Who Was Alive

Angela Merkel

Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021

Born 17 July 1954 · living, 72 as of September 2026

Who was alive at the same time as Angela Merkel?

  1. Winston Churchill
  2. Albert Einstein
  3. Pablo Picasso
  4. Charlie Chaplin
  5. Mao Zedong
  6. Salvador Dalí
  7. Ronald Reagan
  8. John F. Kennedy
  9. Nelson Mandela
  10. Elizabeth II
  11. Marilyn Monroe
  12. Martin Luther King Jr.
  13. Pope Francis
  14. Joe Biden
  15. Donald Trump
  16. George W. Bush
  17. Vladimir Putin
  18. Angela Merkel
  19. Steve Jobs
  20. Bill Gates
  21. Michael Jackson
  22. Barack Obama
  23. Jimmy Wales
  24. Shakira
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When Angela Merkel was born, Donald Trump was 8, Albert Einstein was 75, Vladimir Putin was 1, Ronald Reagan was 43 and Nelson Mandela was 35.

Born during Angela Merkel’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Michael Jackson, Bill Gates, Jimmy Wales, Shakira, Steve Jobs, Lionel Messi and Corbin Bleu.

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler died 9 years before Angela Merkel was born, Mahatma Gandhi died 6 years before Angela Merkel was born, Joseph Stalin died about a year before Angela Merkel was born and Sigmund Freud died 15 years before Angela Merkel was born.

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All 1,136 contemporaries we track

  1. Barack Obama born 1961
  2. Donald Trump born 1946
  3. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  4. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  5. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  6. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  7. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  8. George W. Bush born 1946
  9. Joe Biden born 1942
  10. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  11. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  12. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  13. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  14. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  15. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  16. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  17. Bill Gates born 1955
  18. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  19. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  20. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  21. Shakira born 1977
  22. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  23. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  24. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  25. Lionel Messi born 1987
  26. Corbin Bleu born 1989
  27. Bill Clinton born 1946
  28. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  29. Basshunter born 1984
  30. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  31. François Hollande born 1954
  32. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  33. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  34. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  35. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  36. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  37. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  38. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  39. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  40. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  41. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  42. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  43. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  44. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  45. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  46. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  47. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  48. Elon Musk born 1971
  49. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  50. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  51. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  52. Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  53. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  54. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  55. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  56. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  57. Lady Gaga born 1986
  58. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  59. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  60. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  61. Madonna born 1958
  62. Kamala Harris born 1964
  63. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  64. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  65. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  66. Xi Jinping born 1953
  67. Naruhito born 1960
  68. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  69. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  70. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  71. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  72. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  73. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  74. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  75. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  76. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  77. Bob Dylan born 1941
  78. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  79. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  80. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  81. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  82. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  83. Justin Bieber born 1994
  84. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  85. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  86. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  87. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  88. Taylor Swift born 1989
  89. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  90. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  91. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  92. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  93. Charles III born 1948
  94. Kim Jong-un born 1984
  95. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  96. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  97. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  98. Eminem born 1972
  99. Beyoncé born 1981
  100. Selena Gomez born 1992
  101. Leo XIV born 1955
  102. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  103. Narendra Modi born 1950
  104. Rafael Correa born 1963
  105. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  106. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  107. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  108. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  109. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  110. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  111. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  112. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  113. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  114. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  115. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  116. Tenzin Gyatso born 1935
  117. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  118. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  119. Mark Zuckerberg born 1984
  120. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  121. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  122. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  123. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  124. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  125. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  126. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  127. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  128. Shinzō Abe 1954 – 2022
  129. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  130. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  131. Isaac Asimov 1919–1920 – 1992
  132. Tim Berners-Lee born 1955
  133. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  134. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  135. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  136. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  137. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  138. Robin Williams 1951 – 2014
  139. Jackie Chan born 1954
  140. Kim Il-sung 1912 – 1994
  141. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  142. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  143. Guillermo Lasso born 1955
  144. Céline Dion born 1968
  145. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  146. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  147. Roger Federer born 1981
  148. Lana Del Rey born 1985
  149. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  150. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004

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