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Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
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Abu Musab al-Zarqawi

Jordanian mujahid

Born 30 October 1966 · died 7 June 2006, aged 39

Who was alive at the same time as Abu Musab al-Zarqawi?

  1. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  2. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  3. Mao Zedong, 1893 – 1976
  4. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  5. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  6. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  7. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  8. Che Guevara, 1928 – 1967
  9. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968
  10. Pope Francis, 1936 – 2025
  11. Joe Biden, born 1942
  12. Donald Trump, born 1946
  13. George W. Bush, born 1946
  14. Bill Clinton, born 1946
  15. Vladimir Putin, born 1952
  16. Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011
  17. Bill Gates, born 1955
  18. Michael Jackson, 1958 – 2009
  19. Barack Obama, born 1961
  20. Jimmy Wales, born 1966
  21. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, 1966 – 2006
  22. Shakira, born 1977
  23. Lionel Messi, born 1987
  24. Corbin Bleu, born 1989

Drag across the timeline, or use the arrow keys, to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Dashed lines mark world events. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was born, Barack Obama was 5, Donald Trump was 20, Michael Jackson was 8, Vladimir Putin was 14 and Ronald Reagan was 55.

When Abu Musab al-Zarqawi died, Barack Obama was 44, Donald Trump was 59, Michael Jackson was 47, Vladimir Putin was 53 and Nelson Mandela was 87.

Born during Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s lifetime: Shakira, Lionel Messi, Corbin Bleu, Basshunter, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Cristiano Ronaldo, Elon Musk and Emmanuel Macron.

Not quite contemporaries: Albert Einstein died about 11 years before Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was born, Joseph Stalin died about 13 years before Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was born, Winston Churchill died about a year before Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was born and John F. Kennedy died about 3 years before Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was born.

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Where Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

3,855 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1986.

  1. Barack Obama born 1961
  2. Donald Trump born 1946
  3. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  4. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  5. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  6. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  7. George W. Bush born 1946
  8. Joe Biden born 1942
  9. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  10. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  11. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  12. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  13. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  14. Bill Gates born 1955
  15. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  16. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  17. Shakira born 1977
  18. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  19. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  20. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  21. Lionel Messi born 1987
  22. Corbin Bleu born 1989
  23. Bill Clinton born 1946
  24. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  25. Basshunter born 1984
  26. Angela Merkel born 1954
  27. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  28. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  29. François Hollande born 1954
  30. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  31. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  32. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  33. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  34. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  35. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  36. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  37. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  38. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  39. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  40. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  41. Elon Musk born 1971
  42. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  43. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  44. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  45. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  46. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  47. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  48. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  49. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  50. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  51. Lady Gaga born 1986
  52. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  53. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  54. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  55. Madonna born 1958
  56. Kamala Harris born 1964
  57. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  58. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  59. Xi Jinping born 1953
  60. Naruhito born 1960
  61. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  62. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  63. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  64. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  65. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  66. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  67. Bob Dylan born 1941
  68. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  69. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  70. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  71. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  72. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  73. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  74. Justin Bieber born 1994
  75. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  76. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  77. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  78. Taylor Swift born 1989
  79. Charles III born 1948
  80. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  81. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  82. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  83. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  84. Kim Jong Un born 1984
  85. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  86. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  87. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  88. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  89. Eminem born 1972
  90. Beyoncé born 1981
  91. Selena Gomez born 1992
  92. Narendra Modi born 1950
  93. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  94. Rafael Correa born 1963
  95. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  96. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  97. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  98. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  99. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  100. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  101. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  102. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  103. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  104. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  105. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  106. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  107. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  108. Mark Zuckerberg born 1984
  109. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  110. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  111. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  112. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  113. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  114. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  115. Shinzo Abe 1954 – 2022
  116. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  117. Tim Berners-Lee born 1955
  118. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  119. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  120. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  121. Jackie Chan born 1954
  122. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  123. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  124. Robin Williams 1951 – 2014
  125. Guillermo Lasso born 1955
  126. Celine Dion born 1968
  127. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  128. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  129. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  130. Roger Federer born 1981
  131. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  132. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  133. Lana Del Rey born 1985
  134. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  135. Alexander Lukashenko born 1954
  136. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  137. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  138. Woody Allen born 1935
  139. Neymar born 1992
  140. Tony Blair born 1953
  141. Rihanna born 1988
  142. Malala Yousafzai born 1997
  143. Scarlett Johansson born 1984
  144. Rafael Nadal born 1986
  145. Yasser Arafat 1929 – 2004
  146. Greta Thunberg born 2003
  147. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  148. Judy Garland 1922 – 1969
  149. Ban Ki-moon born 1944
  150. Arnold Schwarzenegger born 1947