Who Was Alive

Bobby Fischer

American chess player

Born 9 March 1943 · died 17 January 2008, aged 64

Who was alive at the same time as Bobby Fischer?

  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. Bobby Fischer
  18. Donald Trump
  19. George W. Bush
  20. Vladimir Putin
  21. Bill Gates
  22. Michael Jackson
  23. Barack Obama
  24. Jimmy Wales
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When Bobby Fischer was born, Adolf Hitler was 53, Albert Einstein was 63, Ronald Reagan was 32, Nelson Mandela was 24 and Mahatma Gandhi was 73.

When Bobby Fischer died, Barack Obama was 46, Donald Trump was 61, Michael Jackson was 49, Vladimir Putin was 55 and Nelson Mandela was 89.

Born during Bobby Fischer’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 12 years before Bobby Fischer was born, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk died 5 years before Bobby Fischer was born, Sigmund Freud died 4 years before Bobby Fischer was born and Marie Curie died 9 years before Bobby Fischer was born.

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