Who Was Alive
Li Wenliang
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Li Wenliang

Chinese physician

Born 1985–1986 · died 7 February 2020, aged 33 or 34
Also known as Wenliang Li, Wen Liang Li, Li Wen Liang

Who was alive at the same time as Li Wenliang?

  1. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  2. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  3. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  4. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  5. Neil Armstrong, 1930 – 2012
  6. Pope Francis, 1936 – 2025
  7. Joe Biden, born 1942
  8. Donald Trump, born 1946
  9. George W. Bush, born 1946
  10. Bill Clinton, born 1946
  11. Vladimir Putin, born 1952
  12. Angela Merkel, born 1954
  13. François Hollande, born 1954
  14. Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011
  15. Bill Gates, born 1955
  16. Michael Jackson, 1958 – 2009
  17. Barack Obama, born 1961
  18. Jimmy Wales, born 1966
  19. Shakira, born 1977
  20. Volodymyr Zelenskyy, born 1978
  21. Basshunter, born 1984
  22. Li Wenliang, c. 1986 – 2020
  23. Lionel Messi, born 1987
  24. Corbin Bleu, born 1989

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When Li Wenliang was born, Barack Obama was 24 or 25, Donald Trump was 39 or 40, Michael Jackson was 27 or 28, Vladimir Putin was 33 or 34 and Ronald Reagan was 74 or 75.

When Li Wenliang died, Barack Obama was 58, Donald Trump was 73, Vladimir Putin was 67, George W. Bush was 73 and Joe Biden was 77.

Born during Li Wenliang’s lifetime: Lionel Messi, Corbin Bleu, Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez, Neymar, Rihanna and Malala Yousafzai.

Not quite contemporaries: Pablo Picasso died about 12 years before Li Wenliang was born, Charlie Chaplin died about 8 years before Li Wenliang was born, Mao Zedong died about 9 years before Li Wenliang was born and Charles de Gaulle died about 15 years before Li Wenliang was born.

What happened in Li Wenliang’s lifetime

Where Li Wenliang’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

3,435 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Li Wenliang. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 2003.

  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. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  10. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  11. Bill Gates born 1955
  12. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  13. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  14. Shakira born 1977
  15. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  16. Lionel Messi born 1987
  17. Corbin Bleu born 1989
  18. Bill Clinton born 1946
  19. Basshunter born 1984
  20. Angela Merkel born 1954
  21. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  22. François Hollande born 1954
  23. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  24. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  25. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  26. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  27. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  28. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  29. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  30. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  31. Elon Musk born 1971
  32. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  33. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  34. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  35. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  36. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  37. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  38. Lady Gaga born 1986
  39. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  40. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  41. Madonna born 1958
  42. Kamala Harris born 1964
  43. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  44. Xi Jinping born 1953
  45. Naruhito born 1960
  46. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  47. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  48. Bob Dylan born 1941
  49. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  50. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  51. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  52. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  53. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  54. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  55. Justin Bieber born 1994
  56. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  57. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  58. Taylor Swift born 1989
  59. Charles III born 1948
  60. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  61. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  62. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  63. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  64. Kim Jong Un born 1984
  65. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  66. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  67. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  68. Eminem born 1972
  69. Beyoncé born 1981
  70. Selena Gomez born 1992
  71. Narendra Modi born 1950
  72. Rafael Correa born 1963
  73. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  74. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  75. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  76. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  77. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  78. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  79. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  80. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  81. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  82. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  83. Mark Zuckerberg born 1984
  84. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  85. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  86. Shinzo Abe 1954 – 2022
  87. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  88. Tim Berners-Lee born 1955
  89. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  90. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  91. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  92. Jackie Chan born 1954
  93. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  94. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  95. Robin Williams 1951 – 2014
  96. Guillermo Lasso born 1955
  97. Celine Dion born 1968
  98. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  99. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  100. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  101. Roger Federer born 1981
  102. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  103. Lana Del Rey born 1985
  104. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  105. Alexander Lukashenko born 1954
  106. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  107. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  108. Woody Allen born 1935
  109. Neymar born 1992
  110. Tony Blair born 1953
  111. Rihanna born 1988
  112. Malala Yousafzai born 1997
  113. Scarlett Johansson born 1984
  114. Rafael Nadal born 1986
  115. Yasser Arafat 1929 – 2004
  116. Greta Thunberg born 2003
  117. Ban Ki-moon born 1944
  118. Arnold Schwarzenegger born 1947
  119. David Cameron born 1966
  120. Linus Torvalds born 1969
  121. Novak Djokovic born 1987
  122. Brigitte Bardot 1934 – 2025
  123. Hebe Camargo 1929 – 2012
  124. Umberto Eco 1932 – 2016
  125. Diana, Princess of Wales 1961 – 1997
  126. Boris Johnson born 1964
  127. Bashar al-Assad born 1965
  128. Audrey Hepburn 1929 – 1993
  129. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva born 1945
  130. Benazir Bhutto 1953 – 2007
  131. Jair Bolsonaro born 1955
  132. Paul McCartney born 1942
  133. Anggun born 1974
  134. Leonardo DiCaprio born 1974
  135. Agnez Mo born 1986
  136. Stephen King born 1947
  137. Theresa May born 1956
  138. Johnny Depp born 1963
  139. Brad Pitt born 1963
  140. Maya Angelou 1928 – 2014
  141. Zinedine Zidane born 1972
  142. Britney Spears born 1981
  143. Sean Connery 1930 – 2020
  144. Elizabeth Taylor 1932 – 2011
  145. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad born 1956
  146. Satyajit Ray 1921 – 1992
  147. Henry Kissinger 1923 – 2023
  148. Václav Havel 1936 – 2011
  149. Emma Watson born 1990
  150. Bhumibol Adulyadej 1927 – 2016