Who Was Alive
Charlie Parker
William P. Gottlieb, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Charlie Parker

American saxophonist

Born 29 August 1920 · died 12 March 1955, aged 34
Also known as Yardbird, Charles C. Parker, Charles Parker Jr.

Who was alive at the same time as Charlie Parker?

  1. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  2. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  3. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  4. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  5. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  6. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  7. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  8. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  9. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  10. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  11. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  12. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  13. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  14. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  15. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  16. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  17. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  18. Charlie Parker, 1920 – 1955
  19. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  20. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968
  21. Joe Biden, born 1942
  22. Donald Trump, born 1946
  23. George W. Bush, born 1946
  24. Vladimir Putin, born 1952

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 Charlie Parker was born, Adolf Hitler was 31, Albert Einstein was 41, Ronald Reagan was 9, Vladimir Lenin was 50 and Nelson Mandela was 2.

When Charlie Parker died, Donald Trump was 8, Albert Einstein was 75, Vladimir Putin was 2, Ronald Reagan was 44 and Nelson Mandela was 36.

Born during Charlie Parker’s lifetime: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Elizabeth II, Martin Luther King Jr., Marilyn Monroe and Pope Francis.

Not quite contemporaries: Barack Obama was born about 6 years after Charlie Parker died, Michael Jackson was born about 3 years after Charlie Parker died, Leo Tolstoy died about 10 years before Charlie Parker was born and Mark Twain died about 10 years before Charlie Parker was born.

What happened in Charlie Parker’s lifetime

Where Charlie Parker’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,776 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Charlie Parker. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1938.

  1. Donald Trump born 1946
  2. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  3. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  4. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  5. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  6. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  7. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  8. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  9. George W. Bush born 1946
  10. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  11. Joe Biden born 1942
  12. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  13. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  14. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  15. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  16. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  17. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  18. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  19. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  20. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  21. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  22. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  23. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  24. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  25. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  26. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  27. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  28. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  29. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  30. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  31. Bill Clinton born 1946
  32. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  33. Angela Merkel born 1954
  34. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  35. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  36. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  37. François Hollande born 1954
  38. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  39. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  40. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  41. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  42. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  43. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  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. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  53. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  54. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  55. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  56. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  57. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  58. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  59. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  60. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  61. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  62. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  63. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  64. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  65. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  66. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  67. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  68. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  69. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  70. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  71. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  72. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  73. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  74. Xi Jinping born 1953
  75. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  76. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  77. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  78. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  79. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  80. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  81. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  82. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  83. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  84. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  85. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  86. Bob Dylan born 1941
  87. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  88. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  89. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  90. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  91. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  92. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  93. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  94. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  95. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  96. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  97. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  98. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  99. Charles III born 1948
  100. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  101. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  102. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  103. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  104. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  105. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  106. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  107. Narendra Modi born 1950
  108. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  109. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  110. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  111. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  112. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  113. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  114. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  115. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  116. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  117. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  118. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  119. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  120. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  121. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  122. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  123. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  124. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  125. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  126. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  127. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  128. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  129. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  130. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  131. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  132. Shinzo Abe 1954 – 2022
  133. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  134. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  135. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  136. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  137. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  138. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  139. Jackie Chan born 1954
  140. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  141. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  142. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  143. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  144. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  145. Robin Williams 1951 – 2014
  146. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  147. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  148. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  149. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  150. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972