Who Was Alive

Were Lise Meitner and Barack Obama alive at the same time?

Yes. Lise Meitner and Barack Obama were alive at the same time for 7 years, from 1961 to 1968.

Lise Meitner was 82 when Barack Obama was born.

Barack Obama was 7 when Lise Meitner died, aged 89.

Lise Meitner

Austrian-Swedish physicist

Born November 1878 · died 27 October 1968, aged 89

Barack Obama

44th President of the United States

Born 4 August 1961 · living, 65 as of September 2026

  1. Lise Meitner
  2. Albert Einstein
  3. Adolf Hitler
  4. Ronald Reagan
  5. Nelson Mandela
  6. Donald Trump
  7. Vladimir Putin
  8. Michael Jackson
  9. Barack Obama
Lise Meitner and Barack Obama in bold, with some of their best-known contemporaries. Drag across to see the age each reached in any year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.