Who Was Alive

John Paul I

Pope of the Catholic Church in 1978

Born 17 October 1912 · died 28 September 1978, aged 65

Who was alive at the same time as John Paul I?

  1. Thomas Edison
  2. Sigmund Freud
  3. Marie Curie
  4. Mahatma Gandhi
  5. Vladimir Lenin
  6. Winston Churchill
  7. Joseph Stalin
  8. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  9. Albert Einstein
  10. Pablo Picasso
  11. Charlie Chaplin
  12. Adolf Hitler
  13. Ronald Reagan
  14. John Paul I
  15. John F. Kennedy
  16. Nelson Mandela
  17. Elizabeth II
  18. Martin Luther King Jr.
  19. Joe Biden
  20. Donald Trump
  21. George W. Bush
  22. Vladimir Putin
  23. Michael Jackson
  24. Barack Obama
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When John Paul I was born, Adolf Hitler was 23, Albert Einstein was 33, Ronald Reagan was 1, Vladimir Lenin was 42 and Mahatma Gandhi was 43.

When John Paul I died, Barack Obama was 17, Donald Trump was 32, Michael Jackson was 20, Vladimir Putin was 25 and Ronald Reagan was 67.

Born during John Paul I’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush, Joe Biden and Elizabeth II.

Not quite contemporaries: Leo Tolstoy died 2 years before John Paul I was born, Friedrich Nietzsche died 12 years before John Paul I was born, Mark Twain died 2 years before John Paul I was born and Anton Chekhov died 8 years before John Paul I was born.

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  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. George W. Bush born 1946
  12. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  13. Joe Biden born 1942
  14. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  15. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  16. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  17. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  18. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  21. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  22. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  23. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  24. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  25. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  26. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  27. Bill Gates born 1955
  28. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  29. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  30. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  31. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  32. Shakira born 1977
  33. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  34. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  35. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  36. Bill Clinton born 1946
  37. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  38. Angela Merkel born 1954
  39. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  40. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  41. François Hollande born 1954
  42. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  43. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  44. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  45. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  46. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  47. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  48. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  49. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  50. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  51. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  52. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  53. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  54. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  55. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  56. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  57. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  58. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  59. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  60. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  61. Elon Musk born 1971
  62. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  63. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  64. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  65. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  66. Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  67. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  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. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  82. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  83. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  84. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  85. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  86. Xi Jinping born 1953
  87. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  88. Naruhito born 1960
  89. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  90. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  91. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  92. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  93. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  94. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  95. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  96. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  97. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  98. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  99. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  100. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  101. Bob Dylan born 1941
  102. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  103. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  104. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  105. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  106. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  107. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  108. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  109. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  110. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  111. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  112. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  113. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  114. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  115. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  116. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  117. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  118. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  119. Charles III born 1948
  120. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  121. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  122. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  123. Eminem born 1972
  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. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  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. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  148. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  149. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  150. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971

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