Who Was Alive

Janis Joplin

American singer

Born 19 January 1943 · died 4 October 1970, aged 27

Who was alive at the same time as Janis Joplin?

  1. Mahatma Gandhi
  2. Winston Churchill
  3. Joseph Stalin
  4. Albert Einstein
  5. Pablo Picasso
  6. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  7. Charlie Chaplin
  8. Adolf Hitler
  9. Salvador Dalí
  10. Ronald Reagan
  11. John F. Kennedy
  12. Nelson Mandela
  13. Elizabeth II
  14. Marilyn Monroe
  15. Martin Luther King Jr.
  16. Joe Biden
  17. Janis Joplin
  18. Donald Trump
  19. George W. Bush
  20. Vladimir Putin
  21. Bill Gates
  22. Michael Jackson
  23. Barack Obama
  24. Jimmy Wales
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When Janis Joplin was born, Adolf Hitler was 53, Albert Einstein was 63, Ronald Reagan was 31, Nelson Mandela was 24 and Mahatma Gandhi was 73.

When Janis Joplin died, Barack Obama was 9, Donald Trump was 24, Michael Jackson was 12, Vladimir Putin was 17 and Ronald Reagan was 59.

Born during Janis Joplin’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, George W. Bush, Bill Gates, Jimmy Wales and Steve Jobs.

Not quite contemporaries: Thomas Edison died 12 years before Janis Joplin was born, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk died 5 years before Janis Joplin was born, Sigmund Freud died 4 years before Janis Joplin was born and Marie Curie died 9 years before Janis Joplin was born.

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