Who Was Alive

Were Yuri Gagarin and Barack Obama alive at the same time?

Yes. Yuri Gagarin and Barack Obama were alive at the same time for 6 years, from 1961 to 1968.

Yuri Gagarin was 27 when Barack Obama was born.

Barack Obama was 6 when Yuri Gagarin died, aged 34.

Yuri Gagarin

Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, first human in space

Born 9 March 1934 · died 27 March 1968, aged 34

Barack Obama

44th President of the United States

Born 4 August 1961 · living, 65 as of September 2026

  1. Albert Einstein
  2. Adolf Hitler
  3. Ronald Reagan
  4. Nelson Mandela
  5. Yuri Gagarin
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  7. Vladimir Putin
  8. Michael Jackson
  9. Barack Obama
Yuri Gagarin and Barack Obama in bold, with some of their best-known contemporaries. Drag across to see the age each reached in any year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.