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Mercè Rodoreda
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Mercè Rodoreda

Spanish writer

Born 10 October 1908 · died 13 April 1983, aged 74
Also known as Merce Rodoreda, Rodoreda, Mercedes Rodoreda

Who was alive at the same time as Mercè Rodoreda?

  1. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  2. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  3. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  4. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  5. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  6. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  7. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  8. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  9. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  10. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  11. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  12. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  13. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  14. Mercè Rodoreda, 1908 – 1983
  15. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  16. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  17. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  18. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  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 Mercè Rodoreda was born, Adolf Hitler was 19, Albert Einstein was 29, Vladimir Lenin was 38, Mahatma Gandhi was 39 and Leo Tolstoy was 80.

When Mercè Rodoreda died, Barack Obama was 21, Donald Trump was 36, Michael Jackson was 24, Vladimir Putin was 30 and Ronald Reagan was 72.

Born during Mercè Rodoreda’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush and Joe Biden.

Not quite contemporaries: Friedrich Nietzsche died about 8 years before Mercè Rodoreda was born, Anton Chekhov died about 4 years before Mercè Rodoreda was born, Lionel Messi was born about 4 years after Mercè Rodoreda died and Corbin Bleu was born about 6 years after Mercè Rodoreda died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

4,154 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Mercè Rodoreda. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1946.

  1. Barack Obama born 1961
  2. Donald Trump born 1946
  3. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  4. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  5. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  6. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  7. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  8. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  9. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  10. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  11. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  12. George W. Bush born 1946
  13. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  14. Joe Biden born 1942
  15. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  16. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  17. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  18. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  19. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  21. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  22. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  23. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  24. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  25. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  26. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  27. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  28. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  29. Bill Gates born 1955
  30. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  31. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  32. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  33. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  34. Shakira born 1977
  35. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  36. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  37. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  38. Bill Clinton born 1946
  39. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  40. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  41. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  42. Angela Merkel born 1954
  43. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  44. François Hollande born 1954
  45. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  46. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  47. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  48. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  49. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  50. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  51. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  52. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  53. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  54. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  55. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  56. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  57. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  58. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  59. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  60. Elon Musk born 1971
  61. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  62. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  63. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  64. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  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. Madonna born 1958
  77. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  78. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  79. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  80. Kamala Harris born 1964
  81. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  82. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  83. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  84. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  85. Xi Jinping born 1953
  86. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  87. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  88. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  89. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  90. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  91. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  92. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  93. Naruhito born 1960
  94. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  95. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  96. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  97. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  98. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  99. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  100. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  101. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  102. Bob Dylan born 1941
  103. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  104. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  105. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  106. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  107. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  108. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  109. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  110. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  111. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  112. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  113. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  114. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  115. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  116. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  117. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  118. Charles III born 1948
  119. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  120. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  121. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  122. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  123. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  124. Beyoncé born 1981
  125. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  126. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  127. Eminem born 1972
  128. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  129. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  130. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  131. Narendra Modi born 1950
  132. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  133. Rafael Correa born 1963
  134. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  135. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  136. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  137. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  138. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  139. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  140. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  141. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  142. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  143. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  144. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  145. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  146. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  147. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  148. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  149. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  150. Anna Netrebko born 1971