Who Was Alive

Walt Disney

American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company

Born 5 December 1901 · died 15 December 1966, aged 65

Who was alive at the same time as Walt Disney?

  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. Walt Disney
  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 Walt Disney was born, Adolf Hitler was 12, Albert Einstein was 22, Vladimir Lenin was 31, Mahatma Gandhi was 32 and Leo Tolstoy was 73.

When Walt Disney died, Barack Obama was 5, Donald Trump was 20, Michael Jackson was 8, Vladimir Putin was 14 and Ronald Reagan was 55.

Born during Walt Disney’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 Walt Disney was born, Friedrich Nietzsche died about a year before Walt Disney was born, Shakira was born 11 years after Walt Disney died and Oscar Wilde died about a year before Walt Disney was born.

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All 1,118 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. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  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. 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. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  67. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  68. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  69. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  70. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  71. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  72. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  73. Madonna born 1958
  74. Kamala Harris born 1964
  75. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  76. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  77. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  78. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  79. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  80. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  81. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  82. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  83. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  84. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  85. Xi Jinping born 1953
  86. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  87. Naruhito born 1960
  88. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  89. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  90. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  91. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  92. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  93. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  94. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  95. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  96. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  97. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  98. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  99. Bob Dylan born 1941
  100. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  101. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  102. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  103. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  104. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  105. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  106. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  107. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  108. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  109. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  110. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  111. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  112. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  113. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  114. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  115. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  116. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  117. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  118. Charles III born 1948
  119. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  120. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  121. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  122. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  123. Leo XIV born 1955
  124. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  125. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  126. Narendra Modi born 1950
  127. Rafael Correa born 1963
  128. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  129. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  130. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  131. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  132. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  133. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  134. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  135. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  136. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  137. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  138. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  139. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  140. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  141. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  142. Tenzin Gyatso born 1935
  143. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  144. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  145. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  146. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  147. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  148. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  149. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  150. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973

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