Who Was Alive

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

French writer and aviator

Born 29 June 1900 · died 31 July 1944, aged 44

Who was alive at the same time as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry?

  1. Leo Tolstoy
  2. Mark Twain
  3. Friedrich Nietzsche
  4. Thomas Edison
  5. Sigmund Freud
  6. Rabindranath Tagore
  7. Marie Curie
  8. Mahatma Gandhi
  9. Vladimir Lenin
  10. Winston Churchill
  11. Joseph Stalin
  12. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  13. Albert Einstein
  14. Pablo Picasso
  15. Charlie Chaplin
  16. Adolf Hitler
  17. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  18. Salvador Dalí
  19. Ronald Reagan
  20. John F. Kennedy
  21. Nelson Mandela
  22. Elizabeth II
  23. Martin Luther King Jr.
  24. Joe Biden
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was born, Adolf Hitler was 11, Albert Einstein was 21, Vladimir Lenin was 30, Mahatma Gandhi was 30 and Leo Tolstoy was 71.

When Antoine de Saint-Exupéry died, Adolf Hitler was 55, Albert Einstein was 65, Ronald Reagan was 33, Nelson Mandela was 26 and Mahatma Gandhi was 74.

Born during Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s lifetime: Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Joe Biden, Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Salvador Dalí and Marilyn Monroe.

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born 2 years after Antoine de Saint-Exupéry died, Michael Jackson was born 14 years after Antoine de Saint-Exupéry died, Vladimir Putin was born 8 years after Antoine de Saint-Exupéry died and George W. Bush was born 2 years after Antoine de Saint-Exupéry died.

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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. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  14. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  15. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  16. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  17. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  18. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  19. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  20. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  21. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  22. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  23. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  24. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  25. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  26. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  27. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  28. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  29. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  30. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  31. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  32. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  33. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  34. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  35. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  36. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  37. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  38. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  39. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  40. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  41. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  42. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  43. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  44. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  45. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  46. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  47. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  48. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  49. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  50. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  51. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  52. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  53. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  54. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  55. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  56. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  57. Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  58. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  59. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  60. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  61. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  62. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  63. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  64. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  65. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  66. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  67. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  68. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  69. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  70. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  71. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  72. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  73. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  74. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  75. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  76. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  77. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  78. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  79. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  80. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  81. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  82. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  83. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  84. Bob Dylan born 1941
  85. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  86. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  87. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  88. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  89. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  90. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  91. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  92. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  93. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  94. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  95. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  96. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  97. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  98. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  99. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  100. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  101. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  102. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  103. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  104. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  105. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  106. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  107. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  108. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  109. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  110. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  111. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  112. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  113. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  114. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  115. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  116. Tenzin Gyatso born 1935
  117. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  118. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  119. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  120. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  121. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  122. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  123. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  124. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  125. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  126. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  127. Isaac Asimov 1919–1920 – 1992
  128. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  129. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  130. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  131. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  132. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  133. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  134. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  135. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  136. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  137. Kim Il-sung 1912 – 1994
  138. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  139. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  140. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  141. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  142. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  143. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  144. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  145. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  146. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  147. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  148. Woody Allen born 1935
  149. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  150. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940

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