Who Was Alive
Juan Gris
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Juan Gris

Spanish artist

Born 23 March 1887 · died 11 May 1927, aged 40
Also known as José Victoriano González, Gris, José Victoriano Gonzalez

Who was alive at the same time as Juan Gris?

  1. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  2. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  3. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  4. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  5. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  6. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  7. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  8. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  9. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  10. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  11. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  12. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  13. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  14. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  15. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  16. Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1882 – 1945
  17. Juan Gris, 1887 – 1927
  18. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  19. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  20. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  21. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  22. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  23. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  24. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022

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When Juan Gris was born, Albert Einstein was 8, Vladimir Lenin was 16, Mahatma Gandhi was 17, Leo Tolstoy was 58 and Joseph Stalin was 8.

When Juan Gris died, Adolf Hitler was 38, Albert Einstein was 48, Ronald Reagan was 16, Nelson Mandela was 8 and Mahatma Gandhi was 57.

Born during Juan Gris’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Charlie Chaplin, Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy, Salvador Dalí and Marilyn Monroe.

Not quite contemporaries: Karl Marx died about 4 years before Juan Gris was born, Charles Darwin died about 5 years before Juan Gris was born, Victor Hugo died about 2 years before Juan Gris was born and Fyodor Dostoevsky died about 6 years before Juan Gris was born.

What happened in Juan Gris’s lifetime

Where Juan Gris’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,854 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Juan Gris. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1907.

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  4. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  5. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  6. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  7. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  8. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  9. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  10. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  11. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  12. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  13. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  14. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  15. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  16. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  17. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  18. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  19. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  20. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  21. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  22. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  23. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  24. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  25. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  26. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  27. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  28. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  29. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  30. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  31. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  32. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  33. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  34. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  35. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  36. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  37. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  38. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  39. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  40. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  41. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  42. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  43. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  44. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  45. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  46. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  47. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  48. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  49. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  50. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  51. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  52. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  53. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  54. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  55. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  56. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  57. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  58. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  59. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  60. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  61. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  62. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  63. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  64. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  65. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  66. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  67. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  68. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  69. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  70. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  71. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  72. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  73. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  74. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  75. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  76. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  77. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  78. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  79. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  80. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  81. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  82. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  83. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  84. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  85. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  86. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  87. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  88. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  89. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  90. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  91. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  92. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  93. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  94. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  95. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  96. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  97. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  98. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  99. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  100. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  101. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  102. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  103. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  104. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  105. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  106. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  107. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  108. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  109. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  110. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  111. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  112. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  113. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  114. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  115. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  116. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  117. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  118. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  119. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  120. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  121. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  122. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  123. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  124. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  125. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  126. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  127. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  128. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  129. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  130. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  131. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  132. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  133. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  134. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  135. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  136. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  137. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  138. Judy Garland 1922 – 1969
  139. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  140. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  141. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  142. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  143. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  144. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  145. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  146. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  147. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  148. John Steinbeck 1902 – 1968
  149. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  150. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924