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John Nance Garner
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John Nance Garner

American politician who served as Vice President of the United States

Born 22 November 1868 · died 7 November 1967, aged 98
Also known as John Garner, John N. Garner, John Nance Garner IV

Who was alive at the same time as John Nance Garner?

  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. John Nance Garner, 1868 – 1967
  9. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  10. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  11. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  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 John Nance Garner was born, Karl Marx was 50, Leo Tolstoy was 40, Charles Darwin was 59, Victor Hugo was 66 and Vincent van Gogh was 15.

When John Nance Garner died, Barack Obama was 6, Donald Trump was 21, Michael Jackson was 9, Vladimir Putin was 15 and Ronald Reagan was 56.

Born during John Nance Garner’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan and Vladimir Lenin.

Not quite contemporaries: Abraham Lincoln died about 3 years before John Nance Garner was born, Shakira was born about 10 years after John Nance Garner died, Volodymyr Zelenskyy was born about 11 years after John Nance Garner died and Elon Musk was born about 4 years after John Nance Garner died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

3,751 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as John Nance Garner. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1918.

  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. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  30. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  31. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  32. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  33. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  34. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  35. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  36. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  37. Bill Gates born 1955
  38. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  39. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  40. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  41. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  42. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  43. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  44. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  45. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  46. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  47. Bill Clinton born 1946
  48. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  49. Angela Merkel born 1954
  50. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  51. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  52. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  53. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  54. François Hollande born 1954
  55. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  56. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  57. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  58. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  59. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  60. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  61. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  62. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  63. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  64. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  65. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  66. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  67. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  68. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  69. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  70. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  71. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  72. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  73. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  74. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  75. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  76. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  77. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  78. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  79. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  80. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  81. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  82. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  83. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  84. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  85. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  86. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  87. Madonna born 1958
  88. Kamala Harris born 1964
  89. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  90. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  91. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  92. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  93. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  94. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  95. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  96. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  97. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  98. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  99. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  100. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  101. Xi Jinping born 1953
  102. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  103. Naruhito born 1960
  104. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  105. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  106. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  107. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  108. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  109. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  110. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  111. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  112. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  113. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  114. Bob Dylan born 1941
  115. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  116. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  117. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  118. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  119. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  120. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  121. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  122. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  123. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  124. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  125. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  126. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  127. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  128. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  129. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  130. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  131. Charles III born 1948
  132. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  133. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  134. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  135. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  136. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  137. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  138. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  139. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  140. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  141. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  142. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  143. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  144. Narendra Modi born 1950
  145. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  146. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  147. Rafael Correa born 1963
  148. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  149. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  150. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949