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Billie Joe Armstrong
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Billie Joe Armstrong

American rock musician

Born 17 February 1972 · living, 54 as of October 2026
Also known as Billie Joe, Reverend Strychnine Twitch, William Joseph Armstrong

Who was alive at the same time as Billie Joe Armstrong?

  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. Pope Francis, 1936 – 2025
  9. Joe Biden, born 1942
  10. Donald Trump, born 1946
  11. George W. Bush, born 1946
  12. Bill Clinton, born 1946
  13. Vladimir Putin, born 1952
  14. Angela Merkel, born 1954
  15. Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011
  16. Bill Gates, born 1955
  17. Michael Jackson, 1958 – 2009
  18. Barack Obama, born 1961
  19. Jimmy Wales, born 1966
  20. Billie Joe Armstrong, born 1972
  21. Shakira, born 1977
  22. Basshunter, born 1984
  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 Billie Joe Armstrong was born, Barack Obama was 10, Donald Trump was 25, Michael Jackson was 13, Vladimir Putin was 19 and Ronald Reagan was 61.

Born during Billie Joe Armstrong’s lifetime: Shakira, Lionel Messi, Corbin Bleu, Basshunter, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Cristiano Ronaldo, Emmanuel Macron and Lady Gaga.

Not quite contemporaries: Winston Churchill died about 7 years before Billie Joe Armstrong was born, John F. Kennedy died about 9 years before Billie Joe Armstrong was born, Martin Luther King Jr. died about 4 years before Billie Joe Armstrong was born and Marilyn Monroe died about 10 years before Billie Joe Armstrong was born.

What happened in Billie Joe Armstrong’s lifetime

Where Billie Joe Armstrong’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

3,747 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Billie Joe Armstrong. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1999.

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