Who was alive at the same time?
Pick anyone from history and see who shared the world with them, and how old everyone was. 6,795 lives, every date sourced.
Quick question
Were Pablo Picasso and Shakira alive at the same time?
Pablo PicassoSpanish painter and sculptor
ShakiraColombian singer
Pick a year
The best-known people alive that year, with the age each reached during it (a range such as 17–21 means the birth year itself is uncertain). Everyone alive in 1789.
- Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
- Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
- Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
- George Washington, 1732 – 1799
- Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
- Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
- Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
- Jane Austen, 1775 – 1817
- Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1777 – 1855
- Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
Born on this day, 15 October
Lives that overlapped more than you’d think
- Leonardo da Vinci was 15 or 16 when Johannes Gutenberg died.
- Elizabeth I was 30 when Michelangelo died.
- Molière was 19 when Galileo Galilei died.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 14 when Isaac Newton died.
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 22 when Voltaire died.
- Karl Marx was 13 when Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died.
- Vladimir Lenin was 15 when Victor Hugo died.
- Vladimir Putin was 12 when Winston Churchill died.
- Michael Jackson was 14 when Pablo Picasso died.
Born on the same day
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- 1st century BC 51
- 1st century 65
- 2nd century 48
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- 4th century 79
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- 8th century 73
- 9th century 30
- 10th century 36
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- 12th century 43
- 13th century 58
- 14th century 56
- 15th century 121
- 16th century 150
- 17th century 137
- 18th century 343
- 19th century 1237
- 20th century 3661
- 21st century 27