Who Was Alive

Michael Jordan

American basketball player and businessman

Born 17 February 1963 · living, 63 as of September 2026

Who was alive at the same time as Michael Jordan?

  1. Winston Churchill
  2. Pablo Picasso
  3. Charlie Chaplin
  4. Mao Zedong
  5. Salvador Dalí
  6. Ronald Reagan
  7. John F. Kennedy
  8. Nelson Mandela
  9. Elizabeth II
  10. Che Guevara
  11. Martin Luther King Jr.
  12. Pope Francis
  13. Joe Biden
  14. Donald Trump
  15. George W. Bush
  16. Vladimir Putin
  17. Steve Jobs
  18. Bill Gates
  19. Michael Jackson
  20. Barack Obama
  21. Michael Jordan
  22. Jimmy Wales
  23. Shakira
  24. Lionel Messi
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When Michael Jordan was born, Barack Obama was 1, Donald Trump was 16, Michael Jackson was 4, Vladimir Putin was 10 and Ronald Reagan was 52.

Born during Michael Jordan’s lifetime: Jimmy Wales, Shakira, Lionel Messi, Corbin Bleu, Basshunter, Cristiano Ronaldo, Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Elon Musk.

Not quite contemporaries: Albert Einstein died 8 years before Michael Jordan was born, Joseph Stalin died 10 years before Michael Jordan was born, Marilyn Monroe died about a year before Michael Jordan was born and George Orwell died 13 years before Michael Jordan was born.

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All 1,092 contemporaries we track

  1. Barack Obama born 1961
  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. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  11. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  12. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  13. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  14. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  15. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  16. Bill Gates born 1955
  17. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  18. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  19. Shakira born 1977
  20. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  21. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  22. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  23. Lionel Messi born 1987
  24. Corbin Bleu born 1989
  25. Bill Clinton born 1946
  26. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  27. Basshunter born 1984
  28. Angela Merkel born 1954
  29. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  30. François Hollande born 1954
  31. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  32. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  33. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  34. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  35. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  36. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  37. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  38. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  39. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  40. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  41. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  42. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  43. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  44. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  45. Elon Musk born 1971
  46. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  47. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  48. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  49. Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  50. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  51. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  52. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  53. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  54. Lady Gaga born 1986
  55. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  56. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  57. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  58. Madonna born 1958
  59. Kamala Harris born 1964
  60. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  61. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  62. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  63. Xi Jinping born 1953
  64. Naruhito born 1960
  65. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  66. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  67. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  68. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  69. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  70. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  71. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  72. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  73. Bob Dylan born 1941
  74. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  75. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  76. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  77. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  78. Justin Bieber born 1994
  79. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  80. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  81. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  82. Taylor Swift born 1989
  83. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  84. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  85. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  86. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  87. Charles III born 1948
  88. Kim Jong-un born 1984
  89. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  90. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  91. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  92. Eminem born 1972
  93. Beyoncé born 1981
  94. Selena Gomez born 1992
  95. Leo XIV born 1955
  96. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  97. Narendra Modi born 1950
  98. Rafael Correa born 1963
  99. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  100. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  101. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  102. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  103. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  104. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  105. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  106. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  107. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  108. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  109. Tenzin Gyatso born 1935
  110. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  111. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  112. Mark Zuckerberg born 1984
  113. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  114. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  115. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  116. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  117. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  118. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  119. Shinzō Abe 1954 – 2022
  120. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  121. Isaac Asimov 1919–1920 – 1992
  122. Tim Berners-Lee born 1955
  123. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  124. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  125. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  126. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  127. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  128. Robin Williams 1951 – 2014
  129. Jackie Chan born 1954
  130. Kim Il-sung 1912 – 1994
  131. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  132. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  133. Guillermo Lasso born 1955
  134. Céline Dion born 1968
  135. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  136. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  137. Roger Federer born 1981
  138. Lana Del Rey born 1985
  139. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  140. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  141. Alexander Lukashenka born 1954
  142. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  143. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  144. Woody Allen born 1935
  145. Tony Blair born 1953
  146. Rihanna born 1988
  147. Neymar born 1992
  148. Malala Yousafzai born 1997
  149. Scarlett Johansson born 1984
  150. Yasser Arafat 1929 – 2004

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