Who Was Alive

Marilyn Monroe

American actress and model

Born 1 June 1926 · died 4–5 August 1962, aged 36

Who was alive at the same time as Marilyn Monroe?

  1. Thomas Edison
  2. Sigmund Freud
  3. Marie Curie
  4. Mahatma Gandhi
  5. Winston Churchill
  6. Joseph Stalin
  7. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  8. Albert Einstein
  9. Pablo Picasso
  10. Charlie Chaplin
  11. Adolf Hitler
  12. Salvador Dalí
  13. Ronald Reagan
  14. John F. Kennedy
  15. Nelson Mandela
  16. Elizabeth II
  17. Marilyn Monroe
  18. Martin Luther King Jr.
  19. Joe Biden
  20. Donald Trump
  21. George W. Bush
  22. Vladimir Putin
  23. Michael Jackson
  24. Barack Obama
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Marilyn Monroe was born, Adolf Hitler was 37, Albert Einstein was 47, Ronald Reagan was 15, Nelson Mandela was 7 and Mahatma Gandhi was 56.

When Marilyn Monroe died, Barack Obama was 1, Donald Trump was 16, Michael Jackson was 3, Vladimir Putin was 9 and Ronald Reagan was 51.

Born during Marilyn Monroe’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Martin Luther King Jr. and Bill Gates.

Not quite contemporaries: Vladimir Lenin died 2 years before Marilyn Monroe was born, Franz Kafka died 2 years before Marilyn Monroe was born, Jimmy Wales was born 4 years after Marilyn Monroe died and Shakira was born 15 years after Marilyn Monroe died.

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  1. Barack Obama born 1961
  2. Donald Trump born 1946
  3. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  4. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  5. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  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. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  18. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  19. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  20. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  21. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  22. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  23. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  24. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  25. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  26. Bill Gates born 1955
  27. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  28. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  29. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  30. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  31. Bill Clinton born 1946
  32. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  33. Angela Merkel born 1954
  34. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  35. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  36. François Hollande born 1954
  37. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  38. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  39. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  40. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  41. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  42. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  43. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  44. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  45. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  46. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  47. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  48. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  49. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  50. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  51. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  52. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  53. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  54. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  55. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  56. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  57. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  58. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  59. Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  60. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  61. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  62. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  63. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  64. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  65. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  66. Madonna born 1958
  67. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  68. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  69. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  70. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  71. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  72. Xi Jinping born 1953
  73. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  74. Naruhito born 1960
  75. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  76. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  77. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  78. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  79. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  80. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  81. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  82. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  83. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  84. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  85. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  86. Bob Dylan born 1941
  87. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  88. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  89. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  90. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  91. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  92. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  93. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  94. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  95. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  96. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  97. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  98. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  99. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  100. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  101. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  102. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  103. Charles III born 1948
  104. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  105. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  106. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  107. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  108. Leo XIV born 1955
  109. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  110. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  111. Narendra Modi born 1950
  112. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  113. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  114. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  115. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  116. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  117. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  118. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  119. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  120. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  121. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  122. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  123. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  124. Tenzin Gyatso born 1935
  125. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  126. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  127. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  128. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  129. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  130. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  131. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  132. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  133. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  134. Shinzō Abe 1954 – 2022
  135. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  136. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  137. Isaac Asimov 1919–1920 – 1992
  138. Tim Berners-Lee born 1955
  139. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  140. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  141. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  142. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  143. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  144. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  145. Robin Williams 1951 – 2014
  146. Jackie Chan born 1954
  147. Kim Il-sung 1912 – 1994
  148. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  149. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  150. Guillermo Lasso born 1955

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