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Jorge Luis Borges & Simone de Beauvoir

Did Jorge Luis Borges and Simone de Beauvoir live at the same time?

Yes. Jorge Luis Borges and Simone de Beauvoir lived at the same time for 78 years, from 1908 to 1986.[1][2][3][4]

Jorge Luis Borges · Simone de Beauvoir · Born in 1899 · Born in 1908

Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges
1899–1986
Literature
Labyrinths, Ficciones, master of the short story
Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir
1908–1986
Philosophy & Thought
The Second Sex, feminist existentialist
18991986
Jorge Luis Borges
Simone de Beauvoir
Jorge Luis Borges
Literature
Born in Buenos Aires
Died in Geneva
Simone de Beauvoir
Philosophy & Thought
Born in Paris
Died in 14th arrondissement of Paris

World Events During Their Overlap

1912 Sinking of the Titanic
1914 World War I begins
1917 Russian Revolution
1918 World War I ends; Spanish flu pandemic begins
1919 Treaty of Versailles signed
1920 League of Nations established
1928 Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
1929 Wall Street Crash; Great Depression begins
1933 Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
1936 Spanish Civil War begins
1939 World War II begins
1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor; US enters WWII
1944 D-Day: Allied invasion of Normandy
1945 Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; WWII ends
1945 United Nations founded
1947 India and Pakistan gain independence
1948 State of Israel established
1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted
1949 People's Republic of China proclaimed
1950 Korean War begins
1953 Watson and Crick discover DNA structure
1955 Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
1957 Sputnik launched; Space Age begins
1959 Cuban Revolution; Castro takes power
1961 Berlin Wall constructed
1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
1963 Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
1964 Civil Rights Act signed in the United States
1969 Apollo 11: first humans walk on the Moon
1971 Bangladesh Liberation War and independence
1973 1973 oil crisis
1975 Fall of Saigon; Vietnam War ends
1979 Iranian Revolution
1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster

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Sources

  1. Jorge Luis Borges — Wikipedia
  2. Jorge Luis Borges (Q909) — Wikidata
  3. Simone de Beauvoir — Wikipedia
  4. Simone de Beauvoir (Q7197) — Wikidata