Who Was Alive

Abd al-Aziz Boutafliqa

President of Algeria from 1999 to 2019

Born 2 March 1937 · died 17 September 2021, aged 84

Who was alive at the same time as Abd al-Aziz Boutafliqa?

  1. Sigmund Freud
  2. Rabindranath Tagore
  3. Mahatma Gandhi
  4. Winston Churchill
  5. Joseph Stalin
  6. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  7. Albert Einstein
  8. Pablo Picasso
  9. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  10. Charlie Chaplin
  11. Adolf Hitler
  12. Salvador Dalí
  13. Ronald Reagan
  14. John F. Kennedy
  15. Nelson Mandela
  16. Elizabeth II
  17. Martin Luther King Jr.
  18. Abd al-Aziz Boutafliqa
  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 Abd al-Aziz Boutafliqa was born, Adolf Hitler was 47, Albert Einstein was 57, Ronald Reagan was 26, Nelson Mandela was 18 and Mahatma Gandhi was 67.

When Abd al-Aziz Boutafliqa died, Barack Obama was 60, Donald Trump was 75, Vladimir Putin was 68, George W. Bush was 75 and Joe Biden was 78.

Born during Abd al-Aziz Boutafliqa’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Bill Gates and Jimmy Wales.

Not quite contemporaries: Vladimir Lenin died 13 years before Abd al-Aziz Boutafliqa was born, Thomas Edison died 6 years before Abd al-Aziz Boutafliqa was born, Marie Curie died 3 years before Abd al-Aziz Boutafliqa was born and Franz Kafka died 13 years before Abd al-Aziz Boutafliqa was born.

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