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Aung San
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Aung San

Burmese soldier

Born 13 February 1915 · died 19 July 1947, aged 32
Also known as General Aung San, Bogyoke Aung San

Who was alive at the same time as Aung San?

  1. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  2. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  3. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  4. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  5. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  6. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  7. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  8. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  9. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  10. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  11. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  12. Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1882 – 1945
  13. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  14. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  15. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  16. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  17. Aung San, 1915 – 1947
  18. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  19. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  20. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  21. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968
  22. Joe Biden, born 1942
  23. Donald Trump, born 1946
  24. George W. Bush, born 1946

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 Aung San was born, Adolf Hitler was 25, Albert Einstein was 35, Ronald Reagan was 4, Vladimir Lenin was 44 and Mahatma Gandhi was 45.

When Aung San died, Donald Trump was 1, Albert Einstein was 68, Ronald Reagan was 36, Nelson Mandela was 29 and Mahatma Gandhi was 77.

Born during Aung San’s lifetime: Donald Trump, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Marilyn Monroe.

Not quite contemporaries: Barack Obama was born about 14 years after Aung San died, Michael Jackson was born about 11 years after Aung San died, Vladimir Putin was born about 5 years after Aung San died and Leo Tolstoy died about 5 years before Aung San was born.

What happened in Aung San’s lifetime

Where Aung San’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,482 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Aung San. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1931.

  1. Donald Trump born 1946
  2. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  3. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  4. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  5. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  6. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  7. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  8. George W. Bush born 1946
  9. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  10. Joe Biden born 1942
  11. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  12. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  13. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  14. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  15. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  16. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  17. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  18. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  19. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  20. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  21. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  22. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  23. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  24. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  25. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  26. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  27. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  28. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  29. Bill Clinton born 1946
  30. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  31. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  32. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  33. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  34. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  35. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  36. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  37. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  38. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  39. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  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. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  47. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  48. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  49. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  50. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  51. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  52. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  53. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  54. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  55. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  56. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  57. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  58. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  59. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  60. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  61. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  62. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  63. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  64. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  65. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  66. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  67. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  68. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  69. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  70. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  71. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  72. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  73. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  74. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  75. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  76. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  77. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  78. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  79. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  80. Bob Dylan born 1941
  81. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  82. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  83. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  84. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  85. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  86. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  87. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  88. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  89. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  90. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  91. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  92. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  93. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  94. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  95. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  96. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  97. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  98. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  99. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  100. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  101. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  102. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  103. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  104. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  105. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  106. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  107. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  108. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  109. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  110. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  111. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  112. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  113. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  114. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  115. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  116. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  117. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  118. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  119. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  120. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  121. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  122. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  123. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  124. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  125. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  126. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  127. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  128. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  129. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  130. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  131. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  132. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  133. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  134. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  135. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  136. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  137. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  138. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  139. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  140. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  141. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  142. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  143. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  144. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  145. Woody Allen born 1935
  146. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  147. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  148. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  149. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  150. Yasser Arafat 1929 – 2004