Who Was Alive

Cary Grant

British-American actor

Born 18 January 1904 · died 29 November 1986, aged 82

Who was alive at the same time as Cary Grant?

  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. Cary Grant
  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 Cary Grant was born, Adolf Hitler was 14, Albert Einstein was 24, Vladimir Lenin was 33, Mahatma Gandhi was 34 and Leo Tolstoy was 75.

When Cary Grant died, Barack Obama was 25, Donald Trump was 40, Michael Jackson was 28, Vladimir Putin was 34 and Ronald Reagan was 75.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Vincent van Gogh died 14 years before Cary Grant was born, Friedrich Nietzsche died 4 years before Cary Grant was born, Lionel Messi was born about a year after Cary Grant died and Corbin Bleu was born 3 years after Cary Grant died.

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  1. Barack Obama born 1961
  2. Donald Trump born 1946
  3. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  4. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  5. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  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. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  19. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  21. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  22. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  23. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  24. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  25. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  26. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  27. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  28. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  29. Bill Gates born 1955
  30. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  31. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  32. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  33. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  34. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  35. Shakira born 1977
  36. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  37. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  38. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  39. Bill Clinton born 1946
  40. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  41. Basshunter born 1984
  42. Angela Merkel born 1954
  43. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  44. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  45. François Hollande born 1954
  46. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  47. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  48. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  49. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  50. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  51. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  52. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  53. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  54. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  55. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  56. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  57. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  58. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  59. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  60. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  61. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  62. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  63. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  64. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  65. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  66. Elon Musk born 1971
  67. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  68. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  69. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  70. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  71. Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  72. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  73. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  74. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  75. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  76. Lady Gaga born 1986
  77. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  78. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  79. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  80. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  81. Madonna born 1958
  82. Kamala Harris born 1964
  83. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  84. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  85. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  86. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  87. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  88. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  89. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  90. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  91. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  92. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  93. Xi Jinping born 1953
  94. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  95. Naruhito born 1960
  96. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  97. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  98. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  99. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  100. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  101. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  102. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  103. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  104. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  105. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  106. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  107. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  108. Bob Dylan born 1941
  109. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  110. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  111. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  112. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  113. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  114. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  115. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  116. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  117. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  118. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  119. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  120. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  121. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  122. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  123. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  124. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  125. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  126. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  127. Charles III born 1948
  128. Kim Jong-un born 1984
  129. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  130. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  131. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  132. Eminem born 1972
  133. Beyoncé born 1981
  134. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  135. Leo XIV born 1955
  136. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  137. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  138. Narendra Modi born 1950
  139. Rafael Correa born 1963
  140. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  141. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  142. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  143. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  144. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  145. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  146. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  147. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  148. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  149. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  150. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944

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