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Kenneth Arrow
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Kenneth Arrow

American economist

Born 23 August 1921 · died 21 February 2017, aged 95
Also known as Kenneth Joseph Arrow, Kenneth J. Arrow, Ken Arrow

Who was alive at the same time as Kenneth Arrow?

  1. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  2. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  3. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  4. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  5. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  6. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  7. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  8. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  9. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  10. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  11. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  12. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  13. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  14. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  15. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  16. Kenneth Arrow, 1921 – 2017
  17. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  18. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968
  19. Joe Biden, born 1942
  20. Donald Trump, born 1946
  21. George W. Bush, born 1946
  22. Vladimir Putin, born 1952
  23. Michael Jackson, 1958 – 2009
  24. Barack Obama, born 1961

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When Kenneth Arrow was born, Adolf Hitler was 32, Albert Einstein was 42, Ronald Reagan was 10, Vladimir Lenin was 51 and Nelson Mandela was 3.

When Kenneth Arrow died, Barack Obama was 55, Donald Trump was 70, Vladimir Putin was 64, George W. Bush was 70 and Joe Biden was 74.

Born during Kenneth Arrow’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Elizabeth II and Martin Luther King Jr..

Not quite contemporaries: Leo Tolstoy died about 11 years before Kenneth Arrow was born, Mark Twain died about 11 years before Kenneth Arrow was born, Theodore Roosevelt died about 2 years before Kenneth Arrow was born and Rosa Luxemburg died about 2 years before Kenneth Arrow was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

4,487 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Kenneth Arrow. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1969.

  1. Barack Obama born 1961
  2. Donald Trump born 1946
  3. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  4. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  5. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  6. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  7. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  8. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  9. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  10. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  11. George W. Bush born 1946
  12. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  13. Joe Biden born 1942
  14. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  15. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  16. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  17. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  18. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  19. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  21. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  22. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  23. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  24. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  25. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  26. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  27. Bill Gates born 1955
  28. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  29. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  30. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  31. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  32. Shakira born 1977
  33. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  34. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  35. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  36. Lionel Messi born 1987
  37. Corbin Bleu born 1989
  38. Bill Clinton born 1946
  39. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  40. Basshunter born 1984
  41. Angela Merkel born 1954
  42. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  43. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  44. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  45. François Hollande born 1954
  46. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  47. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  48. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  49. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  50. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  51. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  52. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  53. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  54. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  55. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  56. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  57. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  58. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  59. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  60. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  61. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  62. Elon Musk born 1971
  63. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  64. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  65. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  66. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  67. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  68. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  69. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  70. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  71. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  72. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  73. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  74. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  75. Lady Gaga born 1986
  76. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  77. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  78. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  79. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  80. Madonna born 1958
  81. Kamala Harris born 1964
  82. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  83. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  84. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  85. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  86. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  87. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  88. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  89. Xi Jinping born 1953
  90. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  91. Naruhito born 1960
  92. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  93. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  94. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  95. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  96. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  97. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  98. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  99. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  100. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  101. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  102. Bob Dylan born 1941
  103. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  104. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  105. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  106. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  107. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  108. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  109. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  110. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  111. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  112. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  113. Justin Bieber born 1994
  114. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  115. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  116. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  117. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  118. Taylor Swift born 1989
  119. Charles III born 1948
  120. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  121. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  122. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  123. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  124. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  125. Kim Jong Un born 1984
  126. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  127. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  128. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  129. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  130. Eminem born 1972
  131. Beyoncé born 1981
  132. Selena Gomez born 1992
  133. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  134. Narendra Modi born 1950
  135. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  136. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  137. Rafael Correa born 1963
  138. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  139. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  140. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  141. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  142. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  143. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  144. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  145. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  146. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  147. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  148. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  149. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  150. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946