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Melina Mercouri
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Melina Mercouri

Greek actor and singer

Born 18 October 1920 · died 6 March 1994, aged 73
Also known as Maria Amalia Merkouri

Who was alive at the same time as Melina Mercouri?

  1. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  2. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  3. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  4. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  5. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  6. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  7. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  8. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  9. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  10. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  11. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  12. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  13. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  14. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  15. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  16. Melina Mercouri, 1920 – 1994
  17. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  18. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968
  19. Joe Biden, born 1942
  20. Donald Trump, born 1946
  21. George W. Bush, born 1946
  22. Vladimir Putin, born 1952
  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 Melina Mercouri was born, Adolf Hitler was 31, Albert Einstein was 41, Ronald Reagan was 9, Nelson Mandela was 2 and Vladimir Lenin was 50.

When Melina Mercouri died, Barack Obama was 32, Donald Trump was 47, Michael Jackson was 35, Vladimir Putin was 41 and Ronald Reagan was 83.

Born during Melina Mercouri’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Elizabeth II and Martin Luther King Jr..

Not quite contemporaries: Leo Tolstoy died about 10 years before Melina Mercouri was born, Mark Twain died about 10 years before Melina Mercouri was born, Theodore Roosevelt died about a year before Melina Mercouri was born and Rosa Luxemburg died about a year before Melina Mercouri was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

4,424 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Melina Mercouri. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1957.

  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. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  10. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  11. George W. Bush born 1946
  12. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  13. Joe Biden born 1942
  14. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  15. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  16. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  17. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  18. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  19. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  21. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  22. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  23. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  24. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  25. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  26. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  27. Bill Gates born 1955
  28. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  29. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  30. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  31. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  32. Shakira born 1977
  33. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  34. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  35. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  36. Lionel Messi born 1987
  37. Corbin Bleu born 1989
  38. Bill Clinton born 1946
  39. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  40. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  41. Basshunter born 1984
  42. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  43. Angela Merkel born 1954
  44. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  45. François Hollande born 1954
  46. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  47. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  48. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  49. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  50. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  51. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  52. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  53. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  54. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  55. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  56. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  57. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  58. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  59. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  60. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  61. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  62. Elon Musk born 1971
  63. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  64. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  65. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  66. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  67. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  68. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  69. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  70. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  71. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  72. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  73. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  74. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  75. Lady Gaga born 1986
  76. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  77. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  78. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  79. Madonna born 1958
  80. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  81. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  82. Kamala Harris born 1964
  83. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  84. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  85. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  86. Xi Jinping born 1953
  87. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  88. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  89. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  90. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  91. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  92. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  93. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  94. Naruhito born 1960
  95. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  96. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  97. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  98. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  99. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  100. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  101. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  102. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  103. Bob Dylan born 1941
  104. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  105. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  106. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  107. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  108. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  109. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  110. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  111. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  112. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  113. Justin Bieber born 1994
  114. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  115. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  116. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  117. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  118. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  119. Taylor Swift born 1989
  120. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  121. Charles III born 1948
  122. Kim Jong Un born 1984
  123. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  124. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  125. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  126. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  127. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  128. Beyoncé born 1981
  129. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  130. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  131. Eminem born 1972
  132. Selena Gomez born 1992
  133. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  134. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  135. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  136. Narendra Modi born 1950
  137. Rafael Correa born 1963
  138. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  139. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  140. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  141. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  142. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  143. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  144. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  145. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  146. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  147. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  148. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  149. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  150. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935