Who Was Alive

Bob Dylan

American singer-songwriter

Born 24 May 1941 · living, 85 as of September 2026

Who was alive at the same time as Bob Dylan?

  1. Rabindranath Tagore
  2. Mahatma Gandhi
  3. Winston Churchill
  4. Joseph Stalin
  5. Albert Einstein
  6. Pablo Picasso
  7. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  8. Charlie Chaplin
  9. Adolf Hitler
  10. Salvador Dalí
  11. Ronald Reagan
  12. John F. Kennedy
  13. Nelson Mandela
  14. Elizabeth II
  15. Marilyn Monroe
  16. Martin Luther King Jr.
  17. Bob Dylan
  18. Joe Biden
  19. Donald Trump
  20. George W. Bush
  21. Vladimir Putin
  22. Bill Gates
  23. Michael Jackson
  24. Barack Obama
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When Bob Dylan was born, Adolf Hitler was 52, Albert Einstein was 62, Ronald Reagan was 30, Nelson Mandela was 22 and Mahatma Gandhi was 71.

Born during Bob Dylan’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Bill Gates and Jimmy Wales.

Not quite contemporaries: Thomas Edison died 10 years before Bob Dylan was born, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk died 3 years before Bob Dylan was born, Sigmund Freud died 2 years before Bob Dylan was born and Marie Curie died 7 years before Bob Dylan was born.

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  1. Barack Obama born 1961
  2. Donald Trump born 1946
  3. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  4. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  5. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  6. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  7. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  8. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  9. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  10. George W. Bush born 1946
  11. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  12. Joe Biden born 1942
  13. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  14. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  15. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  16. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  17. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  18. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  19. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  20. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  21. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  22. Bill Gates born 1955
  23. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  24. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  25. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  26. Shakira born 1977
  27. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  28. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  29. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  30. Lionel Messi born 1987
  31. Corbin Bleu born 1989
  32. Bill Clinton born 1946
  33. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  34. Basshunter born 1984
  35. Angela Merkel born 1954
  36. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  37. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  38. François Hollande born 1954
  39. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  40. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  41. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  42. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  43. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  44. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  45. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  46. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  47. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  48. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  49. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  50. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  51. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  52. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  53. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  54. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  55. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  56. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  57. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  58. Elon Musk born 1971
  59. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  60. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  61. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  62. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  63. Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  64. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  65. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  66. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  67. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  68. Lady Gaga born 1986
  69. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  70. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  71. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  72. Madonna born 1958
  73. Kamala Harris born 1964
  74. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  75. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  76. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  77. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  78. Xi Jinping born 1953
  79. Naruhito born 1960
  80. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  81. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  82. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  83. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  84. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  85. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  86. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  87. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  88. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  89. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  90. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  91. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  92. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  93. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  94. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  95. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  96. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  97. Justin Bieber born 1994
  98. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  99. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  100. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  101. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  102. Taylor Swift born 1989
  103. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  104. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  105. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  106. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  107. Charles III born 1948
  108. Kim Jong-un born 1984
  109. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  110. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  111. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  112. Eminem born 1972
  113. Beyoncé born 1981
  114. Selena Gomez born 1992
  115. Leo XIV born 1955
  116. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  117. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  118. Narendra Modi born 1950
  119. Rafael Correa born 1963
  120. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  121. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  122. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  123. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  124. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  125. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  126. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  127. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  128. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  129. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  130. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  131. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  132. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  133. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  134. Tenzin Gyatso born 1935
  135. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  136. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  137. Mark Zuckerberg born 1984
  138. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  139. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  140. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  141. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  142. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  143. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  144. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  145. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  146. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  147. Shinzō Abe 1954 – 2022
  148. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  149. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  150. Isaac Asimov 1919–1920 – 1992

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