Who Was Alive

Xi Jinping

General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party since 2012

Born 15 June 1953 · living, 73 as of September 2026

Who was alive at the same time as Xi Jinping?

  1. Winston Churchill
  2. Albert Einstein
  3. Pablo Picasso
  4. Charlie Chaplin
  5. Mao Zedong
  6. Salvador Dalí
  7. Ronald Reagan
  8. John F. Kennedy
  9. Nelson Mandela
  10. Elizabeth II
  11. Marilyn Monroe
  12. Martin Luther King Jr.
  13. Pope Francis
  14. Joe Biden
  15. Donald Trump
  16. George W. Bush
  17. Vladimir Putin
  18. Xi Jinping
  19. Steve Jobs
  20. Bill Gates
  21. Michael Jackson
  22. Barack Obama
  23. Jimmy Wales
  24. Shakira
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When Xi Jinping was born, Donald Trump was 7, Albert Einstein was 74, Vladimir Putin was under a year old, Ronald Reagan was 42 and Nelson Mandela was 34.

Born during Xi Jinping’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Michael Jackson, Bill Gates, Jimmy Wales, Shakira, Steve Jobs, Lionel Messi and Corbin Bleu.

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler died 8 years before Xi Jinping was born, Mahatma Gandhi died 5 years before Xi Jinping was born, Joseph Stalin died months before Xi Jinping was born and Mustafa Kemal Atatürk died 15 years before Xi Jinping was born.

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  2. Donald Trump born 1946
  3. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  4. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  5. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  6. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  7. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  8. George W. Bush born 1946
  9. Joe Biden born 1942
  10. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  11. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  12. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  13. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  14. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  15. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  16. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  17. Bill Gates born 1955
  18. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  19. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  20. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  21. Shakira born 1977
  22. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  23. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  24. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  25. Lionel Messi born 1987
  26. Corbin Bleu born 1989
  27. Bill Clinton born 1946
  28. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  29. Basshunter born 1984
  30. Angela Merkel born 1954
  31. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  32. François Hollande born 1954
  33. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  34. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  35. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  36. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  37. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  38. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  39. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  40. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  41. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  42. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  43. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  44. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  45. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  46. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  47. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  48. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  49. Elon Musk born 1971
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  51. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  52. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  53. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  54. Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  55. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  56. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  57. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  58. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  59. Lady Gaga born 1986
  60. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  61. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  62. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  63. Madonna born 1958
  64. Kamala Harris born 1964
  65. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  66. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  67. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  68. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  69. Naruhito born 1960
  70. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  71. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  72. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  73. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  74. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  75. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  76. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  77. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  78. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  79. Bob Dylan born 1941
  80. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  81. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  82. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  83. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  84. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  85. Justin Bieber born 1994
  86. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  87. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  88. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  89. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  90. Taylor Swift born 1989
  91. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  92. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  93. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  94. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  95. Charles III born 1948
  96. Kim Jong-un born 1984
  97. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  98. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  99. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  100. Eminem born 1972
  101. Beyoncé born 1981
  102. Selena Gomez born 1992
  103. Leo XIV born 1955
  104. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  105. Narendra Modi born 1950
  106. Rafael Correa born 1963
  107. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  108. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  109. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  110. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  111. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  112. Michael Schumacher born 1969
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  115. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
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  119. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  120. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  121. Mark Zuckerberg born 1984
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  123. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  124. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  125. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  126. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  127. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  128. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  129. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  130. Shinzō Abe 1954 – 2022
  131. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  132. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  133. Isaac Asimov 1919–1920 – 1992
  134. Tim Berners-Lee born 1955
  135. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  136. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  137. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  138. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  139. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  140. Robin Williams 1951 – 2014
  141. Jackie Chan born 1954
  142. Kim Il-sung 1912 – 1994
  143. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  144. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  145. Guillermo Lasso born 1955
  146. Céline Dion born 1968
  147. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  148. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  149. Roger Federer born 1981
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