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Hastings Banda
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Hastings Banda

Malawian politician who served as President of Malawi

Born 1890s · died 25 November 1997
Also known as Hastings Kamuzu Banda, H. Kamuzu Banda

Who was alive at the same time as Hastings Banda?

  1. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  2. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  3. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  4. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  5. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  6. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  7. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  8. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  9. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  10. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  11. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  12. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  13. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  14. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  15. Hastings Banda, 1890s – 1997
  16. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  17. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  18. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  19. Joe Biden, born 1942
  20. Donald Trump, born 1946
  21. George W. Bush, born 1946
  22. Vladimir Putin, born 1952
  23. Michael Jackson, 1958 – 2009
  24. Barack Obama, born 1961

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When Hastings Banda died, Barack Obama was 36, Donald Trump was 51, Michael Jackson was 39, Vladimir Putin was 45 and Ronald Reagan was 86.

Born during Hastings Banda’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush and Joe Biden.

Not quite contemporaries: Karl Marx died about 7 years before Hastings Banda was born, Charles Darwin died about 8 years before Hastings Banda was born, Victor Hugo died about 5 years before Hastings Banda was born and Fyodor Dostoevsky died about 9 years before Hastings Banda was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

4,638 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Hastings Banda. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1948.

  1. Barack Obama born 1961
  2. Donald Trump born 1946
  3. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  4. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  5. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  6. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  7. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  8. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  9. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  10. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  11. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  12. George W. Bush born 1946
  13. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  14. Joe Biden born 1942
  15. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  16. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  17. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  18. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  19. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  20. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  21. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  22. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  23. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  24. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  25. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  26. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  27. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  28. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  29. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  30. Bill Gates born 1955
  31. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  32. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  33. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  34. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  35. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  36. Shakira born 1977
  37. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  38. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  39. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  40. Lionel Messi born 1987
  41. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  42. Corbin Bleu born 1989
  43. Bill Clinton born 1946
  44. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  45. Basshunter born 1984
  46. Angela Merkel born 1954
  47. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  48. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  49. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  50. François Hollande born 1954
  51. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  52. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  53. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  54. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  55. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  56. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  57. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  58. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  59. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  60. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  61. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  62. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  63. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  64. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  65. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  66. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  67. Elon Musk born 1971
  68. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  69. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  70. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  71. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  72. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  73. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  74. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  75. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  76. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  77. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  78. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  79. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  80. Lady Gaga born 1986
  81. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  82. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  83. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  84. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  85. Madonna born 1958
  86. Kamala Harris born 1964
  87. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  88. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  89. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  90. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  91. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  92. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  93. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  94. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  95. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  96. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  97. Xi Jinping born 1953
  98. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  99. Naruhito born 1960
  100. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  101. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  102. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  103. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  104. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  105. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  106. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  107. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  108. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  109. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  110. Bob Dylan born 1941
  111. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  112. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  113. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  114. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  115. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  116. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  117. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  118. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  119. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  120. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  121. Justin Bieber born 1994
  122. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  123. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  124. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  125. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  126. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  127. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  128. Taylor Swift born 1989
  129. Charles III born 1948
  130. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  131. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  132. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  133. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  134. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  135. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  136. Kim Jong Un born 1984
  137. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  138. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  139. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  140. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  141. Eminem born 1972
  142. Beyoncé born 1981
  143. Selena Gomez born 1992
  144. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  145. Narendra Modi born 1950
  146. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  147. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  148. Rafael Correa born 1963
  149. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  150. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982