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Abebe Bikila
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Abebe Bikila

Ethiopian Olympic champion

Born 7 August 1932 · died 25 October 1973, aged 41

Who was alive at the same time as Abebe Bikila?

  1. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  2. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  3. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  4. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  5. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  6. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  7. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  8. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  9. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  10. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  11. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  12. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  13. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  14. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  15. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  16. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  17. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968
  18. Abebe Bikila, 1932 – 1973
  19. Joe Biden, born 1942
  20. Donald Trump, born 1946
  21. George W. Bush, born 1946
  22. Vladimir Putin, born 1952
  23. Michael Jackson, 1958 – 2009
  24. Barack Obama, born 1961

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When Abebe Bikila was born, Adolf Hitler was 43, Albert Einstein was 53, Ronald Reagan was 21, Nelson Mandela was 14 and Mahatma Gandhi was 62.

When Abebe Bikila died, Barack Obama was 12, Donald Trump was 27, Michael Jackson was 15, Vladimir Putin was 21 and Ronald Reagan was 62.

Born during Abebe Bikila’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 about 8 years before Abebe Bikila was born, Thomas Edison died about a year before Abebe Bikila was born, Franz Kafka died about 8 years before Abebe Bikila was born and Shakira was born about 4 years after Abebe Bikila died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

3,488 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Abebe Bikila. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1953.

  1. Barack Obama born 1961
  2. Donald Trump born 1946
  3. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  4. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  5. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  6. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  7. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  8. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  9. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  10. George W. Bush born 1946
  11. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  12. Joe Biden born 1942
  13. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  14. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  15. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  16. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  17. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  18. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  19. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  20. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  21. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  22. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  23. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  24. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  25. Bill Gates born 1955
  26. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  27. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  28. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  29. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  30. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  31. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  32. Bill Clinton born 1946
  33. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  34. Angela Merkel born 1954
  35. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  36. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  37. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  38. François Hollande born 1954
  39. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  40. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  41. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  42. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  43. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  44. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  45. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  46. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  47. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  48. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  49. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  50. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  51. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  52. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  53. Elon Musk born 1971
  54. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  55. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  56. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  57. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  58. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  59. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  60. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  61. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  62. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  63. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  64. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  65. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  66. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  67. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  68. Madonna born 1958
  69. Kamala Harris born 1964
  70. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  71. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  72. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  73. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  74. Xi Jinping born 1953
  75. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  76. Naruhito born 1960
  77. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  78. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  79. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  80. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  81. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  82. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  83. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  84. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  85. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  86. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  87. Bob Dylan born 1941
  88. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  89. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  90. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  91. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  92. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  93. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  94. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  95. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  96. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  97. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  98. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  99. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  100. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  101. Charles III born 1948
  102. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  103. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  104. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  105. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  106. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  107. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  108. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  109. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  110. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  111. Eminem born 1972
  112. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  113. Narendra Modi born 1950
  114. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  115. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  116. Rafael Correa born 1963
  117. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  118. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  119. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  120. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  121. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  122. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  123. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  124. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  125. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  126. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  127. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  128. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  129. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  130. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  131. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  132. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  133. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  134. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  135. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  136. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  137. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  138. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  139. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  140. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  141. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  142. Shinzo Abe 1954 – 2022
  143. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  144. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  145. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  146. Tim Berners-Lee born 1955
  147. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  148. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  149. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  150. Jackie Chan born 1954