Who Was Alive

José Mujica

Uruguayan guerrilla fighter and politician

Born 20 May 1935 · died 13 May 2025, aged 89

Who was alive at the same time as José Mujica?

  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. José Mujica
  19. Joe Biden
  20. Donald Trump
  21. George W. Bush
  22. Vladimir Putin
  23. Michael Jackson
  24. Barack Obama
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When José Mujica was born, Adolf Hitler was 46, Albert Einstein was 56, Ronald Reagan was 24, Nelson Mandela was 16 and Mahatma Gandhi was 65.

When José Mujica died, Barack Obama was 63, Donald Trump was 78, Vladimir Putin was 72, George W. Bush was 78 and Joe Biden was 82.

Born during José Mujica’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 José Mujica was born, Thomas Edison died 4 years before José Mujica was born, Marie Curie died about a year before José Mujica was born and Franz Kafka died 11 years before José Mujica was born.

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  8. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
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