Who Was Alive

Mariah Carey

American singer

Born 27 March 1969 · living, 57 as of September 2026

Who was alive at the same time as Mariah Carey?

  1. Pablo Picasso
  2. Charlie Chaplin
  3. Charles de Gaulle
  4. Mao Zedong
  5. Salvador Dalí
  6. Ronald Reagan
  7. Nelson Mandela
  8. Elizabeth II
  9. Pope Francis
  10. Joe Biden
  11. Donald Trump
  12. George W. Bush
  13. Bill Clinton
  14. Vladimir Putin
  15. Steve Jobs
  16. Bill Gates
  17. Michael Jackson
  18. Barack Obama
  19. Jimmy Wales
  20. Mariah Carey
  21. Shakira
  22. Basshunter
  23. Lionel Messi
  24. Corbin Bleu
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When Mariah Carey was born, Barack Obama was 7, Donald Trump was 22, Michael Jackson was 10, Vladimir Putin was 16 and Ronald Reagan was 58.

Born during Mariah Carey’s lifetime: Shakira, Lionel Messi, Corbin Bleu, Basshunter, Cristiano Ronaldo, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Elon Musk and Emmanuel Macron.

Not quite contemporaries: Albert Einstein died 14 years before Mariah Carey was born, Winston Churchill died 4 years before Mariah Carey was born, John F. Kennedy died 6 years before Mariah Carey was born and Martin Luther King Jr. died about a year before Mariah Carey 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. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  10. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  11. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  12. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  13. Bill Gates born 1955
  14. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  15. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  16. Shakira born 1977
  17. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  18. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  19. Lionel Messi born 1987
  20. Corbin Bleu born 1989
  21. Bill Clinton born 1946
  22. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  23. Basshunter born 1984
  24. Angela Merkel born 1954
  25. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  26. François Hollande born 1954
  27. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  28. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  29. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  30. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  31. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  32. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  33. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  34. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  35. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  36. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  37. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  38. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  39. Elon Musk born 1971
  40. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  41. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  42. Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  43. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  44. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  45. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  46. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  47. Lady Gaga born 1986
  48. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  49. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  50. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
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  52. Kamala Harris born 1964
  53. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  54. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  55. Xi Jinping born 1953
  56. Naruhito born 1960
  57. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  58. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  59. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  60. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  61. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  62. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  63. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  64. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  65. Bob Dylan born 1941
  66. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  67. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  68. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  69. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  70. Justin Bieber born 1994
  71. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  72. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  73. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  74. Taylor Swift born 1989
  75. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  76. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  77. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  78. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  79. Charles III born 1948
  80. Kim Jong-un born 1984
  81. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  82. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  83. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
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  86. Selena Gomez born 1992
  87. Leo XIV born 1955
  88. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  89. Narendra Modi born 1950
  90. Rafael Correa born 1963
  91. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  92. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  93. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  94. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  95. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  96. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  97. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  98. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  99. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  100. Tenzin Gyatso born 1935
  101. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  102. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  103. Mark Zuckerberg born 1984
  104. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  105. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  106. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  107. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  108. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  109. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  110. Shinzō Abe 1954 – 2022
  111. Isaac Asimov 1919–1920 – 1992
  112. Tim Berners-Lee born 1955
  113. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  114. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
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  117. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  118. Robin Williams 1951 – 2014
  119. Jackie Chan born 1954
  120. Kim Il-sung 1912 – 1994
  121. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  122. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  123. Guillermo Lasso born 1955
  124. Céline Dion born 1968
  125. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  126. Roger Federer born 1981
  127. Lana Del Rey born 1985
  128. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  129. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  130. Alexander Lukashenka born 1954
  131. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  132. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  133. Woody Allen born 1935
  134. Tony Blair born 1953
  135. Rihanna born 1988
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  137. Malala Yousafzai born 1997
  138. Scarlett Johansson born 1984
  139. Yasser Arafat 1929 – 2004
  140. Rafael Nadal born 1986
  141. Greta Thunberg born 2003
  142. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  143. Judy Garland 1922 – 1969
  144. Ban Ki-moon born 1944
  145. Arnold Schwarzenegger born 1947
  146. David Cameron born 1966
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  148. Brigitte Bardot 1934 – 2025
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