Who Was Alive

Marcel Proust

French novelist, critic and essayist

Born 10 July 1871 · died 18 November 1922, aged 51

Who was alive at the same time as Marcel Proust?

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Charles Darwin
  3. Karl Marx
  4. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  5. Leo Tolstoy
  6. Mark Twain
  7. Friedrich Nietzsche
  8. Thomas Edison
  9. Vincent van Gogh
  10. Sigmund Freud
  11. Marie Curie
  12. Mahatma Gandhi
  13. Vladimir Lenin
  14. Marcel Proust
  15. Winston Churchill
  16. Joseph Stalin
  17. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  18. Albert Einstein
  19. Pablo Picasso
  20. Charlie Chaplin
  21. Adolf Hitler
  22. Ronald Reagan
  23. John F. Kennedy
  24. Nelson Mandela
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When Marcel Proust was born, Karl Marx was 53, Vladimir Lenin was 1, Mahatma Gandhi was 1, Leo Tolstoy was 42 and Charles Darwin was 62.

When Marcel Proust died, Adolf Hitler was 33, Albert Einstein was 43, Ronald Reagan was 11, Vladimir Lenin was 52 and Nelson Mandela was 4.

Born during Marcel Proust’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Joseph Stalin, Pablo Picasso, Winston Churchill and Charlie Chaplin.

Not quite contemporaries: Abraham Lincoln died 6 years before Marcel Proust was born, Elizabeth II was born 4 years after Marcel Proust died, Charles Dickens died about a year before Marcel Proust was born and Martin Luther King Jr. was born 7 years after Marcel Proust died.

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  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  5. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  6. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  7. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  8. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  9. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  10. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  11. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  12. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  13. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  14. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  15. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  16. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  17. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  18. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  20. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  21. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  22. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  23. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  24. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  25. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  26. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  27. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  28. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  29. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  30. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  31. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  32. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  33. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  34. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  35. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  36. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  37. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  38. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  39. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  40. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  41. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  42. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  43. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  44. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  45. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  46. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  47. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  48. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  49. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  50. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  51. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  52. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  53. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  54. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  55. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  56. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  57. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  58. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  59. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  60. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  61. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  62. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  63. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  64. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  65. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  66. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  67. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  68. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  69. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  70. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  71. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  72. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  73. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  74. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  75. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  76. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  77. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  78. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  79. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  80. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  81. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  82. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  83. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  84. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  85. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  86. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  87. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  88. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  89. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  90. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  91. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  92. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  93. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  94. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  95. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  96. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  97. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  98. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  99. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  100. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  101. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  102. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  103. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  104. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  105. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  106. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  107. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  108. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  109. Isaac Asimov 1919–1920 – 1992
  110. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  111. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  112. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  113. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  114. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  115. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  116. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  117. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  118. Kim Il-sung 1912 – 1994
  119. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  120. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  121. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  122. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  123. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  124. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  125. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  126. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  127. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  128. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  129. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  130. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  131. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  132. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  133. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  134. William Butler Yeats 1865 – 1939
  135. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  136. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  137. Judy Garland 1922 – 1969
  138. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  139. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  140. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  141. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  142. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  143. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  144. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  145. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  146. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  147. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  148. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  149. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  150. John Steinbeck 1902 – 1968

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