Who Was Alive

Elvis Presley

American singer and actor

Born 8 January 1935 · died 16 August 1977, aged 42

Who was alive at the same time as Elvis Presley?

  1. Sigmund Freud
  2. Rabindranath Tagore
  3. Mahatma Gandhi
  4. Winston Churchill
  5. Joseph Stalin
  6. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  7. Albert Einstein
  8. Pablo Picasso
  9. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  10. Charlie Chaplin
  11. Adolf Hitler
  12. Salvador Dalí
  13. Ronald Reagan
  14. John F. Kennedy
  15. Nelson Mandela
  16. Elizabeth II
  17. Martin Luther King Jr.
  18. Elvis Presley
  19. Joe Biden
  20. Donald Trump
  21. George W. Bush
  22. Vladimir Putin
  23. Michael Jackson
  24. Barack Obama
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When Elvis Presley was born, Adolf Hitler was 45, Albert Einstein was 55, Ronald Reagan was 23, Nelson Mandela was 16 and Mahatma Gandhi was 65.

When Elvis Presley died, Barack Obama was 16, Donald Trump was 31, Michael Jackson was 18, Vladimir Putin was 24 and Ronald Reagan was 66.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Vladimir Lenin died 11 years before Elvis Presley was born, Thomas Edison died 4 years before Elvis Presley was born, Marie Curie died about a year before Elvis Presley was born and Franz Kafka died 11 years before Elvis Presley was born.

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All 1,100 contemporaries we track

  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. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  18. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  19. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  20. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  21. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  22. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  23. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  24. Bill Gates born 1955
  25. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  26. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  27. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  28. Shakira born 1977
  29. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  30. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  31. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  32. Bill Clinton born 1946
  33. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  34. Angela Merkel born 1954
  35. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  36. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  37. François Hollande born 1954
  38. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  39. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  40. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  41. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  42. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  43. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  44. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  45. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  46. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  47. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  48. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  49. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  50. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  51. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  52. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  53. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  54. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  55. Elon Musk born 1971
  56. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  57. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  58. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  59. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  60. Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  61. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  62. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  63. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  64. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  65. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  66. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  67. Madonna born 1958
  68. Kamala Harris born 1964
  69. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  70. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  71. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  72. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  73. Xi Jinping born 1953
  74. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  75. Naruhito born 1960
  76. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  77. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  78. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  79. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  80. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  81. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  82. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  83. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  84. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  85. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  86. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  87. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  88. Bob Dylan born 1941
  89. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  90. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  91. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  92. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  93. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  94. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  95. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  96. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  97. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  98. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  99. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  100. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  101. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  102. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  103. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  104. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  105. Charles III born 1948
  106. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  107. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  108. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  109. Eminem born 1972
  110. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  111. Leo XIV born 1955
  112. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  113. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  114. Narendra Modi born 1950
  115. Rafael Correa born 1963
  116. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  117. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  118. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  119. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  120. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  121. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  122. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  123. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  124. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  125. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  126. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  127. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  128. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  129. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  130. Tenzin Gyatso born 1935
  131. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  132. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  133. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  134. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  135. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  136. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  137. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  138. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  139. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  140. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  141. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  142. Shinzō Abe 1954 – 2022
  143. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  144. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  145. Isaac Asimov 1919–1920 – 1992
  146. Tim Berners-Lee born 1955
  147. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  148. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  149. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  150. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007

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