Who Was Alive

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

French writer

Born 27 May 1894 · died 1 July 1961, aged 67

Who was alive at the same time as Louis-Ferdinand Céline?

  1. Leo Tolstoy
  2. Mark Twain
  3. Friedrich Nietzsche
  4. Thomas Edison
  5. Sigmund Freud
  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. Louis-Ferdinand Céline
  16. Ronald Reagan
  17. John F. Kennedy
  18. Nelson Mandela
  19. Elizabeth II
  20. Joe Biden
  21. Donald Trump
  22. George W. Bush
  23. Vladimir Putin
  24. Michael Jackson
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When Louis-Ferdinand Céline was born, Adolf Hitler was 5, Albert Einstein was 15, Vladimir Lenin was 24, Mahatma Gandhi was 24 and Leo Tolstoy was 65.

When Louis-Ferdinand Céline died, Donald Trump was 15, Michael Jackson was 2, Vladimir Putin was 8, Ronald Reagan was 50 and Nelson Mandela was 42.

Born during Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s lifetime: Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush, Joe Biden and Elizabeth II.

Not quite contemporaries: Barack Obama was born months after Louis-Ferdinand Céline died, Karl Marx died 11 years before Louis-Ferdinand Céline was born, Charles Darwin died 12 years before Louis-Ferdinand Céline was born and Victor Hugo died 9 years before Louis-Ferdinand Céline was born.

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  2. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  3. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  4. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  5. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  6. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  7. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  8. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  9. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  10. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  11. George W. Bush born 1946
  12. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  13. Joe Biden born 1942
  14. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  15. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  16. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  17. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  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
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  28. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
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  31. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
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  34. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  35. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
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