Who Was Alive
Paul Éluard
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Paul Éluard

French poet

Born 14 December 1895 · died 18 November 1952, aged 56
Also known as Paul Grindel, P. Éluard, Jean Du Haut

Who was alive at the same time as Paul Éluard?

  1. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  2. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  3. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  4. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  5. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  6. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  7. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  8. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  9. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  10. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  11. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  12. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  13. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  14. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  15. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  16. Paul Éluard, 1895 – 1952
  17. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  18. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  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 Éluard was born, Adolf Hitler was 6, Albert Einstein was 16, Vladimir Lenin was 25, Mahatma Gandhi was 26 and Leo Tolstoy was 67.

When Paul Éluard died, Donald Trump was 6, Albert Einstein was 73, Vladimir Putin was under a year old, Ronald Reagan was 41 and Nelson Mandela was 34.

Born during Paul Éluard’s lifetime: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Elizabeth II and John F. Kennedy.

Not quite contemporaries: Barack Obama was born about 9 years after Paul Éluard died, Michael Jackson was born about 6 years after Paul Éluard died, Karl Marx died about 12 years before Paul Éluard was born and Charles Darwin died about 13 years before Paul Éluard was born.

What happened in Paul Éluard’s lifetime

Where Paul Éluard’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,894 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Paul Éluard. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1924.

  1. Donald Trump born 1946
  2. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  3. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  4. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  5. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  6. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  7. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  8. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  9. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  10. George W. Bush born 1946
  11. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  12. Joe Biden born 1942
  13. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  14. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  15. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  16. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  17. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  18. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  19. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  21. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  22. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  23. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  24. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  25. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  26. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  27. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  28. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  29. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  30. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  31. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  32. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  33. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  34. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  35. Bill Clinton born 1946
  36. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  37. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  38. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  39. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  40. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  41. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  42. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  43. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  44. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  45. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  46. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  47. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  48. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  49. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  50. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  51. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  52. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  53. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  54. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  55. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  56. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  57. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  58. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  59. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  60. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  61. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  62. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  63. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  64. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  65. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  66. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  67. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  68. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  69. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  70. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  71. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  72. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  73. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  74. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  75. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  76. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  77. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  78. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  79. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  80. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  81. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  82. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  83. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  84. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  85. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  86. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  87. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  88. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  89. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  90. Bob Dylan born 1941
  91. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  92. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  93. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  94. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  95. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  96. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  97. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  98. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  99. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  100. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  101. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  102. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  103. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  104. Charles III born 1948
  105. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  106. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  107. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  108. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  109. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  110. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  111. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  112. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  113. Narendra Modi born 1950
  114. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  115. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  116. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  117. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  118. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  119. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  120. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  121. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  122. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  123. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  124. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  125. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  126. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  127. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  128. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  129. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  130. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  131. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  132. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  133. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  134. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  135. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  136. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  137. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  138. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  139. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  140. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  141. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  142. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  143. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  144. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  145. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  146. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  147. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  148. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  149. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  150. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933