10. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  11. George W. Bush born 1946
  12. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
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  15. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
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  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  21. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
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