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Marina Abramović
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Marina Abramović

Serbian performance artist

Born 30 November 1946 · living, 79 as of October 2026
Also known as Marina Abramovic, Marina Abramoviæ, Marina Abramovicz

Who was alive at the same time as Marina Abramović?

  1. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  2. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  3. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  4. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  5. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  6. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  7. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  8. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  9. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  10. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  11. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  12. Marilyn Monroe, 1926 – 1962
  13. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968
  14. Pope Francis, 1936 – 2025
  15. Joe Biden, born 1942
  16. Donald Trump, born 1946
  17. George W. Bush, born 1946
  18. Marina Abramović, born 1946
  19. Vladimir Putin, born 1952
  20. Bill Gates, born 1955
  21. Michael Jackson, 1958 – 2009
  22. Barack Obama, born 1961
  23. Jimmy Wales, born 1966
  24. Shakira, born 1977

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When Marina Abramović was born, Donald Trump was under a year old, Albert Einstein was 67, Ronald Reagan was 35, Nelson Mandela was 28 and Mahatma Gandhi was 77.

Born during Marina Abramović’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Bill Gates, Jimmy Wales, Shakira, Steve Jobs and Lionel Messi.

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler died about a year before Marina Abramović was born, Sigmund Freud died about 7 years before Marina Abramović was born, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk died about 8 years before Marina Abramović was born and Marie Curie died about 12 years before Marina Abramović was born.

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Where Marina Abramović’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

4,140 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Marina Abramović. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1986.

  1. Barack Obama born 1961
  2. Donald Trump born 1946
  3. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  4. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  5. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  6. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  7. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  8. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  9. George W. Bush born 1946
  10. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  11. Joe Biden born 1942
  12. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  13. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  14. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  15. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  16. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  17. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  18. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  19. Bill Gates born 1955
  20. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  21. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  22. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  23. Shakira born 1977
  24. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  25. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  26. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  27. Lionel Messi born 1987
  28. Corbin Bleu born 1989
  29. Bill Clinton born 1946
  30. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  31. Basshunter born 1984
  32. Angela Merkel born 1954
  33. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  34. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  35. François Hollande born 1954
  36. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  37. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  38. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  39. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  40. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  41. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  42. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  43. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  44. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  45. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  46. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  47. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  48. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  49. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  50. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  51. Elon Musk born 1971
  52. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  53. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  54. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  55. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  56. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  57. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  58. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  59. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  60. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  61. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  62. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  63. Lady Gaga born 1986
  64. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  65. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  66. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  67. Madonna born 1958
  68. Kamala Harris born 1964
  69. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  70. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  71. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  72. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  73. Xi Jinping born 1953
  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. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  81. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  82. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  83. Bob Dylan born 1941
  84. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  85. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  86. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  87. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  88. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  89. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  90. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  91. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  92. Justin Bieber born 1994
  93. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  94. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  95. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  96. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  97. Taylor Swift born 1989
  98. Charles III born 1948
  99. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  100. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  101. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  102. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  103. Kim Jong Un born 1984
  104. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  105. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  106. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  107. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  108. Eminem born 1972
  109. Beyoncé born 1981
  110. Selena Gomez born 1992
  111. Narendra Modi born 1950
  112. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  113. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  114. Rafael Correa born 1963
  115. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  116. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  117. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  118. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  119. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  120. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  121. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  122. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  123. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  124. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  125. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  126. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  127. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  128. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  129. Mark Zuckerberg born 1984
  130. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  131. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  132. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  133. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  134. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  135. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  136. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  137. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  138. Shinzo Abe 1954 – 2022
  139. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  140. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  141. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  142. Tim Berners-Lee born 1955
  143. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  144. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  145. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  146. Jackie Chan born 1954
  147. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  148. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  149. Robin Williams 1951 – 2014
  150. Guillermo Lasso born 1955