Who Was Alive

Jacques Cousteau

French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author

Born 11 June 1910 · died 25 June 1997, aged 87

Who was alive at the same time as Jacques Cousteau?

  1. Leo Tolstoy
  2. Thomas Edison
  3. Sigmund Freud
  4. Marie Curie
  5. Mahatma Gandhi
  6. Vladimir Lenin
  7. Winston Churchill
  8. Joseph Stalin
  9. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  10. Albert Einstein
  11. Pablo Picasso
  12. Charlie Chaplin
  13. Adolf Hitler
  14. Jacques Cousteau
  15. Ronald Reagan
  16. John F. Kennedy
  17. Nelson Mandela
  18. Elizabeth II
  19. Joe Biden
  20. Donald Trump
  21. George W. Bush
  22. Vladimir Putin
  23. Michael Jackson
  24. Barack Obama
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When Jacques Cousteau was born, Adolf Hitler was 21, Albert Einstein was 31, Vladimir Lenin was 40, Mahatma Gandhi was 40 and Leo Tolstoy was 81.

When Jacques Cousteau died, Barack Obama was 35, Donald Trump was 51, Michael Jackson was 38, Vladimir Putin was 44 and Ronald Reagan was 86.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Friedrich Nietzsche died 10 years before Jacques Cousteau was born, Mark Twain died months before Jacques Cousteau was born, Anton Chekhov died 6 years before Jacques Cousteau was born and Oscar Wilde died 10 years before Jacques Cousteau was born.

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  8. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  9. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  10. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  11. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
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  13. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
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  18. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
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