Who Was Alive
Gloria Swanson
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Gloria Swanson

American actor

Born 27 March 1899 · died 4 April 1983, aged 84
Also known as Josephine Swenson, Gloria Josephine May Swanson, Gloria Mae Swanson

Who was alive at the same time as Gloria Swanson?

  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. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  7. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  8. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  9. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  10. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  11. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  12. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  13. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  14. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  15. Gloria Swanson, 1899 – 1983
  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

Drag across the timeline, or use the arrow keys, to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Dashed lines mark world events. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Gloria Swanson was born, Adolf Hitler was 9, Albert Einstein was 20, Vladimir Lenin was 28, Mahatma Gandhi was 29 and Leo Tolstoy was 70.

When Gloria Swanson died, Barack Obama was 21, Donald Trump was 36, Michael Jackson was 24, Vladimir Putin was 30 and Ronald Reagan was 72.

Born during Gloria Swanson’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush and Joe Biden.

Not quite contemporaries: Victor Hugo died about 14 years before Gloria Swanson was born, Vincent van Gogh died about 9 years before Gloria Swanson was born, Lionel Messi was born about 4 years after Gloria Swanson died and Corbin Bleu was born about 6 years after Gloria Swanson died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

4,175 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Gloria Swanson. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1941.

  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. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  16. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  17. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  18. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  19. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  20. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  21. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  22. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  23. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  24. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  25. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  26. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  27. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  28. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  29. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  30. Bill Gates born 1955
  31. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  32. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  33. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  34. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  35. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  36. Shakira born 1977
  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. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  45. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  46. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  47. François Hollande born 1954
  48. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  49. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  50. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  51. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  52. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  53. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  54. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  55. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  56. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  57. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  58. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  59. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  60. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  61. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  62. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  63. Elon Musk born 1971
  64. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  65. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  66. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  67. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  68. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  69. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  70. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  71. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  72. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  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. Kamala Harris born 1964
  82. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  83. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  84. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  85. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  86. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  87. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  88. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  89. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  90. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  91. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  92. Xi Jinping born 1953
  93. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  94. Naruhito born 1960
  95. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  96. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  97. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  98. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  99. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  100. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  101. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  102. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  103. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  104. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  105. Bob Dylan born 1941
  106. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  107. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  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. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  116. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  117. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  118. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  119. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  120. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  121. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  122. Charles III born 1948
  123. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  124. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  125. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  126. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  127. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  128. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  129. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  130. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  131. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  132. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  133. Eminem born 1972
  134. Beyoncé born 1981
  135. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  136. Narendra Modi born 1950
  137. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  138. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  139. Rafael Correa born 1963
  140. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  141. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  142. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  143. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  144. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  145. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  146. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  147. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  148. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  149. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  150. Michael Schumacher born 1969