Who Was Alive

Were Leonid Brezhnev and Barack Obama alive at the same time?

Yes. Leonid Brezhnev and Barack Obama were alive at the same time for 21 years, from 1961 to 1982.

Leonid Brezhnev was 54 when Barack Obama was born.

Barack Obama was 21 when Leonid Brezhnev died, aged 75.

Leonid Brezhnev

General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Born 6 December 1906 (Julian calendar) · died 10 November 1982, aged 75

Barack Obama

44th President of the United States

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

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Leonid Brezhnev 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.