Who Was Alive

Ahmad Shah Massoud

Military leader

Born 2 September 1953 · died 9 September 2001, aged 48
Also known as Ahmed Shah Masood, Ahmed Shah Masoud, Afghanistan national hero

Who was alive at the same time as Ahmad Shah Massoud?

  1. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  2. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  3. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  4. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  5. Mao Zedong, 1893 – 1976
  6. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  7. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  8. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  9. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  10. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  11. Marilyn Monroe, 1926 – 1962
  12. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968
  13. Pope Francis, 1936 – 2025
  14. Joe Biden, born 1942
  15. Donald Trump, born 1946
  16. George W. Bush, born 1946
  17. Vladimir Putin, born 1952
  18. Ahmad Shah Massoud, 1953 – 2001
  19. Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011
  20. Bill Gates, born 1955
  21. Michael Jackson, 1958 – 2009
  22. Barack Obama, born 1961
  23. Jimmy Wales, born 1966
  24. Shakira, born 1977

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When Ahmad Shah Massoud was born, Donald Trump was 7, Albert Einstein was 74, Vladimir Putin was under a year old, Ronald Reagan was 42 and Nelson Mandela was 35.

When Ahmad Shah Massoud died, Barack Obama was 40, Donald Trump was 55, Michael Jackson was 43, Vladimir Putin was 48 and Ronald Reagan was 90.

Born during Ahmad Shah Massoud’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Michael Jackson, Bill Gates, Jimmy Wales, Shakira, Steve Jobs, Lionel Messi and Corbin Bleu.

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler died about 8 years before Ahmad Shah Massoud was born, Mahatma Gandhi died about 5 years before Ahmad Shah Massoud was born, Joseph Stalin died months before Ahmad Shah Massoud was born and Sigmund Freud died about 14 years before Ahmad Shah Massoud was born.

What happened in Ahmad Shah Massoud’s lifetime

Where Ahmad Shah Massoud’s contemporaries were born

Ahmad Shah Massoud is labelled; the others are the best-known people we track who lived at the same time. Each dot is a birthplace from Wikidata (78 of 81 placed); tap one to open that person.
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The 150 best-known contemporaries

4,027 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Ahmad Shah Massoud. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1977.

  1. Barack Obama born 1961
  2. Donald Trump born 1946
  3. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  4. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  5. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  6. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  7. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  8. George W. Bush born 1946
  9. Joe Biden born 1942
  10. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  11. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  12. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  13. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  14. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  15. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  16. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  17. Bill Gates born 1955
  18. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  19. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  20. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  21. Shakira born 1977
  22. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  23. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  24. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  25. Lionel Messi born 1987
  26. Corbin Bleu born 1989
  27. Bill Clinton born 1946
  28. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  29. Basshunter born 1984
  30. Angela Merkel born 1954
  31. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  32. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  33. François Hollande born 1954
  34. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  35. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  36. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  37. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  38. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  39. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  40. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  41. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  42. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  43. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  44. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  45. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  46. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  47. Elon Musk born 1971
  48. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  49. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  50. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  51. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  52. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  53. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  54. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  55. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  56. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  57. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  58. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  59. Lady Gaga born 1986
  60. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  61. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  62. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  63. Madonna born 1958
  64. Kamala Harris born 1964
  65. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  66. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  67. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  68. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  69. Xi Jinping born 1953
  70. Naruhito born 1960
  71. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  72. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  73. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  74. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  75. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  76. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  77. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  78. Bob Dylan born 1941
  79. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  80. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  81. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  82. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  83. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  84. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  85. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  86. Justin Bieber born 1994
  87. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  88. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  89. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  90. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  91. Taylor Swift born 1989
  92. Charles III born 1948
  93. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  94. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  95. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  96. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  97. Kim Jong Un born 1984
  98. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  99. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  100. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  101. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  102. Eminem born 1972
  103. Beyoncé born 1981
  104. Selena Gomez born 1992
  105. Narendra Modi born 1950
  106. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  107. Rafael Correa born 1963
  108. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  109. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  110. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  111. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  112. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  113. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  114. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  115. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  116. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  117. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  118. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  119. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  120. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  121. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  122. Mark Zuckerberg born 1984
  123. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  124. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  125. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  126. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  127. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  128. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  129. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  130. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  131. Shinzo Abe 1954 – 2022
  132. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  133. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  134. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  135. Tim Berners-Lee born 1955
  136. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  137. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  138. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  139. Jackie Chan born 1954
  140. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  141. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  142. Robin Williams 1951 – 2014
  143. Guillermo Lasso born 1955
  144. Celine Dion born 1968
  145. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  146. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  147. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  148. Roger Federer born 1981
  149. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  150. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972