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John J. Pershing
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John J. Pershing

American military officer

Born 13 September 1860 · died 15 July 1948, aged 87
Also known as John Pershing, Jack Pershing, General Pershing

Who was alive at the same time as John J. Pershing?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  3. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  4. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  5. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  6. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  7. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  8. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  9. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  10. John J. Pershing, 1860 – 1948
  11. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  12. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  13. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  14. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  15. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  16. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  17. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  18. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  19. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  20. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  21. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  22. Joe Biden, born 1942
  23. Donald Trump, born 1946
  24. George W. Bush, born 1946

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When John J. Pershing was born, Karl Marx was 42, Abraham Lincoln was 51, Leo Tolstoy was 32, Charles Darwin was 51 and Victor Hugo was 58.

When John J. Pershing died, Donald Trump was 2, Albert Einstein was 69, Ronald Reagan was 37, Nelson Mandela was 29 and George W. Bush was 2.

Born during John J. Pershing’s lifetime: Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi and George W. Bush.

Not quite contemporaries: Barack Obama was born about 13 years after John J. Pershing died, Michael Jackson was born about 10 years after John J. Pershing died, Vladimir Putin was born about 4 years after John J. Pershing died and Bill Gates was born about 7 years after John J. Pershing died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,930 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as John J. Pershing. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1904.

  1. Donald Trump born 1946
  2. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  3. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  4. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  5. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  6. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  7. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  8. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  9. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  10. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  11. George W. Bush born 1946
  12. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  13. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  14. Joe Biden born 1942
  15. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  16. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  17. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  18. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  19. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  20. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  21. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  22. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  23. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  24. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  25. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  26. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  27. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  28. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  29. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  30. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  31. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  32. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  33. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  34. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  35. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  36. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  37. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  38. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  39. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  40. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  41. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  42. Bill Clinton born 1946
  43. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  44. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  45. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  46. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  47. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  48. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  49. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  50. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  51. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  52. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  53. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  54. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  55. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  56. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  57. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  58. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  59. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  60. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  61. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  62. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  63. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  64. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  65. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  66. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  67. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  68. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  69. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  70. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  71. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  72. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  73. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  74. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  75. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  76. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  77. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  78. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  79. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  80. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  81. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  82. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  83. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  84. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  85. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  86. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  87. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  88. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  89. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  90. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  91. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  92. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  93. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  94. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  95. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  96. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  97. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  98. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  99. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  100. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  101. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  102. Bob Dylan born 1941
  103. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  104. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  105. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  106. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  107. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  108. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  109. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  110. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  111. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  112. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  113. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  114. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  115. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  116. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  117. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  118. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  119. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  120. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  121. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  122. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  123. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  124. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  125. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  126. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  127. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  128. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  129. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  130. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  131. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  132. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  133. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  134. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  135. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  136. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  137. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  138. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  139. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  140. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  141. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  142. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  143. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  144. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  145. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  146. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  147. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  148. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  149. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  150. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007