Who Was Alive

Jimi Hendrix

American guitarist

Born 27 November 1942 · died 18 September 1970, aged 27

Who was alive at the same time as Jimi Hendrix?

  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. Jimi Hendrix
  18. Donald Trump
  19. George W. Bush
  20. Vladimir Putin
  21. Bill Gates
  22. Michael Jackson
  23. Barack Obama
  24. Jimmy Wales
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Jimi Hendrix was born, Adolf Hitler was 53, Albert Einstein was 63, Ronald Reagan was 31, Nelson Mandela was 24 and Mahatma Gandhi was 73.

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

Born during Jimi Hendrix’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 11 years before Jimi Hendrix was born, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk died 4 years before Jimi Hendrix was born, Sigmund Freud died 3 years before Jimi Hendrix was born and Marie Curie died 8 years before Jimi Hendrix was born.

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All 972 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. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  18. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  19. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  20. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  21. Bill Gates born 1955
  22. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  23. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  24. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  25. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  26. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  27. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  28. Bill Clinton born 1946
  29. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  30. Angela Merkel born 1954
  31. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  32. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  33. François Hollande born 1954
  34. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  35. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  36. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  37. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  38. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  39. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  40. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  41. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  42. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  43. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  44. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  45. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  46. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  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. Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  56. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  57. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  58. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  59. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  60. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  61. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  62. Madonna born 1958
  63. Kamala Harris born 1964
  64. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  65. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  66. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  67. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  68. Xi Jinping born 1953
  69. Naruhito born 1960
  70. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  71. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  72. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  73. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  74. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  75. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  76. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  77. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  78. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  79. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  80. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  81. Bob Dylan born 1941
  82. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  83. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  84. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  85. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  86. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  87. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  88. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  89. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  90. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  91. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  92. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  93. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  94. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  95. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  96. Charles III born 1948
  97. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  98. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  99. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  100. Leo XIV born 1955
  101. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  102. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  103. Narendra Modi born 1950
  104. Rafael Correa born 1963
  105. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  106. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  107. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  108. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  109. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  110. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  111. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  112. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  113. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  114. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  115. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  116. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  117. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  118. Tenzin Gyatso born 1935
  119. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  120. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  121. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  122. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  123. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  124. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  125. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  126. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  127. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  128. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  129. Shinzō Abe 1954 – 2022
  130. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  131. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  132. Isaac Asimov 1919–1920 – 1992
  133. Tim Berners-Lee born 1955
  134. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  135. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  136. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  137. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  138. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  139. Robin Williams 1951 – 2014
  140. Jackie Chan born 1954
  141. Kim Il-sung 1912 – 1994
  142. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  143. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  144. Guillermo Lasso born 1955
  145. Céline Dion born 1968
  146. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  147. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  148. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  149. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  150. Alexander Lukashenka born 1954

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