Who Was Alive

Jean Cocteau

French writer and film director

Born 5 July 1889 · died 11 October 1963, aged 74

Who was alive at the same time as Jean Cocteau?

  1. Leo Tolstoy
  2. Mark Twain
  3. Friedrich Nietzsche
  4. Thomas Edison
  5. Vincent van Gogh
  6. Mahatma Gandhi
  7. Vladimir Lenin
  8. Winston Churchill
  9. Joseph Stalin
  10. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  11. Albert Einstein
  12. Pablo Picasso
  13. Charlie Chaplin
  14. Adolf Hitler
  15. Jean Cocteau
  16. Ronald Reagan
  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 Jean Cocteau was born, Adolf Hitler was under a year old, Albert Einstein was 10, Vladimir Lenin was 19, Mahatma Gandhi was 19 and Leo Tolstoy was 60.

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

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

Not quite contemporaries: Karl Marx died 6 years before Jean Cocteau was born, Charles Darwin died 7 years before Jean Cocteau was born, Victor Hugo died 4 years before Jean Cocteau was born and Fyodor Dostoyevsky died 8 years before Jean Cocteau was born.

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  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. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  16. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  17. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  18. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  19. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  20. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  21. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  22. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  23. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  24. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  25. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  26. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  27. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  28. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  29. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
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  36. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
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