Who Was Alive

Simone Weil

French philosopher, writer, and social activist

Born 3 February 1909 · died 24 August 1943, aged 34

Who was alive at the same time as Simone Weil?

  1. Leo Tolstoy
  2. Mark Twain
  3. Thomas Edison
  4. Sigmund Freud
  5. Rabindranath Tagore
  6. Marie Curie
  7. Mahatma Gandhi
  8. Vladimir Lenin
  9. Winston Churchill
  10. Joseph Stalin
  11. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  12. Albert Einstein
  13. Pablo Picasso
  14. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  15. Charlie Chaplin
  16. Adolf Hitler
  17. Salvador Dalí
  18. Simone Weil
  19. Ronald Reagan
  20. John F. Kennedy
  21. Nelson Mandela
  22. Elizabeth II
  23. Martin Luther King Jr.
  24. Joe Biden
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When Simone Weil was born, Adolf Hitler was 19, Albert Einstein was 29, Vladimir Lenin was 38, Mahatma Gandhi was 39 and Leo Tolstoy was 80.

When Simone Weil died, Adolf Hitler was 54, Albert Einstein was 64, Ronald Reagan was 32, Nelson Mandela was 25 and Mahatma Gandhi was 73.

Born during Simone Weil’s lifetime: Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Joe Biden, Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Marilyn Monroe and Pope Francis.

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born 3 years after Simone Weil died, Vladimir Putin was born 9 years after Simone Weil died, George W. Bush was born 3 years after Simone Weil died and Friedrich Nietzsche died 9 years before Simone Weil was born.

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  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  4. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  5. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  6. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  7. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  8. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  9. Joe Biden born 1942
  10. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  11. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  12. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  13. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  14. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  15. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  16. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  17. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  18. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  19. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  20. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  21. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  22. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  23. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  24. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  25. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  26. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  27. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  28. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  29. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  30. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  31. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  32. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  33. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  34. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  35. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  36. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  37. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  38. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  39. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  40. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  41. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  42. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  43. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  44. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  45. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  46. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  47. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  48. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  49. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  50. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  51. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  52. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  53. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  54. Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  55. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  56. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  57. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  58. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  59. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  60. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  61. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  62. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  63. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  64. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  65. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  66. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  67. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  68. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  69. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  70. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  71. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  72. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  73. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  74. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  75. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  76. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  77. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  78. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  79. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  80. Bob Dylan born 1941
  81. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  82. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  83. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  84. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  85. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  86. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  87. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  88. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  89. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  90. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  91. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  92. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  93. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  94. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  95. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  96. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  97. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  98. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  99. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  100. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  101. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  102. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  103. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  104. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  105. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  106. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  107. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  108. Tenzin Gyatso born 1935
  109. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  110. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  111. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  112. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  113. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  114. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  115. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  116. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  117. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  118. Isaac Asimov 1919–1920 – 1992
  119. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  120. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  121. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  122. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  123. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  124. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  125. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  126. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  127. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  128. Kim Il-sung 1912 – 1994
  129. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  130. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  131. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  132. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  133. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  134. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  135. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  136. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  137. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  138. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  139. Woody Allen born 1935
  140. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  141. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  142. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  143. William Butler Yeats 1865 – 1939
  144. Yasser Arafat 1929 – 2004
  145. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  146. Judy Garland 1922 – 1969
  147. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  148. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  149. Brigitte Bardot 1934 – 2025
  150. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910

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