Who Was Alive
Lee Harvey Oswald
Dallas Police; Warren Commission, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Lee Harvey Oswald

American laborer

Born 18 October 1939 · died 24 November 1963, aged 24
Also known as O.H. Lee, Alek J.Hidell, Oswald

Who was alive at the same time as Lee Harvey Oswald?

  1. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  2. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  3. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  4. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  5. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  6. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  7. Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1882 – 1945
  8. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  9. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  10. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  11. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  12. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  13. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  14. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  15. Marilyn Monroe, 1926 – 1962
  16. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968
  17. Lee Harvey Oswald, 1939 – 1963
  18. Joe Biden, born 1942
  19. Donald Trump, born 1946
  20. George W. Bush, born 1946
  21. Vladimir Putin, born 1952
  22. Bill Gates, born 1955
  23. Michael Jackson, 1958 – 2009
  24. Barack Obama, born 1961

Drag across the timeline, or use the arrow keys, to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Dashed lines mark world events. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Lee Harvey Oswald was born, Adolf Hitler was 50, Albert Einstein was 60, Ronald Reagan was 28, Nelson Mandela was 21 and Mahatma Gandhi was 70.

When Lee Harvey Oswald died, Barack Obama was 2, Donald Trump was 17, Michael Jackson was 5, Vladimir Putin was 11 and Ronald Reagan was 52.

Born during Lee Harvey Oswald’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.

Not quite contemporaries: Thomas Edison died about 8 years before Lee Harvey Oswald was born, Sigmund Freud died months before Lee Harvey Oswald was born, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk died about a year before Lee Harvey Oswald was born and Marie Curie died about 5 years before Lee Harvey Oswald was born.

What happened in Lee Harvey Oswald’s lifetime

Where Lee Harvey Oswald’s contemporaries were born

Lee Harvey Oswald is labelled; the others are the best-known people we track who lived at the same time. Each dot is a birthplace from Wikidata (78 of 81 placed); tap one to open that person.
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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,937 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Lee Harvey Oswald. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1951.

  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. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  9. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  10. George W. Bush born 1946
  11. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  12. Joe Biden born 1942
  13. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  14. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  15. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  16. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  17. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  18. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  19. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  20. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  21. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  22. Bill Gates born 1955
  23. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  24. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  25. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  26. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  27. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  28. Bill Clinton born 1946
  29. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  30. Angela Merkel born 1954
  31. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  32. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  33. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  34. François Hollande born 1954
  35. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  36. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  37. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  38. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  39. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  40. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  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. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  48. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  49. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  50. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  51. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  52. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  53. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  54. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  55. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  56. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  57. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  58. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  59. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  60. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  61. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  62. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  63. Madonna born 1958
  64. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  65. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  66. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  67. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  68. Xi Jinping born 1953
  69. Naruhito born 1960
  70. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  71. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  72. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  73. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  74. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  75. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  76. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  77. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  78. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  79. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  80. Bob Dylan born 1941
  81. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  82. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  83. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  84. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  85. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  86. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  87. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  88. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  89. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  90. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  91. Charles III born 1948
  92. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  93. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  94. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  95. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  96. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  97. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  98. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  99. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  100. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  101. Narendra Modi born 1950
  102. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  103. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  104. Rafael Correa born 1963
  105. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  106. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  107. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  108. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  109. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  110. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  111. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  112. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  113. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  114. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  115. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  116. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  117. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  118. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  119. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  120. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  121. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  122. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  123. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  124. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  125. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  126. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  127. Shinzo Abe 1954 – 2022
  128. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  129. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  130. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  131. Tim Berners-Lee born 1955
  132. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  133. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  134. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  135. Jackie Chan born 1954
  136. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  137. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  138. Robin Williams 1951 – 2014
  139. Guillermo Lasso born 1955
  140. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  141. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  142. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  143. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  144. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  145. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  146. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  147. Alexander Lukashenko born 1954
  148. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  149. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  150. Woody Allen born 1935