Who was born first, Henry Ford or James Joyce?

Henry Ford was born first, in 1863. James Joyce was born in 1882.

Henry Ford & James Joyce

Did Henry Ford and James Joyce live at the same time?

Yes. Henry Ford and James Joyce lived at the same time for 59 years, from 1882 to 1941.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Henry Ford · James Joyce · Born in 1863 · Born in 1882

Henry Ford

1863–1947

Business & Industry

Assembly line, Model T automobile

James Joyce

1882–1941

Literature

Ulysses, literary revolutionary

18631947

Henry Ford

James Joyce

Henry Ford

Business & Industry

Born in Springwells Township

Died in Dearborn

James Joyce

Literature

Born in Rathgar

Died in Zurich

World Events During Their Overlap

1884 Berlin Conference partitions Africa

1893 New Zealand becomes first country to grant women's suffrage

1896 First modern Olympic Games in Athens

1898 Spanish-American War

1903 Wright brothers achieve powered flight

1905 Einstein publishes theory of special relativity

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

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59 years overlap

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59 years overlap

Sources

Henry Ford — Wikipedia
Henry Ford (Q8768) — Wikidata
James Joyce — Wikipedia
James Joyce (Q6882) — Wikidata