Who Was Alive

Édith Piaf

French singer

Born 19 December 1915 · died 10 October 1963, aged 47

Who was alive at the same time as Édith Piaf?

  1. Thomas Edison
  2. Sigmund Freud
  3. Marie Curie
  4. Mahatma Gandhi
  5. Vladimir Lenin
  6. Winston Churchill
  7. Joseph Stalin
  8. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  9. Albert Einstein
  10. Pablo Picasso
  11. Charlie Chaplin
  12. Adolf Hitler
  13. Ronald Reagan
  14. Édith Piaf
  15. John F. Kennedy
  16. Nelson Mandela
  17. Elizabeth II
  18. Martin Luther King Jr.
  19. Joe Biden
  20. Donald Trump
  21. George W. Bush
  22. Vladimir Putin
  23. Michael Jackson
  24. Barack Obama
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When Édith Piaf was born, Adolf Hitler was 26, Albert Einstein was 36, Ronald Reagan was 4, Vladimir Lenin was 45 and Mahatma Gandhi was 46.

When Édith Piaf died, Barack Obama was 2, Donald Trump was 17, Michael Jackson was 5, Vladimir Putin was 11 and Ronald Reagan was 52.

Born during Édith Piaf’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush, Joe Biden and Elizabeth II.

Not quite contemporaries: Leo Tolstoy died 5 years before Édith Piaf was born, Mark Twain died 5 years before Édith Piaf was born, Anton Chekhov died 11 years before Édith Piaf was born and Jimmy Wales was born 3 years after Édith Piaf died.

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