Who Was Alive

Kim Jong-un

Supreme Leader of North Korea since 2011

Born 8 January 1984 · living, 42 as of September 2026

Who was alive at the same time as Kim Jong-un?

  1. Salvador Dalí
  2. Ronald Reagan
  3. Nelson Mandela
  4. Elizabeth II
  5. Neil Armstrong
  6. Pope Francis
  7. Joe Biden
  8. Donald Trump
  9. George W. Bush
  10. Bill Clinton
  11. Vladimir Putin
  12. Angela Merkel
  13. François Hollande
  14. Steve Jobs
  15. Bill Gates
  16. Michael Jackson
  17. Barack Obama
  18. Jimmy Wales
  19. Shakira
  20. Kim Jong-un
  21. Basshunter
  22. Cristiano Ronaldo
  23. Lionel Messi
  24. Corbin Bleu
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When Kim Jong-un was born, Barack Obama was 22, Donald Trump was 37, Michael Jackson was 25, Vladimir Putin was 31 and Ronald Reagan was 72.

Born during Kim Jong-un’s lifetime: Lionel Messi, Corbin Bleu, Basshunter, Cristiano Ronaldo, Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift and Selena Gomez.

Not quite contemporaries: Pablo Picasso died 11 years before Kim Jong-un was born, Charlie Chaplin died 7 years before Kim Jong-un was born, Mao Zedong died 8 years before Kim Jong-un was born and Charles de Gaulle died 14 years before Kim Jong-un was born.

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  2. Donald Trump born 1946
  3. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  4. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  5. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  6. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  7. George W. Bush born 1946
  8. Joe Biden born 1942
  9. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  10. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  11. Bill Gates born 1955
  12. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  13. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  14. Shakira born 1977
  15. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  16. Lionel Messi born 1987
  17. Corbin Bleu born 1989
  18. Bill Clinton born 1946
  19. Basshunter born 1984
  20. Angela Merkel born 1954
  21. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  22. François Hollande born 1954
  23. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  24. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  25. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  26. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  27. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  28. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  29. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  30. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  31. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  32. Elon Musk born 1971
  33. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  34. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  35. Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  36. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  37. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  38. Lady Gaga born 1986
  39. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  40. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  41. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  42. Madonna born 1958
  43. Kamala Harris born 1964
  44. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  45. Xi Jinping born 1953
  46. Naruhito born 1960
  47. Noam Chomsky born 1928
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  50. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  51. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  52. Bob Dylan born 1941
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  54. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  55. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  56. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  57. Justin Bieber born 1994
  58. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  59. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  60. Taylor Swift born 1989
  61. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  62. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  63. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  64. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  65. Charles III born 1948
  66. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  67. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  68. Eminem born 1972
  69. Beyoncé born 1981
  70. Selena Gomez born 1992
  71. Leo XIV born 1955
  72. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  73. Narendra Modi born 1950
  74. Rafael Correa born 1963
  75. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  76. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  77. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  78. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  79. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  80. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  81. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  82. Tenzin Gyatso born 1935
  83. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  84. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  85. Mark Zuckerberg born 1984
  86. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  87. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  88. Shinzō Abe 1954 – 2022
  89. Isaac Asimov 1919–1920 – 1992
  90. Tim Berners-Lee born 1955
  91. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  92. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  93. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  94. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  95. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  96. Robin Williams 1951 – 2014
  97. Jackie Chan born 1954
  98. Kim Il-sung 1912 – 1994
  99. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  100. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  101. Guillermo Lasso born 1955
  102. Céline Dion born 1968
  103. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  104. Roger Federer born 1981
  105. Lana Del Rey born 1985
  106. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  107. Alexander Lukashenka born 1954
  108. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  109. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  110. Woody Allen born 1935
  111. Tony Blair born 1953
  112. Rihanna born 1988
  113. Neymar born 1992
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  117. Rafael Nadal born 1986
  118. Greta Thunberg born 2003
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  120. Arnold Schwarzenegger born 1947
  121. David Cameron born 1966
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  126. Umberto Eco 1932 – 2016
  127. Boris Johnson born 1964
  128. Benazir Bhutto 1953 – 2007
  129. Jair Bolsonaro born 1955
  130. Diana, Princess of Wales 1961 – 1997
  131. Bashar al-Assad born 1965
  132. Audrey Hepburn 1929 – 1993
  133. Paul McCartney born 1942
  134. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva born 1945
  135. Anggun born 1974
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  138. Stephen King born 1947
  139. Theresa May born 1956
  140. Johnny Depp born 1963
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  142. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad born 1956
  143. Britney Spears born 1981
  144. Maya Angelou 1928 – 2014
  145. Sean Connery 1930 – 2020
  146. Zinedine Zidane born 1972
  147. Satyajit Ray 1921 – 1992
  148. Henry Kissinger 1923 – 2023
  149. Václav Havel 1936 – 2011
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