Who Was Alive

John Lennon

British musician

Born 9 October 1940 · died 8 December 1980, aged 40

Who was alive at the same time as John Lennon?

  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. John Lennon
  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 John Lennon was born, Adolf Hitler was 51, Albert Einstein was 61, Ronald Reagan was 29, Nelson Mandela was 22 and Mahatma Gandhi was 71.

When John Lennon died, Barack Obama was 19, Donald Trump was 34, Michael Jackson was 22, Vladimir Putin was 28 and Ronald Reagan was 69.

Born during John Lennon’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 9 years before John Lennon was born, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk died 2 years before John Lennon was born, Sigmund Freud died about a year before John Lennon was born and Marie Curie died 6 years before John Lennon was born.

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  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. Bill Clinton born 1946
  31. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  32. Angela Merkel born 1954
  33. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  34. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  35. François Hollande born 1954
  36. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  37. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  38. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
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  40. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  41. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  42. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  43. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  44. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
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  59. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  60. Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
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  63. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  64. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  65. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  66. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  67. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  68. Madonna born 1958
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  71. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  72. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  73. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
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  75. Naruhito born 1960
  76. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  77. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  78. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  79. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
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  81. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
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  84. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
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  89. Pelé 1940 – 2022
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  94. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  95. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  96. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  97. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  98. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  99. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  100. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  101. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
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  103. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  104. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
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  109. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  110. Narendra Modi born 1950
  111. Rafael Correa born 1963
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  114. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
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  116. Steven Spielberg born 1946
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  123. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  124. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
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  128. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  129. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  130. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
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  132. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  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
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  139. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
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  146. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
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  148. Robin Williams 1951 – 2014
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