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Paul Claudel
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Paul Claudel

French diplomat and poet

Born 6 August 1868 · died 23 February 1955, aged 86
Also known as Pol Klodel

Who was alive at the same time as Paul Claudel?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  3. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  4. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  5. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  6. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  7. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  8. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  9. Paul Claudel, 1868 – 1955
  10. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  11. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  12. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  13. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  14. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  15. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  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 Paul Claudel was born, Karl Marx was 50, Leo Tolstoy was 39, Charles Darwin was 59, Victor Hugo was 66 and Vincent van Gogh was 15.

When Paul Claudel died, Donald Trump was 8, Albert Einstein was 75, Vladimir Putin was 2, Ronald Reagan was 44 and Nelson Mandela was 36.

Born during Paul Claudel’s lifetime: Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Lenin, Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi.

Not quite contemporaries: Barack Obama was born about 6 years after Paul Claudel died, Michael Jackson was born about 3 years after Paul Claudel died, Abraham Lincoln died about 3 years before Paul Claudel was born and Bill Gates was born months after Paul Claudel died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

3,173 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Paul Claudel. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1912.

  1. Donald Trump born 1946
  2. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  3. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  4. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  5. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  6. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  7. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  8. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  9. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  10. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  11. George W. Bush born 1946
  12. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  13. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  14. Joe Biden born 1942
  15. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  16. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  17. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  18. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  19. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  20. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  21. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  22. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  23. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  24. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  25. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  26. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  27. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  28. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  29. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  30. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  31. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  32. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  33. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  34. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  35. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  36. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  37. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  38. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  39. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  40. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  41. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  42. Bill Clinton born 1946
  43. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  44. Angela Merkel born 1954
  45. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  46. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  47. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  48. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  49. François Hollande born 1954
  50. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  51. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  52. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  53. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  54. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  55. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  56. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  57. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  58. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  59. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  60. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  61. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  62. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  63. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  64. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  65. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  66. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  67. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  68. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  69. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  70. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  71. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  72. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  73. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  74. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  75. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  76. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  77. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  78. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  79. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  80. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  81. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  82. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  83. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  84. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  85. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  86. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  87. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  88. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  89. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  90. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  91. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  92. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  93. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  94. Xi Jinping born 1953
  95. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  96. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  97. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  98. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  99. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  100. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  101. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  102. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  103. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  104. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  105. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  106. Bob Dylan born 1941
  107. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  108. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  109. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  110. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  111. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  112. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  113. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  114. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  115. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  116. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  117. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  118. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  119. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  120. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  121. Charles III born 1948
  122. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  123. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  124. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  125. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  126. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  127. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  128. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  129. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  130. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  131. Narendra Modi born 1950
  132. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  133. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  134. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  135. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  136. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  137. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  138. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  139. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  140. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  141. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  142. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  143. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  144. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  145. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  146. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  147. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  148. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  149. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  150. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992