Who was alive at the same time?
Pick anyone from history and see who shared the world with them, and how old everyone was. 1,962 lives, every date sourced.
Pick a year
The best-known people alive that year, with the age each reached during it. Everyone alive in 1789.
Lives that overlapped more than you’d think
- Leonardo da Vinci was 15 or 16 when Johannes Gutenberg died.
- Elizabeth I of England was 30 when Michelangelo died.
- Molière was 19 when Galileo Galilei died.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 14 when Isaac Newton died.
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 22 when Voltaire died.
- Karl Marx was 13 when Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died.
- Vladimir Lenin was 15 when Victor Hugo died.
- Vladimir Putin was 12 when Winston Churchill died.
- Michael Jackson was 14 when Pablo Picasso died.
Born on the same day
Browse by century
- 19th century BC 1
- 16th century BC 1
- 14th century BC 3
- 7th century BC 5
- 6th century BC 9
- 5th century BC 10
- 4th century BC 10
- 3rd century BC 7
- 2nd century BC 5
- 1st century BC 16
- 1st century 20
- 2nd century 5
- 3rd century 4
- 4th century 9
- 5th century 5
- 6th century 7
- 7th century 5
- 8th century 8
- 9th century 3
- 10th century 6
- 11th century 8
- 12th century 15
- 13th century 11
- 14th century 11
- 15th century 42
- 16th century 47
- 17th century 42
- 18th century 142
- 19th century 487
- 20th century 1014
- 21st century 4