Who Was Alive

Were Claude Lévi-Strauss and Barack Obama alive at the same time?

Yes. Claude Lévi-Strauss and Barack Obama were alive at the same time for 48 years, from 1961 to 2009.

Claude Lévi-Strauss was 52 when Barack Obama was born.

Barack Obama was 48 when Claude Lévi-Strauss died, aged 100.

Claude Lévi-Strauss

French anthropologist and ethnologist

Born 28 November 1908 · died 30 October 2009, aged 100

Barack Obama

44th President of the United States

Born 4 August 1961 · living, 65 as of September 2026

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Claude Lévi-Strauss and Barack Obama in bold, with some of their best-known contemporaries. Drag across to see the age each reached in any year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.