Who Was Alive
J. Paul Getty
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J. Paul Getty

American industrialist and art collector

Born 15 December 1892 · died 6 June 1976, aged 83
Also known as Jay Paul Getty, Jean Paul Getty, Paul Getty

Who was alive at the same time as J. Paul Getty?

  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. J. Paul Getty, 1892 – 1976
  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

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When J. Paul Getty was born, Adolf Hitler was 3, Albert Einstein was 13, Vladimir Lenin was 22, Mahatma Gandhi was 23 and Leo Tolstoy was 64.

When J. Paul Getty died, Barack Obama was 14, Donald Trump was 29, Michael Jackson was 17, Vladimir Putin was 23 and Ronald Reagan was 65.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Karl Marx died about 9 years before J. Paul Getty was born, Charles Darwin died about 10 years before J. Paul Getty was born, Victor Hugo died about 7 years before J. Paul Getty was born and Vincent van Gogh died about 2 years before J. Paul Getty was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

4,005 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as J. Paul Getty. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1934.

  1. Barack Obama born 1961
  2. Donald Trump born 1946
  3. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  4. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  5. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  6. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  7. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  8. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  9. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  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. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  26. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  27. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  28. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  29. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  30. Bill Gates born 1955
  31. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  32. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  33. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  34. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  35. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  36. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  37. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  38. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  39. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  40. Bill Clinton born 1946
  41. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  42. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  43. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  44. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  45. Angela Merkel born 1954
  46. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  47. François Hollande born 1954
  48. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  49. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  50. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  51. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  52. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  53. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  54. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  55. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  56. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  57. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  58. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  59. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  60. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  61. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  62. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  63. Elon Musk born 1971
  64. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  65. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  66. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  67. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  68. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  69. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  70. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  71. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  72. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  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. Madonna born 1958
  80. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  81. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  82. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  83. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  84. Kamala Harris born 1964
  85. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  86. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  87. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  88. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  89. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  90. Xi Jinping born 1953
  91. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  92. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  93. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  94. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  95. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  96. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  97. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  98. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  99. Naruhito born 1960
  100. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  101. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  102. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  103. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  104. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  105. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  106. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  107. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  108. Bob Dylan born 1941
  109. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  110. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  111. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  112. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  113. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  114. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  115. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  116. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  117. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  118. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  119. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  120. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  121. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  122. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  123. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  124. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  125. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  126. Charles III born 1948
  127. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  128. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  129. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  130. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  131. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  132. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  133. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  134. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  135. Eminem born 1972
  136. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  137. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  138. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  139. Narendra Modi born 1950
  140. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  141. Rafael Correa born 1963
  142. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  143. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  144. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  145. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  146. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  147. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  148. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  149. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  150. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944