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Jean Giraudoux
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Jean Giraudoux

French novelist and essayist

Born 29 October 1882 · died 31 January 1944, aged 61
Also known as Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux

Who was alive at the same time as Jean Giraudoux?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  3. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  4. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  5. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  6. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  7. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  8. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  9. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  10. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  11. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  12. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  13. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  14. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  15. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  16. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  17. Jean Giraudoux, 1882 – 1944
  18. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  19. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  20. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  21. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  22. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  23. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  24. Joe Biden, born 1942

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When Jean Giraudoux was born, Albert Einstein was 3, Karl Marx was 64, Vladimir Lenin was 12, Mahatma Gandhi was 13 and Leo Tolstoy was 54.

When Jean Giraudoux died, Adolf Hitler was 54, Albert Einstein was 64, Ronald Reagan was 32, Nelson Mandela was 25 and Mahatma Gandhi was 74.

Born during Jean Giraudoux’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Joe Biden, Charlie Chaplin, Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr..

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born about 2 years after Jean Giraudoux died, Michael Jackson was born about 14 years after Jean Giraudoux died, Vladimir Putin was born about 8 years after Jean Giraudoux died and George W. Bush was born about 2 years after Jean Giraudoux died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,555 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Jean Giraudoux. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1913.

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  5. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  6. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  7. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  8. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  9. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  10. Joe Biden born 1942
  11. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  12. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  13. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  14. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  15. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  16. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  17. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  18. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  19. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  21. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  22. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  23. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  24. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  25. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  26. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  27. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  28. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  29. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  30. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  31. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  32. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  33. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  34. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  35. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  36. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  37. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  38. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  39. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  40. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  41. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  42. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  43. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  44. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  45. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  46. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  47. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  48. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  49. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  50. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  51. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  52. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  53. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  54. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  55. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  56. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  57. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  58. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  59. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  60. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  61. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  62. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  63. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  64. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  65. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  66. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  67. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  68. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  69. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  70. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  71. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  72. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  73. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  74. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  75. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  76. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  77. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  78. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  79. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  80. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  81. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  82. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  83. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  84. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  85. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  86. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  87. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  88. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  89. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  90. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  91. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  92. Bob Dylan born 1941
  93. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  94. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  95. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  96. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  97. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  98. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  99. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  100. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  101. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  102. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  103. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  104. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  105. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  106. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  107. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  108. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  109. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  110. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  111. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  112. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  113. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  114. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  115. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  116. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  117. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  118. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  119. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  120. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  121. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  122. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  123. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  124. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  125. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  126. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  127. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  128. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  129. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  130. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  131. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  132. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  133. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  134. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  135. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  136. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  137. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  138. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  139. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  140. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  141. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  142. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  143. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  144. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  145. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  146. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  147. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  148. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  149. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  150. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008