Mohammad Reza I of Iran

All 1,184 contemporaries we track

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. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
9. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
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. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
21. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
22. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
23. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
24. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
25. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
26. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
27. Bill Gates born 1955
28. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
29. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
30. Jimmy Wales born 1966
31. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
32. Shakira born 1977
33. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
34. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
35. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
36. Bill Clinton born 1946
37. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
38. Angela Merkel born 1954
39. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
40. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
41. François Hollande born 1954
42. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
43. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
44. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
45. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
46. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
47. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
48. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
49. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
50. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
51. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
52. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
53. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
54. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
55. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
56. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
57. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
58. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
59. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
60. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
61. Elon Musk born 1971
62. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
63. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
64. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
65. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
66. Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
67. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
68. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
69. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
70. Hillary Clinton born 1947
71. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
72. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
73. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
74. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
75. Madonna born 1958
76. Kamala Harris born 1964
77. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
78. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
79. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
80. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
81. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
82. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
83. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
84. Xi Jinping born 1953
85. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
86. Naruhito born 1960
87. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
88. Noam Chomsky born 1928
89. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
90. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
91. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
92. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
93. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
94. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
95. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
96. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
97. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
98. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
99. Bob Dylan born 1941
100. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
101. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
102. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
103. Pelé 1940 – 2022
104. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
105. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
106. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
107. J. K. Rowling born 1965
108. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
109. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
110. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
111. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
112. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
113. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
114. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
115. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
116. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
117. Charles III born 1948
118. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
119. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
120. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
121. Eminem born 1972
122. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
123. Leo XIV born 1955
124. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
125. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
126. Narendra Modi born 1950
127. Rafael Correa born 1963
128. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
129. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
130. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
131. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
132. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
133. Steven Spielberg born 1946
134. Michael Schumacher born 1969
135. Angelina Jolie born 1975
136. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
137. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
138. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
139. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
140. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
141. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
142. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
143. Tenzin Gyatso born 1935
144. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
145. Anna Netrebko born 1971
146. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
147. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
148. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
149. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
150. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955

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