Were Elias Canetti and Barack Obama alive at the same time?
Yes. Elias Canetti and Barack Obama were alive at the same time for 33 years, from 1961 to 1994.
Elias Canetti was 56 when Barack Obama was born.
Barack Obama was 33 when Elias Canetti died, aged 89.
Elias Canetti
Bulgarian-born Swiss and British Jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer
Born 25 July 1905 · died 14 August 1994, aged 89