Who Was Alive

Adele

English singer-songwriter

Born 5 May 1988 · living, 38 as of September 2026

Who was alive at the same time as Adele?

  1. Salvador Dalí
  2. Ronald Reagan
  3. Nelson Mandela
  4. Elizabeth II
  5. Neil Armstrong
  6. Pope Francis
  7. Joe Biden
  8. Donald Trump
  9. George W. Bush
  10. Bill Clinton
  11. Vladimir Putin
  12. Angela Merkel
  13. François Hollande
  14. Steve Jobs
  15. Bill Gates
  16. Michael Jackson
  17. Barack Obama
  18. Jimmy Wales
  19. Shakira
  20. Basshunter
  21. Cristiano Ronaldo
  22. Lionel Messi
  23. Adele
  24. Corbin Bleu
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When Adele was born, Barack Obama was 26, Donald Trump was 41, Michael Jackson was 29, Vladimir Putin was 35 and Ronald Reagan was 77.

Born during Adele’s lifetime: Corbin Bleu, Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez, Neymar, Malala Yousafzai, Greta Thunberg and Emma Watson.

Not quite contemporaries: Charlie Chaplin died 11 years before Adele was born, Mao Zedong died 12 years before Adele was born, Elvis Presley died 11 years before Adele was born and J. R. R. Tolkien died 15 years before Adele was born.

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  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. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  10. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  11. Bill Gates born 1955
  12. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  13. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  14. Shakira born 1977
  15. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  16. Lionel Messi born 1987
  17. Corbin Bleu born 1989
  18. Bill Clinton born 1946
  19. Basshunter born 1984
  20. Angela Merkel born 1954
  21. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  22. François Hollande born 1954
  23. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  24. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  25. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  26. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  27. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  28. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  29. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  30. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  31. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  32. Elon Musk born 1971
  33. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  34. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  35. Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  36. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  37. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  38. Lady Gaga born 1986
  39. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
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  42. Kamala Harris born 1964
  43. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
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  45. Naruhito born 1960
  46. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  47. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
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  60. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  61. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
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  63. Kim Jong-un born 1984
  64. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  65. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  66. Eminem born 1972
  67. Beyoncé born 1981
  68. Selena Gomez born 1992
  69. Leo XIV born 1955
  70. Narendra Modi born 1950
  71. Rafael Correa born 1963
  72. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
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  74. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  75. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  76. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  77. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  78. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  79. Tenzin Gyatso born 1935
  80. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  81. Anna Netrebko born 1971
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  84. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  85. Shinzō Abe 1954 – 2022
  86. Isaac Asimov 1919–1920 – 1992
  87. Tim Berners-Lee born 1955
  88. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  89. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  90. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  91. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  92. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  93. Robin Williams 1951 – 2014
  94. Jackie Chan born 1954
  95. Kim Il-sung 1912 – 1994
  96. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  97. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  98. Guillermo Lasso born 1955
  99. Céline Dion born 1968
  100. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  101. Roger Federer born 1981
  102. Lana Del Rey born 1985
  103. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  104. Alexander Lukashenka born 1954
  105. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  106. Woody Allen born 1935
  107. Tony Blair born 1953
  108. Rihanna born 1988
  109. Neymar born 1992
  110. Malala Yousafzai born 1997
  111. Scarlett Johansson born 1984
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  113. Rafael Nadal born 1986
  114. Greta Thunberg born 2003
  115. Ban Ki-moon born 1944
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  125. Jair Bolsonaro born 1955
  126. Diana, Princess of Wales 1961 – 1997
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  128. Audrey Hepburn 1929 – 1993
  129. Paul McCartney born 1942
  130. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva born 1945
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  135. Theresa May born 1956
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  141. Sean Connery 1930 – 2020
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  144. Henry Kissinger 1923 – 2023
  145. Václav Havel 1936 – 2011
  146. Bhumibol Adulyadej 1927 – 2016
  147. Elizabeth Taylor 1932 – 2011
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