Who Was Alive
Glenn Miller
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Glenn Miller

American arranger and composer

Born 1 March 1904 · died 1944, aged 39 or 40
Also known as Alton Glenn Miller, Alton Glen Miller

Who was alive at the same time as Glenn Miller?

  1. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  2. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  3. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  4. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  5. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  6. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  7. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  8. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  9. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  10. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  11. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  12. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  13. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  14. Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1882 – 1945
  15. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  16. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  17. Glenn Miller, 1904 – 1944
  18. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  19. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  20. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  21. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  22. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  23. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968
  24. Joe Biden, born 1942

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When Glenn Miller was born, Adolf Hitler was 14, Albert Einstein was 24, Vladimir Lenin was 33, Mahatma Gandhi was 34 and Leo Tolstoy was 75.

When Glenn Miller died, Adolf Hitler was 54 or 55, Albert Einstein was 64 or 65, Ronald Reagan was 33, Nelson Mandela was 25 or 26 and Mahatma Gandhi was 74 or 75.

Born during Glenn Miller’s lifetime: Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Joe Biden, Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Salvador Dalí and Marilyn Monroe.

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born about 2 years after Glenn Miller died, Michael Jackson was born about 14 years after Glenn Miller died, Vladimir Putin was born about 8 years after Glenn Miller died and George W. Bush was born about 2 years after Glenn Miller died.

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Where Glenn Miller’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,409 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Glenn Miller. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1924.

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  4. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  5. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  6. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  7. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  8. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  9. Joe Biden born 1942
  10. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  11. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  12. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  13. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  14. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  15. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  16. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  17. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  18. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  19. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  20. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  21. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  22. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  23. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  24. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  25. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  26. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  27. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  28. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  29. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  30. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  31. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  32. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  33. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  34. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  35. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  36. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  37. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  38. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  39. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  40. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  41. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  42. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  43. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  44. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  45. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  46. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  47. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  48. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  49. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  50. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  51. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  52. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  53. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  54. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  55. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  56. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  57. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  58. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  59. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  60. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  61. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  62. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  63. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  64. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  65. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  66. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  67. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  68. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  69. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  70. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  71. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  72. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  73. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  74. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  75. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  76. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  77. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  78. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  79. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  80. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  81. Bob Dylan born 1941
  82. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  83. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  84. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  85. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  86. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  87. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  88. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  89. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  90. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  91. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  92. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  93. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  94. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  95. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  96. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  97. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  98. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  99. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  100. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  101. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  102. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  103. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  104. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  105. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  106. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  107. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  108. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  109. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  110. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  111. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  112. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  113. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  114. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  115. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  116. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  117. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  118. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  119. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  120. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  121. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  122. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  123. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  124. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  125. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  126. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  127. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  128. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  129. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  130. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  131. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  132. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  133. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  134. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  135. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  136. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  137. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  138. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  139. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  140. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  141. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  142. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  143. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  144. Woody Allen born 1935
  145. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  146. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  147. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  148. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  149. Yasser Arafat 1929 – 2004
  150. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961