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Björn Ulvaeus
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Björn Ulvaeus

Swedish pop musician who served as President of CISAC

Born 25 April 1945 · living, 81 as of October 2026
Also known as Björn Kristian Ulvaeus, Björn

Who was alive at the same time as Björn Ulvaeus?

  1. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  2. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  3. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  4. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  5. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  6. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  7. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  8. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  9. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  10. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  11. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  12. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  13. Marilyn Monroe, 1926 – 1962
  14. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968
  15. Pope Francis, 1936 – 2025
  16. Joe Biden, born 1942
  17. Björn Ulvaeus, born 1945
  18. Donald Trump, born 1946
  19. George W. Bush, born 1946
  20. Vladimir Putin, born 1952
  21. Bill Gates, born 1955
  22. Michael Jackson, 1958 – 2009
  23. Barack Obama, born 1961
  24. Jimmy Wales, born 1966

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When Björn Ulvaeus was born, Adolf Hitler was 56, Albert Einstein was 66, Ronald Reagan was 34, Nelson Mandela was 26 and Mahatma Gandhi was 75.

Born during Björn Ulvaeus’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, George W. Bush, Bill Gates, Jimmy Wales and Shakira.

Not quite contemporaries: Thomas Edison died about 14 years before Björn Ulvaeus was born, Sigmund Freud died about 6 years before Björn Ulvaeus was born, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk died about 7 years before Björn Ulvaeus was born and Marie Curie died about 11 years before Björn Ulvaeus was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

4,178 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Björn Ulvaeus. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1986.

  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. 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. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  18. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  19. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  20. Bill Gates born 1955
  21. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  22. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  23. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  24. Shakira born 1977
  25. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  26. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  27. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  28. Lionel Messi born 1987
  29. Corbin Bleu born 1989
  30. Bill Clinton born 1946
  31. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  32. Basshunter born 1984
  33. Angela Merkel born 1954
  34. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  35. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  36. François Hollande born 1954
  37. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  38. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  39. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  40. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  41. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  42. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  43. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  44. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  45. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  46. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  47. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  48. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  49. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  50. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  51. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  52. Elon Musk born 1971
  53. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  54. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  55. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  56. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  57. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  58. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  59. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  60. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  61. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  62. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  63. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  64. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  65. Lady Gaga born 1986
  66. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  67. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  68. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  69. Madonna born 1958
  70. Kamala Harris born 1964
  71. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  72. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  73. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  74. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  75. Xi Jinping born 1953
  76. Naruhito born 1960
  77. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  78. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  79. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  80. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  81. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  82. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  83. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  84. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  85. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  86. Bob Dylan born 1941
  87. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  88. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  89. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  90. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  91. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  92. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  93. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  94. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  95. Justin Bieber born 1994
  96. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  97. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  98. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  99. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  100. Taylor Swift born 1989
  101. Charles III born 1948
  102. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  103. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  104. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  105. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  106. Kim Jong Un born 1984
  107. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  108. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  109. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  110. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  111. Eminem born 1972
  112. Beyoncé born 1981
  113. Selena Gomez born 1992
  114. Narendra Modi born 1950
  115. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  116. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  117. Rafael Correa born 1963
  118. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  119. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  120. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  121. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  122. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  123. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  124. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  125. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  126. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  127. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  128. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  129. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  130. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  131. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  132. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  133. Mark Zuckerberg born 1984
  134. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  135. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  136. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  137. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  138. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  139. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  140. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  141. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  142. Shinzo Abe 1954 – 2022
  143. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  144. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  145. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  146. Tim Berners-Lee born 1955
  147. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  148. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  149. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  150. Jackie Chan born 1954