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José Ortega y Gasset
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José Ortega y Gasset

Spanish philosopher and essayist

Born 9 May 1883 · died 18 October 1955, aged 72
Also known as Jose Ortega y Gasset

Who was alive at the same time as José Ortega y Gasset?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  3. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  4. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  5. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  6. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  7. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  8. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  9. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  10. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  11. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  12. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  13. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  14. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  15. José Ortega y Gasset, 1883 – 1955
  16. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  17. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  18. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  19. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  20. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  21. Joe Biden, born 1942
  22. Donald Trump, born 1946
  23. George W. Bush, born 1946
  24. Vladimir Putin, born 1952

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When José Ortega y Gasset was born, Albert Einstein was 4, Vladimir Lenin was 13, Mahatma Gandhi was 13, Leo Tolstoy was 54 and Joseph Stalin was 4.

When José Ortega y Gasset died, Donald Trump was 9, Vladimir Putin was 3, Ronald Reagan was 44, Nelson Mandela was 37 and George W. Bush was 9.

Born during José Ortega y Gasset’s lifetime: Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush, Joe Biden and Charlie Chaplin.

Not quite contemporaries: Barack Obama was born about 6 years after José Ortega y Gasset died, Michael Jackson was born about 3 years after José Ortega y Gasset died, Karl Marx died months before José Ortega y Gasset was born and Charles Darwin died about a year before José Ortega y Gasset was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

3,121 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as José Ortega y Gasset. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1919.

  1. Donald Trump born 1946
  2. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  3. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  4. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  5. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  6. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  7. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  8. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  9. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  10. George W. Bush born 1946
  11. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  12. Joe Biden born 1942
  13. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  14. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  15. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  16. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  17. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  18. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  19. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  20. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  21. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  22. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  23. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  24. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  25. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  26. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  27. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  28. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  29. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  30. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  31. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  32. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  33. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  34. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  35. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  36. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  37. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  38. Bill Clinton born 1946
  39. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  40. Angela Merkel born 1954
  41. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  42. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  43. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  44. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  45. François Hollande born 1954
  46. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  47. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  48. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  49. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  50. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  51. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  52. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  53. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  54. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  55. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  56. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  57. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  58. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  59. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  60. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  61. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  62. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  63. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  64. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  65. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  66. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  67. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  68. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  69. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  70. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  71. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  72. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  73. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  74. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  75. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  76. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  77. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  78. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  79. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  80. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  81. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  82. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  83. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  84. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  85. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  86. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  87. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  88. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  89. Xi Jinping born 1953
  90. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  91. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  92. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  93. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  94. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  95. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  96. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  97. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  98. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  99. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  100. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  101. Bob Dylan born 1941
  102. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  103. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  104. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  105. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  106. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  107. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  108. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  109. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  110. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  111. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  112. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  113. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  114. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  115. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  116. Charles III born 1948
  117. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  118. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  119. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  120. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  121. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  122. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  123. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  124. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  125. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  126. Narendra Modi born 1950
  127. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  128. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  129. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  130. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  131. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  132. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  133. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  134. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  135. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  136. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  137. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  138. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  139. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  140. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  141. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  142. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  143. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  144. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  145. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  146. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  147. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  148. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  149. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  150. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943