Who Was Alive

Were Josip Broz Tito and Barack Obama alive at the same time?

Yes. Josip Broz Tito and Barack Obama were alive at the same time for 18 years, from 1961 to 1980.

Josip Broz Tito was 69 when Barack Obama was born.

Barack Obama was 18 when Josip Broz Tito died, aged 87.

Josip Broz Tito

Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman

Born 7 May 1892 · died 4 May 1980, aged 87

Barack Obama

44th President of the United States

Born 4 August 1961 · living, 65 as of September 2026

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Josip Broz Tito and Barack Obama in bold, with some of their best-known contemporaries. Drag across to see the age each reached in any year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.