Who Was Alive

Louis Armstrong

American jazz musician, trumpeter and singer

Born 4 August 1901 · died 6 July 1971, aged 69

Who was alive at the same time as Louis Armstrong?

  1. Leo Tolstoy
  2. Mark Twain
  3. Thomas Edison
  4. Sigmund Freud
  5. Mahatma Gandhi
  6. Vladimir Lenin
  7. Winston Churchill
  8. Joseph Stalin
  9. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  10. Albert Einstein
  11. Pablo Picasso
  12. Charlie Chaplin
  13. Adolf Hitler
  14. Louis Armstrong
  15. Ronald Reagan
  16. John F. Kennedy
  17. Nelson Mandela
  18. Elizabeth II
  19. Joe Biden
  20. Donald Trump
  21. George W. Bush
  22. Vladimir Putin
  23. Michael Jackson
  24. Barack Obama
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Louis Armstrong was born, Adolf Hitler was 12, Albert Einstein was 22, Vladimir Lenin was 31, Mahatma Gandhi was 31 and Leo Tolstoy was 72.

When Louis Armstrong died, Barack Obama was 9, Donald Trump was 25, Michael Jackson was 12, Vladimir Putin was 18 and Ronald Reagan was 60.

Born during Louis Armstrong’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush and Joe Biden.

Not quite contemporaries: Vincent van Gogh died 11 years before Louis Armstrong was born, Friedrich Nietzsche died about a year before Louis Armstrong was born, Shakira was born 6 years after Louis Armstrong died and Oscar Wilde died about a year before Louis Armstrong was born.

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All 1,179 contemporaries we track

  1. Barack Obama born 1961
  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. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  9. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  10. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  11. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  12. George W. Bush born 1946
  13. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  14. Joe Biden born 1942
  15. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  16. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  17. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  18. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  19. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  21. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  22. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  23. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  24. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  25. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  26. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  27. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  28. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  29. Bill Gates born 1955
  30. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  31. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  32. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  33. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  34. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  35. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  36. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  37. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  38. Bill Clinton born 1946
  39. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  40. Angela Merkel born 1954
  41. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  42. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  43. François Hollande born 1954
  44. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  45. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  46. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  47. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  48. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  49. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  50. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  51. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  52. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  53. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  54. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  55. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  56. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  57. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  58. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  59. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  60. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  61. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  62. Elon Musk born 1971
  63. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  64. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  65. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  66. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  67. Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  68. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  69. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  70. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  71. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  72. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  73. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  74. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  75. Madonna born 1958
  76. Kamala Harris born 1964
  77. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  78. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  79. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  80. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  81. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  82. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  83. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  84. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  85. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  86. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  87. Xi Jinping born 1953
  88. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  89. Naruhito born 1960
  90. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  91. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  92. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  93. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  94. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  95. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  96. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  97. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  98. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  99. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  100. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  101. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  102. Bob Dylan born 1941
  103. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  104. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  105. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  106. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  107. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  108. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  109. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  110. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  111. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  112. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  113. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  114. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  115. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  116. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  117. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  118. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  119. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  120. Charles III born 1948
  121. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  122. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  123. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  124. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  125. Leo XIV born 1955
  126. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  127. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  128. Narendra Modi born 1950
  129. Rafael Correa born 1963
  130. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  131. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  132. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  133. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  134. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  135. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  136. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  137. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  138. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  139. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  140. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  141. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  142. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  143. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  144. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  145. Tenzin Gyatso born 1935
  146. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  147. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  148. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  149. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  150. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971

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