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Benjamin Britten
Szalay Zoltán, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Benjamin Britten

British composer and conductor

Born 22 November 1913 · died 4 December 1976, aged 63
Also known as Edward Benjamin Britten

Who was alive at the same time as Benjamin Britten?

  1. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  2. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  3. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  4. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  5. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  6. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  7. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  8. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  9. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  10. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  11. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  12. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  13. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  14. Benjamin Britten, 1913 – 1976
  15. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  16. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  17. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  18. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968
  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 Benjamin Britten was born, Adolf Hitler was 24, Albert Einstein was 34, Ronald Reagan was 2, Vladimir Lenin was 43 and Mahatma Gandhi was 44.

When Benjamin Britten died, Barack Obama was 15, Donald Trump was 30, Michael Jackson was 18, Vladimir Putin was 24 and Ronald Reagan was 65.

Born during Benjamin Britten’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush, Joe Biden and Elizabeth II.

Not quite contemporaries: Leo Tolstoy died about 3 years before Benjamin Britten was born, Friedrich Nietzsche died about 13 years before Benjamin Britten was born, Mark Twain died about 3 years before Benjamin Britten was born and Anton Chekhov died about 9 years before Benjamin Britten was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

3,815 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Benjamin Britten. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1945.

  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. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  9. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  10. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  11. George W. Bush born 1946
  12. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  13. Joe Biden born 1942
  14. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  15. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  16. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  17. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  18. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  19. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  21. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  22. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  23. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  24. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  25. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  26. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  27. Bill Gates born 1955
  28. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  29. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  30. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  31. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  32. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  33. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  34. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  35. Bill Clinton born 1946
  36. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  37. Angela Merkel born 1954
  38. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  39. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  40. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  41. François Hollande born 1954
  42. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  43. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  44. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  45. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  46. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  47. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  48. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  49. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  50. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  51. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  52. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  53. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  54. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  55. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  56. Elon Musk born 1971
  57. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  58. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  59. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  60. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  61. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  62. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  63. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  64. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  65. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  66. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  67. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  68. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  69. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  70. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  71. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  72. Madonna born 1958
  73. Kamala Harris born 1964
  74. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  75. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  76. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  77. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  78. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  79. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  80. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  81. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  82. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  83. Xi Jinping born 1953
  84. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  85. Naruhito born 1960
  86. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  87. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  88. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  89. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  90. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  91. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  92. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  93. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  94. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  95. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  96. Bob Dylan born 1941
  97. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  98. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  99. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  100. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  101. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  102. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  103. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  104. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  105. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  106. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  107. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  108. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  109. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  110. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  111. Charles III born 1948
  112. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  113. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  114. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  115. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  116. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  117. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  118. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  119. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  120. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  121. Eminem born 1972
  122. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  123. Narendra Modi born 1950
  124. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  125. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  126. Rafael Correa born 1963
  127. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  128. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  129. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  130. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  131. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  132. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  133. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  134. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  135. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  136. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  137. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  138. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  139. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  140. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  141. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  142. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  143. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  144. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  145. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  146. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  147. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  148. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  149. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  150. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943