Who Was Alive

Pope Francis

266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025

Born 17 December 1936 · died 21 April 2025, aged 88

Who was alive at the same time as Pope Francis?

  1. Sigmund Freud
  2. Rabindranath Tagore
  3. Mahatma Gandhi
  4. Winston Churchill
  5. Joseph Stalin
  6. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  7. Albert Einstein
  8. Pablo Picasso
  9. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  10. Charlie Chaplin
  11. Adolf Hitler
  12. Salvador Dalí
  13. Ronald Reagan
  14. John F. Kennedy
  15. Nelson Mandela
  16. Elizabeth II
  17. Martin Luther King Jr.
  18. Pope Francis
  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 Pope Francis was born, Adolf Hitler was 47, Albert Einstein was 57, Ronald Reagan was 25, Nelson Mandela was 18 and Mahatma Gandhi was 67.

When Pope Francis died, Barack Obama was 63, Donald Trump was 78, Vladimir Putin was 72, George W. Bush was 78 and Joe Biden was 82.

Born during Pope Francis’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Bill Gates and Jimmy Wales.

Not quite contemporaries: Vladimir Lenin died 12 years before Pope Francis was born, Thomas Edison died 5 years before Pope Francis was born, Marie Curie died 2 years before Pope Francis was born and Franz Kafka died 12 years before Pope Francis was born.

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All 1,237 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. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  9. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  10. George W. Bush born 1946
  11. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  12. Joe Biden born 1942
  13. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  14. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  15. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  16. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  17. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  18. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  19. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  20. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  21. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  22. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  23. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  24. Bill Gates born 1955
  25. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  26. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  27. Shakira born 1977
  28. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  29. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  30. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  31. Lionel Messi born 1987
  32. Corbin Bleu born 1989
  33. Bill Clinton born 1946
  34. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  35. Basshunter born 1984
  36. Angela Merkel born 1954
  37. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  38. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  39. François Hollande born 1954
  40. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  41. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  42. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  43. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  44. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  45. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  46. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  47. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  48. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  49. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  50. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  51. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  52. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  53. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  54. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  55. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  56. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  57. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  58. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  59. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  60. Elon Musk born 1971
  61. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  62. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  63. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  64. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  65. Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  66. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  67. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  68. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  69. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  70. Lady Gaga born 1986
  71. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  72. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  73. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  74. Madonna born 1958
  75. Kamala Harris born 1964
  76. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  77. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  78. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  79. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  80. Xi Jinping born 1953
  81. Naruhito born 1960
  82. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  83. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  84. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  85. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  86. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  87. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  88. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  89. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  90. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  91. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  92. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  93. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  94. Bob Dylan born 1941
  95. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  96. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  97. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  98. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  99. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  100. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  101. Justin Bieber born 1994
  102. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  103. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  104. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  105. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  106. Taylor Swift born 1989
  107. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  108. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  109. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  110. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  111. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  112. Charles III born 1948
  113. Kim Jong-un born 1984
  114. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  115. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  116. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  117. Eminem born 1972
  118. Beyoncé born 1981
  119. Selena Gomez born 1992
  120. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  121. Leo XIV born 1955
  122. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  123. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  124. Narendra Modi born 1950
  125. Rafael Correa born 1963
  126. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  127. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  128. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  129. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  130. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  131. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  132. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  133. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  134. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  135. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  136. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  137. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  138. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  139. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  140. Tenzin Gyatso born 1935
  141. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  142. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  143. Mark Zuckerberg born 1984
  144. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  145. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  146. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  147. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  148. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  149. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  150. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961

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