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Koichi Tanaka
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Koichi Tanaka

Japanese chemist

Born 3 August 1959 · living, 67 as of October 2026

Who was alive at the same time as Koichi Tanaka?

  1. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  2. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  3. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  4. Mao Zedong, 1893 – 1976
  5. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  6. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  7. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  8. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  9. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  10. Marilyn Monroe, 1926 – 1962
  11. Che Guevara, 1928 – 1967
  12. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968
  13. Pope Francis, 1936 – 2025
  14. Joe Biden, born 1942
  15. Donald Trump, born 1946
  16. George W. Bush, born 1946
  17. Vladimir Putin, born 1952
  18. Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011
  19. Bill Gates, born 1955
  20. Michael Jackson, 1958 – 2009
  21. Koichi Tanaka, born 1959
  22. Barack Obama, born 1961
  23. Jimmy Wales, born 1966
  24. Shakira, born 1977

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When Koichi Tanaka was born, Donald Trump was 13, Michael Jackson was under a year old, Vladimir Putin was 6, Ronald Reagan was 48 and Nelson Mandela was 41.

Born during Koichi Tanaka’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Jimmy Wales, Shakira, Lionel Messi, Corbin Bleu, Basshunter, Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Cristiano Ronaldo.

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler died about 14 years before Koichi Tanaka was born, Albert Einstein died about 4 years before Koichi Tanaka was born, Mahatma Gandhi died about 11 years before Koichi Tanaka was born and Joseph Stalin died about 6 years before Koichi Tanaka was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

3,965 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Koichi Tanaka. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1993.

  1. Barack Obama born 1961
  2. Donald Trump born 1946
  3. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  4. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  5. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  6. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  7. George W. Bush born 1946
  8. Joe Biden born 1942
  9. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  10. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  11. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  12. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  13. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  14. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  15. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  16. Bill Gates born 1955
  17. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  18. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  19. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  20. Shakira born 1977
  21. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  22. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  23. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  24. Lionel Messi born 1987
  25. Corbin Bleu born 1989
  26. Bill Clinton born 1946
  27. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  28. Basshunter born 1984
  29. Angela Merkel born 1954
  30. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  31. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  32. François Hollande born 1954
  33. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  34. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  35. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  36. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  37. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  38. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  39. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  40. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  41. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  42. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  43. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  44. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  45. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  46. Elon Musk born 1971
  47. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  48. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  49. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  50. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  51. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  52. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  53. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  54. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  55. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  56. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  57. Lady Gaga born 1986
  58. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  59. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  60. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  61. Madonna born 1958
  62. Kamala Harris born 1964
  63. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  64. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  65. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  66. Xi Jinping born 1953
  67. Naruhito born 1960
  68. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  69. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  70. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  71. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  72. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  73. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  74. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  75. Bob Dylan born 1941
  76. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  77. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  78. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  79. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  80. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  81. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  82. Justin Bieber born 1994
  83. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  84. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  85. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  86. Taylor Swift born 1989
  87. Charles III born 1948
  88. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  89. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  90. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  91. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  92. Kim Jong Un born 1984
  93. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  94. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  95. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  96. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  97. Eminem born 1972
  98. Beyoncé born 1981
  99. Selena Gomez born 1992
  100. Narendra Modi born 1950
  101. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  102. Rafael Correa born 1963
  103. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  104. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  105. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  106. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  107. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  108. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  109. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  110. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  111. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  112. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  113. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  114. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  115. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  116. Mark Zuckerberg born 1984
  117. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  118. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  119. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  120. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  121. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  122. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  123. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  124. Shinzo Abe 1954 – 2022
  125. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  126. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  127. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  128. Tim Berners-Lee born 1955
  129. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  130. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  131. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  132. Jackie Chan born 1954
  133. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  134. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  135. Robin Williams 1951 – 2014
  136. Guillermo Lasso born 1955
  137. Celine Dion born 1968
  138. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  139. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  140. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  141. Roger Federer born 1981
  142. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  143. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  144. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  145. Lana Del Rey born 1985
  146. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  147. Alexander Lukashenko born 1954
  148. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  149. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  150. Woody Allen born 1935