Who Was Alive
Jeanne Calment
Gustave Ouvière, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Jeanne Calment

French housewife

Born 21 February 1875 · died 4 August 1997, aged 122
Also known as Jeanne Louise Calment, oldest human

Who was alive at the same time as Jeanne Calment?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  3. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  4. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  5. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  6. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  7. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  8. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  9. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  10. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  11. Jeanne Calment, 1875 – 1997
  12. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  13. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  14. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  15. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  16. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  17. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  18. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  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 Jeanne Calment was born, Karl Marx was 56, Vladimir Lenin was 4, Mahatma Gandhi was 5, Leo Tolstoy was 46 and Charles Darwin was 66.

When Jeanne Calment died, Barack Obama was 36, Donald Trump was 51, Michael Jackson was 38, Vladimir Putin was 44 and Ronald Reagan was 86.

Born during Jeanne Calment’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan and Nelson Mandela.

Not quite contemporaries: Abraham Lincoln died about 10 years before Jeanne Calment was born, Charles Dickens died about 5 years before Jeanne Calment was born, Michael Faraday died about 8 years before Jeanne Calment was born and Charles Baudelaire died about 8 years before Jeanne Calment was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

4,790 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Jeanne Calment. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1936.

  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. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  8. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  9. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  10. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  11. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  12. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  13. George W. Bush born 1946
  14. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  15. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  16. Joe Biden born 1942
  17. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  18. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  19. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  20. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  21. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  22. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  23. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  24. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  25. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  26. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  27. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  28. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  29. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  30. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  31. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  32. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  33. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  34. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  35. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  36. Bill Gates born 1955
  37. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  38. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  39. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  40. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  41. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  42. Shakira born 1977
  43. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  44. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  45. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  46. Lionel Messi born 1987
  47. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  48. Corbin Bleu born 1989
  49. Bill Clinton born 1946
  50. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  51. Basshunter born 1984
  52. Angela Merkel born 1954
  53. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  54. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  55. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  56. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  57. François Hollande born 1954
  58. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  59. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  60. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  61. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  62. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  63. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  64. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  65. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  66. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  67. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  68. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  69. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  70. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  71. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  72. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  73. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  74. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  75. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  76. Elon Musk born 1971
  77. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  78. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  79. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  80. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  81. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  82. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  83. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  84. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  85. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  86. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  87. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  88. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  89. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  90. Lady Gaga born 1986
  91. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  92. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  93. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  94. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  95. Madonna born 1958
  96. Kamala Harris born 1964
  97. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  98. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  99. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  100. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  101. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  102. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  103. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  104. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  105. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  106. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  107. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  108. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  109. Xi Jinping born 1953
  110. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  111. Naruhito born 1960
  112. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  113. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  114. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  115. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  116. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  117. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  118. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  119. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  120. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  121. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  122. Bob Dylan born 1941
  123. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  124. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  125. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  126. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  127. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  128. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  129. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  130. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  131. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  132. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  133. Justin Bieber born 1994
  134. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  135. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  136. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  137. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  138. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  139. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  140. Taylor Swift born 1989
  141. Charles III born 1948
  142. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  143. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  144. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  145. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  146. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  147. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  148. Kim Jong Un born 1984
  149. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  150. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006