Who Was Alive

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

Leader of the Islamic State

Born 28 July 1971 · died 27 October 2019, aged 48

Who was alive at the same time as Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi?

  1. Pablo Picasso
  2. Charlie Chaplin
  3. Mao Zedong
  4. Salvador Dalí
  5. Ronald Reagan
  6. Nelson Mandela
  7. Elizabeth II
  8. Pope Francis
  9. Joe Biden
  10. Donald Trump
  11. George W. Bush
  12. Bill Clinton
  13. Vladimir Putin
  14. Angela Merkel
  15. Steve Jobs
  16. Bill Gates
  17. Michael Jackson
  18. Barack Obama
  19. Jimmy Wales
  20. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
  21. Shakira
  22. Basshunter
  23. Lionel Messi
  24. Corbin Bleu
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was born, Barack Obama was 9, Donald Trump was 25, Michael Jackson was 12, Vladimir Putin was 18 and Ronald Reagan was 60.

When Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi died, Barack Obama was 58, Donald Trump was 73, Vladimir Putin was 67, George W. Bush was 73 and Joe Biden was 76.

Born during Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s lifetime: Shakira, Lionel Messi, Corbin Bleu, Basshunter, Cristiano Ronaldo, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Emmanuel Macron and Lady Gaga.

Not quite contemporaries: Winston Churchill died 6 years before Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was born, John F. Kennedy died 8 years before Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was born, Martin Luther King Jr. died 3 years before Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was born and Marilyn Monroe died 9 years before Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was born.

Compare

All 1,029 contemporaries we track

  1. Barack Obama born 1961
  2. Donald Trump born 1946
  3. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  4. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  5. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  6. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  7. George W. Bush born 1946
  8. Joe Biden born 1942
  9. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  10. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  11. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  12. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  13. Bill Gates born 1955
  14. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  15. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  16. Shakira born 1977
  17. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  18. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  19. Lionel Messi born 1987
  20. Corbin Bleu born 1989
  21. Bill Clinton born 1946
  22. Basshunter born 1984
  23. Angela Merkel born 1954
  24. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  25. François Hollande born 1954
  26. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  27. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  28. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  29. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  30. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  31. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  32. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  33. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  34. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  35. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  36. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  37. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  38. Elon Musk born 1971
  39. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  40. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  41. Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  42. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  43. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  44. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  45. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  46. Lady Gaga born 1986
  47. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  48. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  49. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  50. Madonna born 1958
  51. Kamala Harris born 1964
  52. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  53. Xi Jinping born 1953
  54. Naruhito born 1960
  55. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  56. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  57. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  58. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  59. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  60. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  61. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  62. Bob Dylan born 1941
  63. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  64. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  65. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  66. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  67. Justin Bieber born 1994
  68. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  69. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  70. Taylor Swift born 1989
  71. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  72. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  73. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  74. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  75. Charles III born 1948
  76. Kim Jong-un born 1984
  77. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  78. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  79. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  80. Eminem born 1972
  81. Beyoncé born 1981
  82. Selena Gomez born 1992
  83. Leo XIV born 1955
  84. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  85. Narendra Modi born 1950
  86. Rafael Correa born 1963
  87. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  88. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  89. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  90. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  91. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  92. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  93. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  94. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  95. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  96. Tenzin Gyatso born 1935
  97. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  98. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  99. Mark Zuckerberg born 1984
  100. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  101. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  102. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  103. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  104. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  105. Shinzō Abe 1954 – 2022
  106. Isaac Asimov 1919–1920 – 1992
  107. Tim Berners-Lee born 1955
  108. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  109. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  110. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  111. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  112. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  113. Robin Williams 1951 – 2014
  114. Jackie Chan born 1954
  115. Kim Il-sung 1912 – 1994
  116. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  117. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  118. Guillermo Lasso born 1955
  119. Céline Dion born 1968
  120. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  121. Roger Federer born 1981
  122. Lana Del Rey born 1985
  123. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  124. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  125. Alexander Lukashenka born 1954
  126. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  127. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  128. Woody Allen born 1935
  129. Tony Blair born 1953
  130. Rihanna born 1988
  131. Neymar born 1992
  132. Malala Yousafzai born 1997
  133. Scarlett Johansson born 1984
  134. Yasser Arafat 1929 – 2004
  135. Rafael Nadal born 1986
  136. Greta Thunberg born 2003
  137. Ban Ki-moon born 1944
  138. Arnold Schwarzenegger born 1947
  139. David Cameron born 1966
  140. Linus Torvalds born 1969
  141. Brigitte Bardot 1934 – 2025
  142. Novak Djokovic born 1987
  143. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  144. Hebe Camargo 1929 – 2012
  145. Umberto Eco 1932 – 2016
  146. Boris Johnson born 1964
  147. Benazir Bhutto 1953 – 2007
  148. Jair Bolsonaro born 1955
  149. Diana, Princess of Wales 1961 – 1997
  150. Bashar al-Assad born 1965

The 150 best known are listed.