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Joseph Joffre
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Joseph Joffre

French soldier

Born 12 January 1852 · died 3 January 1931, aged 78

Who was alive at the same time as Joseph Joffre?

  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. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  8. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  9. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  10. Joseph Joffre, 1852 – 1931
  11. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  12. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  13. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  14. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  15. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  16. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  17. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  18. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  19. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  20. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  21. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  22. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  23. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  24. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022

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When Joseph Joffre was born, Karl Marx was 33, Abraham Lincoln was 42, Leo Tolstoy was 23, Charles Darwin was 42 and Victor Hugo was 49.

When Joseph Joffre died, Adolf Hitler was 41, Albert Einstein was 51, Ronald Reagan was 19, Nelson Mandela was 12 and Mahatma Gandhi was 61.

Born during Joseph Joffre’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Lenin, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin and Vincent van Gogh.

Not quite contemporaries: Joe Biden was born about 11 years after Joseph Joffre died, Alexander Pushkin died about 15 years before Joseph Joffre was born, Pope Francis was born about 5 years after Joseph Joffre died and Edgar Allan Poe died about 3 years before Joseph Joffre was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,185 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Joseph Joffre. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1892.

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  5. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  6. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  7. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  8. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  9. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  10. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  11. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  12. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  13. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  14. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  15. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  16. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  17. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  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. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  25. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  26. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  27. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  28. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  29. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  30. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  31. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  32. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  33. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  34. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  35. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  36. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  37. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  38. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  39. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  40. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  41. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  42. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  43. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  44. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  45. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  46. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  47. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  48. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  49. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  50. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  51. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  52. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  53. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  54. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  55. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  56. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  57. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  58. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  59. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  60. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  61. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  62. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  63. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  64. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  65. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  66. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  67. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  68. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  69. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  70. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  71. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  72. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  73. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  74. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  75. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  76. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  77. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  78. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  79. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  80. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  81. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  82. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  83. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  84. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  85. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  86. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  87. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  88. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  89. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  90. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  91. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  92. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  93. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  94. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  95. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  96. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  97. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  98. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  99. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  100. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  101. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  102. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  103. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  104. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  105. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  106. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  107. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  108. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  109. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  110. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  111. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  112. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  113. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  114. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  115. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  116. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  117. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  118. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  119. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  120. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  121. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  122. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  123. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  124. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  125. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  126. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  127. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  128. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  129. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  130. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  131. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  132. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  133. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  134. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  135. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  136. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  137. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  138. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  139. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  140. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  141. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  142. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  143. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  144. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  145. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  146. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  147. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  148. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  149. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  150. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004