Who Was Alive

Were Kurt Gödel and Barack Obama alive at the same time?

Yes. Kurt Gödel and Barack Obama were alive at the same time for 16 years, from 1961 to 1978.

Kurt Gödel was 55 when Barack Obama was born.

Barack Obama was 16 when Kurt Gödel died, aged 71.

Kurt Gödel

Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics

Born 28 April 1906 · died 14 January 1978, aged 71

Barack Obama

44th President of the United States

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

  1. Albert Einstein
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  3. Kurt Gödel
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  7. Vladimir Putin
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Kurt Gödel 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.