Who Was Alive

Bob Marley

Jamaican reggae musician

Born 6 February 1945 · died 11 May 1981, aged 36

Who was alive at the same time as Bob Marley?

  1. Mahatma Gandhi
  2. Winston Churchill
  3. Joseph Stalin
  4. Albert Einstein
  5. Pablo Picasso
  6. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  7. Charlie Chaplin
  8. Adolf Hitler
  9. Salvador Dalí
  10. Ronald Reagan
  11. John F. Kennedy
  12. Nelson Mandela
  13. Elizabeth II
  14. Marilyn Monroe
  15. Martin Luther King Jr.
  16. Joe Biden
  17. Bob Marley
  18. Donald Trump
  19. George W. Bush
  20. Vladimir Putin
  21. Bill Gates
  22. Michael Jackson
  23. Barack Obama
  24. Jimmy Wales
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Bob Marley was born, Adolf Hitler was 55, Albert Einstein was 65, Ronald Reagan was 34, Nelson Mandela was 26 and Mahatma Gandhi was 75.

When Bob Marley died, Barack Obama was 19, Donald Trump was 34, Michael Jackson was 22, Vladimir Putin was 28 and Ronald Reagan was 70.

Born during Bob Marley’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 14 years before Bob Marley was born, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk died 7 years before Bob Marley was born, Sigmund Freud died 6 years before Bob Marley was born and Marie Curie died 11 years before Bob Marley was born.

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  8. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
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  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. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  21. Bill Gates born 1955
  22. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  23. Jimmy Wales born 1966
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