Who Was Alive

Kofi Annan

7th Secretary-General of the United Nations

Born 8 April 1938 · died 18 August 2018, aged 80

Who was alive at the same time as Kofi Annan?

  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. Kofi Annan
  19. Joe Biden
  20. Donald Trump
  21. George W. Bush
  22. Vladimir Putin
  23. Michael Jackson
  24. Barack Obama
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When Kofi Annan was born, Adolf Hitler was 48, Albert Einstein was 59, Ronald Reagan was 27, Nelson Mandela was 19 and Mahatma Gandhi was 68.

When Kofi Annan died, Barack Obama was 57, Donald Trump was 72, Vladimir Putin was 65, George W. Bush was 72 and Joe Biden was 75.

Born during Kofi Annan’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 14 years before Kofi Annan was born, Thomas Edison died 7 years before Kofi Annan was born, Marie Curie died 4 years before Kofi Annan was born and Franz Kafka died 14 years before Kofi Annan was born.

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