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Joyce Banda
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Joyce Banda

Malawian politician who served as President of Malawi

Born 12 April 1950 · living, 76 as of October 2026
Also known as Joyce Hilda Banda, Joyce Hilda Mtila Banda, JB

Who was alive at the same time as Joyce Banda?

  1. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  2. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  3. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  4. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  5. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  6. Mao Zedong, 1893 – 1976
  7. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  8. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  9. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  10. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  11. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  12. Marilyn Monroe, 1926 – 1962
  13. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968
  14. Pope Francis, 1936 – 2025
  15. Joe Biden, born 1942
  16. Donald Trump, born 1946
  17. George W. Bush, born 1946
  18. Joyce Banda, born 1950
  19. Vladimir Putin, born 1952
  20. Bill Gates, born 1955
  21. Michael Jackson, 1958 – 2009
  22. Barack Obama, born 1961
  23. Jimmy Wales, born 1966
  24. Shakira, born 1977

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When Joyce Banda was born, Donald Trump was 3, Albert Einstein was 71, Ronald Reagan was 39, Nelson Mandela was 31 and George W. Bush was 3.

Born during Joyce Banda’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Bill Gates, Jimmy Wales, Shakira, Steve Jobs and Lionel Messi.

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler died about 5 years before Joyce Banda was born, Mahatma Gandhi died about 2 years before Joyce Banda was born, Sigmund Freud died about 11 years before Joyce Banda was born and Mustafa Kemal Atatürk died about 12 years before Joyce Banda was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

4,093 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Joyce Banda. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1988.

  1. Barack Obama born 1961
  2. Donald Trump born 1946
  3. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  4. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  5. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  6. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  7. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  8. George W. Bush born 1946
  9. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  10. Joe Biden born 1942
  11. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  12. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  13. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  14. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  15. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  16. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  17. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  18. Bill Gates born 1955
  19. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  20. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  21. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  22. Shakira born 1977
  23. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  24. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  25. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  26. Lionel Messi born 1987
  27. Corbin Bleu born 1989
  28. Bill Clinton born 1946
  29. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  30. Basshunter born 1984
  31. Angela Merkel born 1954
  32. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  33. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  34. François Hollande born 1954
  35. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  36. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  37. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  38. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  39. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  40. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  41. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  42. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  43. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  44. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  45. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  46. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  47. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  48. Elon Musk born 1971
  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. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  57. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  58. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  59. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  60. Lady Gaga born 1986
  61. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  62. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  63. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  64. Madonna born 1958
  65. Kamala Harris born 1964
  66. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  67. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  68. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  69. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  70. Xi Jinping born 1953
  71. Naruhito born 1960
  72. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  73. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  74. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  75. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  76. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  77. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  78. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  79. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  80. Bob Dylan born 1941
  81. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  82. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  83. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  84. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  85. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  86. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  87. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  88. Justin Bieber born 1994
  89. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  90. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  91. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  92. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  93. Taylor Swift born 1989
  94. Charles III born 1948
  95. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  96. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  97. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  98. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  99. Kim Jong Un born 1984
  100. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  101. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  102. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  103. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  104. Eminem born 1972
  105. Beyoncé born 1981
  106. Selena Gomez born 1992
  107. Narendra Modi born 1950
  108. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  109. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  110. Rafael Correa born 1963
  111. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  112. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  113. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  114. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  115. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  116. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  117. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  118. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  119. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  120. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  121. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  122. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  123. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  124. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  125. Mark Zuckerberg born 1984
  126. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  127. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  128. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  129. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  130. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  131. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  132. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  133. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  134. Shinzo Abe 1954 – 2022
  135. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  136. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  137. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  138. Tim Berners-Lee born 1955
  139. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  140. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  141. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  142. Jackie Chan born 1954
  143. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  144. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  145. Robin Williams 1951 – 2014
  146. Guillermo Lasso born 1955
  147. Celine Dion born 1968
  148. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  149. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  150. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019