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Burhanuddin Rabbani
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Burhanuddin Rabbani

Politician who served as President of Afghanistan

Born 20 September 1940 · died 20 September 2011, aged 71

Who was alive at the same time as Burhanuddin Rabbani?

  1. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  2. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  3. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  4. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  5. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  6. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  7. Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1882 – 1945
  8. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  9. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  10. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  11. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  12. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  13. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  14. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  15. Marilyn Monroe, 1926 – 1962
  16. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968
  17. Burhanuddin Rabbani, 1940 – 2011
  18. Joe Biden, born 1942
  19. Donald Trump, born 1946
  20. George W. Bush, born 1946
  21. Vladimir Putin, born 1952
  22. Bill Gates, born 1955
  23. Michael Jackson, 1958 – 2009
  24. Barack Obama, born 1961

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When Burhanuddin Rabbani was born, Adolf Hitler was 51, Albert Einstein was 61, Ronald Reagan was 29, Nelson Mandela was 22 and Mahatma Gandhi was 70.

When Burhanuddin Rabbani died, Barack Obama was 50, Donald Trump was 65, Vladimir Putin was 58, Nelson Mandela was 93 and George W. Bush was 65.

Born during Burhanuddin Rabbani’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Bill Gates and Jimmy Wales.

Not quite contemporaries: Thomas Edison died about 9 years before Burhanuddin Rabbani was born, Sigmund Freud died about a year before Burhanuddin Rabbani was born, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk died about 2 years before Burhanuddin Rabbani was born and Marie Curie died about 6 years before Burhanuddin Rabbani was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

4,306 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Burhanuddin Rabbani. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1976.

  1. Barack Obama born 1961
  2. Donald Trump born 1946
  3. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  4. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  5. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  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. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  20. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  21. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  22. Bill Gates born 1955
  23. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  24. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  25. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  26. Shakira born 1977
  27. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  28. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  29. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  30. Lionel Messi born 1987
  31. Corbin Bleu born 1989
  32. Bill Clinton born 1946
  33. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  34. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  35. Basshunter born 1984
  36. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  37. Angela Merkel born 1954
  38. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  39. François Hollande born 1954
  40. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  41. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  42. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  43. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  44. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  45. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  46. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  47. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  48. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  49. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  50. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  51. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  52. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  53. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  54. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  55. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  56. Elon Musk born 1971
  57. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  58. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  59. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  60. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  61. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  62. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  63. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  64. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  65. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  66. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  67. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  68. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  69. Lady Gaga born 1986
  70. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  71. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  72. Madonna born 1958
  73. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  74. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  75. Kamala Harris born 1964
  76. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  77. Xi Jinping born 1953
  78. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  79. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  80. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  81. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  82. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  83. Naruhito born 1960
  84. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  85. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  86. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  87. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  88. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  89. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  90. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  91. Bob Dylan born 1941
  92. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  93. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  94. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  95. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  96. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  97. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  98. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  99. Justin Bieber born 1994
  100. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  101. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  102. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  103. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  104. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  105. Taylor Swift born 1989
  106. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  107. Charles III born 1948
  108. Kim Jong Un born 1984
  109. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  110. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  111. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  112. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  113. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  114. Beyoncé born 1981
  115. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  116. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  117. Eminem born 1972
  118. Selena Gomez born 1992
  119. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  120. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  121. Narendra Modi born 1950
  122. Rafael Correa born 1963
  123. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  124. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  125. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  126. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  127. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  128. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  129. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  130. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  131. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  132. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  133. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  134. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  135. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  136. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  137. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  138. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  139. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  140. Mark Zuckerberg born 1984
  141. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  142. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  143. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  144. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  145. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  146. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  147. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  148. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  149. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  150. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023