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Gérard Philipe
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Gérard Philipe

French actor

Born 4 December 1922 · died 25 November 1959, aged 36
Also known as Gerard Philipe, Gerard Albert Philip

Who was alive at the same time as Gérard Philipe?

  1. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  2. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  3. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  4. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  5. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  6. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  7. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  8. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  9. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  10. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  11. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  12. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  13. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  14. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  15. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  16. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  17. Gérard Philipe, 1922 – 1959
  18. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  19. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968
  20. Joe Biden, born 1942
  21. Donald Trump, born 1946
  22. George W. Bush, born 1946
  23. Vladimir Putin, born 1952
  24. Michael Jackson, 1958 – 2009

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When Gérard Philipe was born, Adolf Hitler was 33, Albert Einstein was 43, Ronald Reagan was 11, Vladimir Lenin was 52 and Nelson Mandela was 4.

When Gérard Philipe died, Donald Trump was 13, Michael Jackson was 1, Vladimir Putin was 7, Ronald Reagan was 48 and Nelson Mandela was 41.

Born during Gérard Philipe’s lifetime: Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Elizabeth II, Martin Luther King Jr. and Bill Gates.

Not quite contemporaries: Barack Obama was born about 2 years after Gérard Philipe died, Leo Tolstoy died about 12 years before Gérard Philipe was born, Mark Twain died about 12 years before Gérard Philipe was born and Jimmy Wales was born about 7 years after Gérard Philipe died.

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Where Gérard Philipe’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,947 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Gérard Philipe. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1941.

  1. Donald Trump born 1946
  2. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  3. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  4. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  5. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  6. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  7. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  8. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  9. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  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. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  17. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  18. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  20. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  21. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  22. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  23. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  24. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  25. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  26. Bill Gates born 1955
  27. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  28. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  29. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  30. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  31. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  32. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  33. Bill Clinton born 1946
  34. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  35. Angela Merkel born 1954
  36. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  37. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  38. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  39. François Hollande born 1954
  40. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  41. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  42. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  43. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  44. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  45. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  46. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  47. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  48. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  49. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  50. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  51. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  52. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  53. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  54. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  55. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  56. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  57. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  58. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  59. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  60. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  61. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  62. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  63. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  64. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  65. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  66. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  67. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  68. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  69. Madonna born 1958
  70. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  71. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  72. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  73. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  74. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  75. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  76. Xi Jinping born 1953
  77. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  78. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  79. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  80. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  81. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  82. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  83. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  84. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  85. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  86. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  87. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  88. Bob Dylan born 1941
  89. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  90. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  91. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  92. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  93. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  94. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  95. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  96. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  97. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  98. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  99. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  100. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  101. Charles III born 1948
  102. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  103. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  104. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  105. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  106. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  107. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  108. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  109. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  110. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  111. Narendra Modi born 1950
  112. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  113. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  114. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  115. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  116. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  117. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  118. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  119. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  120. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  121. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  122. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  123. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  124. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  125. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  126. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  127. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  128. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  129. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  130. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  131. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  132. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  133. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  134. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  135. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  136. Shinzo Abe 1954 – 2022
  137. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  138. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  139. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  140. Tim Berners-Lee born 1955
  141. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  142. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  143. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  144. Jackie Chan born 1954
  145. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  146. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  147. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  148. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  149. Robin Williams 1951 – 2014
  150. Guillermo Lasso born 1955