Who Was Alive
Jean Harlow
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Jean Harlow

American film actor

Born 3 March 1911 · died 7 June 1937, aged 26
Also known as The Blonde Bombshell, Harlean Harlow Carpenter, The Baby

Who was alive at the same time as Jean Harlow?

  1. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  2. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  3. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  4. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  5. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  6. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  7. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  8. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  9. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  10. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  11. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  12. Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1882 – 1945
  13. Franz Kafka, 1883 – 1924
  14. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  15. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  16. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  17. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  18. Jean Harlow, 1911 – 1937
  19. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  20. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  21. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  22. Marilyn Monroe, 1926 – 1962
  23. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968
  24. Pope Francis, 1936 – 2025

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When Jean Harlow was born, Adolf Hitler was 21, Albert Einstein was 31, Ronald Reagan was under a year old, Vladimir Lenin was 40 and Mahatma Gandhi was 41.

When Jean Harlow died, Adolf Hitler was 48, Albert Einstein was 58, Ronald Reagan was 26, Nelson Mandela was 18 and Mahatma Gandhi was 67.

Born during Jean Harlow’s lifetime: Nelson Mandela, Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Marilyn Monroe, Pope Francis, Che Guevara and Neil Armstrong.

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born about 9 years after Jean Harlow died, Leo Tolstoy died about a year before Jean Harlow was born, George W. Bush was born about 9 years after Jean Harlow died and Joe Biden was born about 5 years after Jean Harlow died.

What happened in Jean Harlow’s lifetime

Where Jean Harlow’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,051 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Jean Harlow. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1924.

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  4. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  5. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  6. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  7. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  8. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  9. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  10. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  11. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  12. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  13. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  14. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  15. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  16. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  17. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  18. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  19. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  20. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  21. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  22. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  23. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  24. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  25. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  26. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  27. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  28. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  29. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  30. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  31. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  32. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  33. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  34. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  35. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  36. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  37. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  38. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  39. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  40. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  41. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  42. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  43. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  44. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  45. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  46. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  47. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  48. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  49. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  50. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  51. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  52. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  53. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  54. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  55. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  56. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  57. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  58. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  59. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  60. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  61. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  62. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  63. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  64. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  65. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  66. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  67. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  68. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  69. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  70. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  71. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  72. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  73. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  74. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  75. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  76. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  77. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  78. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  79. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  80. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  81. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  82. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  83. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  84. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  85. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  86. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  87. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  88. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  89. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  90. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  91. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  92. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  93. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  94. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  95. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  96. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  97. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  98. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  99. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  100. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  101. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  102. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  103. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  104. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  105. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  106. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  107. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  108. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  109. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  110. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  111. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  112. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  113. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  114. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  115. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  116. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  117. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  118. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  119. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  120. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  121. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  122. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  123. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  124. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  125. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  126. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  127. Woody Allen born 1935
  128. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  129. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  130. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  131. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  132. Yasser Arafat 1929 – 2004
  133. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  134. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  135. Judy Garland 1922 – 1969
  136. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  137. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  138. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  139. Brigitte Bardot 1934 – 2025
  140. Hebe Camargo 1929 – 2012
  141. Umberto Eco 1932 – 2016
  142. Audrey Hepburn 1929 – 1993
  143. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  144. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  145. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  146. John Steinbeck 1902 – 1968
  147. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  148. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  149. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  150. William Faulkner 1897 – 1962