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Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio

French writer and Nobel Prize winner

Born 13 April 1940 · living, 86 as of September 2026

Who was alive at the same time as Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio?

  1. Rabindranath Tagore
  2. Mahatma Gandhi
  3. Winston Churchill
  4. Joseph Stalin
  5. Albert Einstein
  6. Pablo Picasso
  7. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  8. Charlie Chaplin
  9. Adolf Hitler
  10. Salvador Dalí
  11. Ronald Reagan
  12. John F. Kennedy
  13. Nelson Mandela
  14. Elizabeth II
  15. Marilyn Monroe
  16. Martin Luther King Jr.
  17. Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
  18. Joe Biden
  19. Donald Trump
  20. George W. Bush
  21. Vladimir Putin
  22. Bill Gates
  23. Michael Jackson
  24. Barack Obama
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When Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio was born, Adolf Hitler was 50, Albert Einstein was 61, Ronald Reagan was 29, Nelson Mandela was 21 and Mahatma Gandhi was 70.

Born during Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Bill Gates and Jimmy Wales.

Not quite contemporaries: Thomas Edison died 9 years before Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio was born, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk died 2 years before Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio was born, Sigmund Freud died about a year before Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio was born and Marie Curie died 6 years before Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio was born.

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  5. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
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  7. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  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. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  18. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  19. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  20. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  21. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  22. Bill Gates born 1955
  23. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  24. Jimmy Wales born 1966
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  134. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
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