Who Was Alive

Simone de Beauvoir

French philosopher, social theorist and activist

Born 9 January 1908 · died 14 April 1986, aged 78

Who was alive at the same time as Simone de Beauvoir?

  1. Leo Tolstoy
  2. Mark Twain
  3. Thomas Edison
  4. Sigmund Freud
  5. Mahatma Gandhi
  6. Vladimir Lenin
  7. Winston Churchill
  8. Joseph Stalin
  9. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  10. Albert Einstein
  11. Pablo Picasso
  12. Charlie Chaplin
  13. Adolf Hitler
  14. Simone de Beauvoir
  15. Ronald Reagan
  16. John F. Kennedy
  17. Nelson Mandela
  18. Elizabeth II
  19. Joe Biden
  20. Donald Trump
  21. George W. Bush
  22. Vladimir Putin
  23. Michael Jackson
  24. Barack Obama
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When Simone de Beauvoir was born, Adolf Hitler was 18, Albert Einstein was 28, Vladimir Lenin was 37, Mahatma Gandhi was 38 and Leo Tolstoy was 79.

When Simone de Beauvoir died, Barack Obama was 24, Donald Trump was 39, Michael Jackson was 27, Vladimir Putin was 33 and Ronald Reagan was 75.

Born during Simone de Beauvoir’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 8 years before Simone de Beauvoir was born, Anton Chekhov died 4 years before Simone de Beauvoir was born, Lionel Messi was born about a year after Simone de Beauvoir died and Corbin Bleu was born 3 years after Simone de Beauvoir died.

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  9. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  10. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
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  13. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
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