Who Was Alive

Were Karl Popper and Barack Obama alive at the same time?

Yes. Karl Popper and Barack Obama were alive at the same time for 33 years, from 1961 to 1994.

Karl Popper was 59 when Barack Obama was born.

Barack Obama was 33 when Karl Popper died, aged 92.

Karl Popper

Austrian-British philosopher of science and social and política e falsificationism and for criticism of Plato, Hegel and Marx as totalitarian opponents of open society

Born 28 July 1902 · died 17 September 1994, aged 92

Barack Obama

44th President of the United States

Born 4 August 1961 · living, 65 as of September 2026

  1. Albert Einstein
  2. Adolf Hitler
  3. Karl Popper
  4. Ronald Reagan
  5. Nelson Mandela
  6. Donald Trump
  7. Vladimir Putin
  8. Michael Jackson
  9. Barack Obama
Karl Popper and Barack Obama in bold, with some of their best-known contemporaries. Drag across to see the age each reached in any year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.