Who Was Alive
Audre Lorde
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Audre Lorde

American writer and feminist

Born 18 February 1934 · died 17 November 1992, aged 58
Also known as Audrey Geraldine Lorde, Gamba Adisa, Rey Domini

Who was alive at the same time as Audre Lorde?

  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. Audre Lorde, 1934 – 1992
  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

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 Audre Lorde was born, Adolf Hitler was 44, Albert Einstein was 54, Ronald Reagan was 23, Nelson Mandela was 15 and Mahatma Gandhi was 64.

When Audre Lorde died, Barack Obama was 31, Donald Trump was 46, Michael Jackson was 34, Vladimir Putin was 40 and Ronald Reagan was 81.

Born during Audre Lorde’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Bill Gates and Pope Francis.

Not quite contemporaries: Vladimir Lenin died about 10 years before Audre Lorde was born, Thomas Edison died about 3 years before Audre Lorde was born, Franz Kafka died about 10 years before Audre Lorde was born and Sarah Bernhardt died about 11 years before Audre Lorde was born.

What happened in Audre Lorde’s lifetime

Where Audre Lorde’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

4,254 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Audre Lorde. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1963.

  1. Barack Obama born 1961
  2. Donald Trump born 1946
  3. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  4. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  5. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  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. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  21. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  22. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  23. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  24. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  25. Bill Gates born 1955
  26. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  27. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  28. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  29. Shakira born 1977
  30. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  31. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  32. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  33. Lionel Messi born 1987
  34. Corbin Bleu born 1989
  35. Bill Clinton born 1946
  36. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  37. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  38. Basshunter born 1984
  39. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  40. Angela Merkel born 1954
  41. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  42. François Hollande born 1954
  43. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  44. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  45. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  46. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  47. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  48. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  49. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  50. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  51. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  52. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  53. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  54. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  55. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  56. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  57. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  58. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  59. Elon Musk born 1971
  60. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  61. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  62. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  63. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  64. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  65. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  66. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  67. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  68. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  69. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  70. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  71. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  72. Lady Gaga born 1986
  73. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  74. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  75. Madonna born 1958
  76. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  77. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  78. Kamala Harris born 1964
  79. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  80. Xi Jinping born 1953
  81. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  82. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  83. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  84. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  85. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  86. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  87. Naruhito born 1960
  88. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  89. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  90. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  91. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  92. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  93. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  94. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  95. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  96. Bob Dylan born 1941
  97. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  98. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  99. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  100. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  101. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  102. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  103. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  104. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  105. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  106. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  107. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  108. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  109. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  110. Taylor Swift born 1989
  111. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  112. Charles III born 1948
  113. Kim Jong Un born 1984
  114. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  115. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  116. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  117. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  118. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  119. Beyoncé born 1981
  120. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  121. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  122. Eminem born 1972
  123. Selena Gomez born 1992
  124. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  125. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  126. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  127. Narendra Modi born 1950
  128. Rafael Correa born 1963
  129. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  130. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  131. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  132. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  133. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  134. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  135. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  136. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  137. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  138. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  139. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  140. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  141. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  142. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  143. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  144. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  145. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  146. Mark Zuckerberg born 1984
  147. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  148. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  149. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  150. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973