Who Was Alive
René Goscinny
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René Goscinny

French comics artist and author

Born 14 August 1926 · died 5 November 1977, aged 51
Also known as Rene Goscinny, R. Goscinny

Who was alive at the same time as René Goscinny?

  1. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  2. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  3. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  4. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  5. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  6. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  7. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  8. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  9. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  10. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  11. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  12. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  13. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  14. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  15. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  16. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  17. René Goscinny, 1926 – 1977
  18. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968
  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 René Goscinny was born, Adolf Hitler was 37, Albert Einstein was 47, Ronald Reagan was 15, Nelson Mandela was 8 and Mahatma Gandhi was 56.

When René Goscinny died, Barack Obama was 16, Donald Trump was 31, Michael Jackson was 19, Vladimir Putin was 25 and Ronald Reagan was 66.

Born during René Goscinny’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Martin Luther King Jr. and Bill Gates.

Not quite contemporaries: Vladimir Lenin died about 2 years before René Goscinny was born, Franz Kafka died about 2 years before René Goscinny was born, Lionel Messi was born about 10 years after René Goscinny died and Corbin Bleu was born about 12 years after René Goscinny died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

3,691 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as René Goscinny. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1952.

  1. Barack Obama born 1961
  2. Donald Trump born 1946
  3. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  4. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  5. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  6. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  7. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  8. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  9. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  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. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  17. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  18. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  20. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  21. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  22. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  23. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  24. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  25. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  26. Bill Gates born 1955
  27. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  28. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  29. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  30. Shakira born 1977
  31. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  32. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  33. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  34. Bill Clinton born 1946
  35. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  36. Angela Merkel born 1954
  37. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  38. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  39. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  40. François Hollande born 1954
  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. Elon Musk born 1971
  56. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  57. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  58. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  59. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  60. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  61. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  62. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  63. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  64. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  65. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  66. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  67. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  68. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  69. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  70. Madonna born 1958
  71. Kamala Harris born 1964
  72. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  73. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  74. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  75. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  76. Xi Jinping born 1953
  77. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  78. Naruhito born 1960
  79. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  80. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  81. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  82. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  83. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  84. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  85. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  86. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  87. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  88. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  89. Bob Dylan born 1941
  90. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  91. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  92. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  93. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  94. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  95. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  96. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  97. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  98. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  99. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  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. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  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. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  113. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  114. Eminem born 1972
  115. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  116. Narendra Modi born 1950
  117. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  118. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  119. Rafael Correa born 1963
  120. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  121. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  122. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  123. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  124. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  125. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  126. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  127. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  128. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  129. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  130. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  131. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  132. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  133. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  134. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  135. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  136. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  137. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  138. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  139. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  140. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  141. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  142. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  143. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  144. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  145. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  146. Shinzo Abe 1954 – 2022
  147. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  148. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  149. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  150. Tim Berners-Lee born 1955