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Jean Genet
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Jean Genet

French novelist and playwright

Born 19 December 1910 · died 14–15 April 1986, aged 75

Who was alive at the same time as Jean Genet?

  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. Jean Genet, 1910 – 1986
  14. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  15. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  16. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  17. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  18. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968
  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 Jean Genet was born, Adolf Hitler was 21, Albert Einstein was 31, Vladimir Lenin was 40, Mahatma Gandhi was 41 and Joseph Stalin was 32.

When Jean Genet died, Barack Obama was 24, Donald Trump was 39, Michael Jackson was 27, Vladimir Putin was 33 and Ronald Reagan was 75.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Leo Tolstoy died months before Jean Genet was born, Friedrich Nietzsche died about 10 years before Jean Genet was born, Mark Twain died months before Jean Genet was born and Anton Chekhov died about 6 years before Jean Genet was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

4,205 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Jean Genet. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1948.

  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. George W. Bush born 1946
  12. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  13. Joe Biden born 1942
  14. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  15. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  16. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  17. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  18. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  19. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  21. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  22. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  23. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  24. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  25. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  26. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  27. Bill Gates born 1955
  28. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  29. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  30. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  31. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  32. Shakira born 1977
  33. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  34. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  35. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  36. Bill Clinton born 1946
  37. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  38. Basshunter born 1984
  39. Angela Merkel born 1954
  40. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  41. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  42. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  43. François Hollande born 1954
  44. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  45. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  46. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  47. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  48. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  49. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  50. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  51. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  52. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  53. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  54. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  55. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  56. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  57. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  58. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  59. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  60. Elon Musk born 1971
  61. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  62. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  63. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  64. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  65. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  66. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  67. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  68. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  69. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  70. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  71. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  72. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  73. Lady Gaga born 1986
  74. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  75. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  76. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  77. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  78. Madonna born 1958
  79. Kamala Harris born 1964
  80. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  81. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  82. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  83. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  84. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  85. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  86. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  87. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  88. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  89. Xi Jinping born 1953
  90. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  91. Naruhito born 1960
  92. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  93. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  94. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  95. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  96. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  97. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  98. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  99. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  100. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  101. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  102. Bob Dylan born 1941
  103. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  104. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  105. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  106. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  107. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  108. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  109. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  110. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  111. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  112. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  113. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  114. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  115. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  116. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  117. Charles III born 1948
  118. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  119. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  120. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  121. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  122. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  123. Kim Jong Un born 1984
  124. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  125. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  126. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  127. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  128. Eminem born 1972
  129. Beyoncé born 1981
  130. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  131. Narendra Modi born 1950
  132. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  133. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  134. Rafael Correa born 1963
  135. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  136. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  137. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  138. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  139. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  140. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  141. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  142. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  143. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  144. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  145. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  146. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  147. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  148. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  149. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  150. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935