Who Was Alive

George W. Bush

43rd President of the United States

Born 6 July 1946 · living, 80 as of September 2026

Who was alive at the same time as George W. Bush?

  1. Mahatma Gandhi
  2. Winston Churchill
  3. Joseph Stalin
  4. Albert Einstein
  5. Pablo Picasso
  6. Charlie Chaplin
  7. Mao Zedong
  8. Salvador Dalí
  9. Ronald Reagan
  10. John F. Kennedy
  11. Nelson Mandela
  12. Elizabeth II
  13. Marilyn Monroe
  14. Martin Luther King Jr.
  15. Pope Francis
  16. Joe Biden
  17. Donald Trump
  18. George W. Bush
  19. Vladimir Putin
  20. Bill Gates
  21. Michael Jackson
  22. Barack Obama
  23. Jimmy Wales
  24. Shakira
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When George W. Bush was born, Donald Trump was under a year old, Albert Einstein was 67, Ronald Reagan was 35, Nelson Mandela was 27 and Mahatma Gandhi was 76.

Born during George W. Bush’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Bill Gates, Jimmy Wales, Shakira, Steve Jobs and Lionel Messi.

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler died about a year before George W. Bush was born, Thomas Edison died 15 years before George W. Bush was born, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk died 8 years before George W. Bush was born and Sigmund Freud died 7 years before George W. Bush was born.

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All 1,174 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. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  9. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  10. Joe Biden born 1942
  11. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  12. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  13. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  14. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  15. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  16. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  17. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  18. Bill Gates born 1955
  19. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  20. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  21. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  22. Shakira born 1977
  23. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  24. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  25. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  26. Lionel Messi born 1987
  27. Corbin Bleu born 1989
  28. Bill Clinton born 1946
  29. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  30. Basshunter born 1984
  31. Angela Merkel born 1954
  32. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  33. François Hollande born 1954
  34. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  35. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  36. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  37. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  38. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  39. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  40. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  41. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  42. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  43. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  44. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  45. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  46. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  47. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  48. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  49. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  50. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  51. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  52. Elon Musk born 1971
  53. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  54. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  55. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  56. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  57. Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  58. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  59. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  60. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  61. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  62. Lady Gaga born 1986
  63. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  64. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  65. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  66. Madonna born 1958
  67. Kamala Harris born 1964
  68. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  69. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  70. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  71. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  72. Xi Jinping born 1953
  73. Naruhito born 1960
  74. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  75. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  76. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  77. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  78. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  79. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  80. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  81. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  82. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  83. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  84. Bob Dylan born 1941
  85. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  86. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  87. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  88. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  89. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  90. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  91. Justin Bieber born 1994
  92. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  93. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  94. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  95. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  96. Taylor Swift born 1989
  97. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  98. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  99. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  100. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  101. Charles III born 1948
  102. Kim Jong-un born 1984
  103. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  104. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  105. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  106. Eminem born 1972
  107. Beyoncé born 1981
  108. Selena Gomez born 1992
  109. Leo XIV born 1955
  110. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  111. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  112. Narendra Modi born 1950
  113. Rafael Correa born 1963
  114. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  115. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  116. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  117. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  118. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  119. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  120. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  121. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  122. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  123. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  124. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  125. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  126. Tenzin Gyatso born 1935
  127. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  128. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  129. Mark Zuckerberg born 1984
  130. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  131. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  132. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  133. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  134. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  135. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  136. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  137. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  138. Shinzō Abe 1954 – 2022
  139. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  140. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  141. Isaac Asimov 1919–1920 – 1992
  142. Tim Berners-Lee born 1955
  143. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  144. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  145. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  146. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  147. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  148. Robin Williams 1951 – 2014
  149. Jackie Chan born 1954
  150. Kim Il-sung 1912 – 1994

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