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Jules Massenet
Photographer: Eugène Pirou (1841-1909) Restorer: Adam Cuerden, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Jules Massenet

French composer

Born 12 May 1842 · died 13 August 1912, aged 70
Also known as Jules Emile Frederic Massenet, Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet

Who was alive at the same time as Jules Massenet?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  3. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  4. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  5. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  6. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  7. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  8. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  9. Jules Massenet, 1842 – 1912
  10. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  11. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  12. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  13. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  14. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  15. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  16. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  17. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  18. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  20. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  21. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  22. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  23. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  24. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004

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When Jules Massenet was born, Karl Marx was 24, Abraham Lincoln was 33, Leo Tolstoy was 13, Charles Darwin was 33 and Victor Hugo was 40.

When Jules Massenet died, Adolf Hitler was 23, Albert Einstein was 33, Ronald Reagan was 1, Vladimir Lenin was 42 and Mahatma Gandhi was 42.

Born during Jules Massenet’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso.

Not quite contemporaries: Nelson Mandela was born about 6 years after Jules Massenet died, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died about 10 years before Jules Massenet was born, Elizabeth II was born about 14 years after Jules Massenet died and John F. Kennedy was born about 5 years after Jules Massenet died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,651 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Jules Massenet. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1877.

  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. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  8. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  9. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  10. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  11. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  12. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  13. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  14. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  15. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  16. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  17. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  18. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  19. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  21. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  22. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  23. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  24. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  25. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  26. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  27. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  28. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  29. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  30. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  31. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  32. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  33. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  34. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  35. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  36. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  37. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  38. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  39. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  40. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  41. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  42. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  43. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  44. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  45. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  46. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  47. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  48. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  49. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  50. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  51. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  52. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  53. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  54. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  55. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  56. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  57. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  58. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  59. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  60. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  61. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  62. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  63. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  64. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  65. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  66. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  67. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  68. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  69. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  70. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  71. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  72. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  73. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  74. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  75. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  76. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  77. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  78. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  79. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  80. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  81. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  82. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  83. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  84. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  85. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  86. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  87. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  88. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  89. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  90. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  91. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  92. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  93. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  94. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  95. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  96. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  97. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  98. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  99. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  100. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  101. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  102. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  103. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  104. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  105. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  106. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  107. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  108. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  109. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  110. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  111. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  112. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  113. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  114. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  115. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  116. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  117. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  118. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  119. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  120. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  121. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  122. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  123. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  124. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  125. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  126. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  127. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  128. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  129. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  130. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  131. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  132. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  133. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  134. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  135. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  136. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  137. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  138. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  139. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  140. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  141. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  142. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  143. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  144. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  145. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  146. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  147. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  148. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  149. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  150. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962