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Robert Graves
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Robert Graves

British poet and novelist

Born 24 July 1895 · died 7 December 1985, aged 90
Also known as Robert Ranke Graves, Robert von Ranke Graves, Robert von Ranke-Graves

Who was alive at the same time as Robert Graves?

  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. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  7. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  8. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  9. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  10. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  11. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  12. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  13. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  14. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  15. Robert Graves, 1895 – 1985
  16. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  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 Robert Graves was born, Adolf Hitler was 6, Albert Einstein was 16, Vladimir Lenin was 25, Mahatma Gandhi was 25 and Leo Tolstoy was 66.

When Robert Graves died, Barack Obama was 24, Donald Trump was 39, Michael Jackson was 27, Vladimir Putin was 33 and Ronald Reagan was 74.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Karl Marx died about 12 years before Robert Graves was born, Charles Darwin died about 13 years before Robert Graves was born, Victor Hugo died about 10 years before Robert Graves was born and Vincent van Gogh died about 5 years before Robert Graves was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

4,309 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Robert Graves. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1940.

  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. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  9. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  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. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  19. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  20. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  21. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  22. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  23. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  24. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  25. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  26. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  27. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  28. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  29. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  30. Bill Gates born 1955
  31. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  32. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  33. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  34. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  35. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  36. Shakira born 1977
  37. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  38. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  39. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  40. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  41. Bill Clinton born 1946
  42. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  43. Basshunter born 1984
  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. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  52. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  53. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  54. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  55. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  56. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  57. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  58. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  59. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  60. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  61. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  62. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  63. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  64. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  65. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  66. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  67. Elon Musk born 1971
  68. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  69. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  70. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  71. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  72. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  73. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  74. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  75. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  76. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  77. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  78. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  79. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  80. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  81. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  82. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  83. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  84. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  85. Madonna born 1958
  86. Kamala Harris born 1964
  87. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  88. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  89. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  90. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  91. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  92. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  93. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  94. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  95. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  96. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  97. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  98. Xi Jinping born 1953
  99. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  100. Naruhito born 1960
  101. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  102. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  103. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  104. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  105. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  106. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  107. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  108. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  109. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  110. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  111. Bob Dylan born 1941
  112. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  113. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  114. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  115. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  116. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  117. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  118. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  119. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  120. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  121. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  122. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  123. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  124. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  125. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  126. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  127. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  128. Charles III born 1948
  129. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  130. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  131. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  132. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  133. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  134. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  135. Kim Jong Un born 1984
  136. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  137. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  138. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  139. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  140. Eminem born 1972
  141. Beyoncé born 1981
  142. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  143. Narendra Modi born 1950
  144. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  145. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  146. Rafael Correa born 1963
  147. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  148. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  149. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  150. Angelina Jolie born 1975