Who Was Alive
Osamu Tezuka
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Osamu Tezuka

Japanese animator

Born 3 November 1928 · died 9 February 1989, aged 60
Also known as Tezuka Osamu

Who was alive at the same time as Osamu Tezuka?

  1. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  2. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  3. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  4. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  5. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  6. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  7. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  8. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  9. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  10. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  11. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  12. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  13. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  14. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  15. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  16. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  17. Osamu Tezuka, 1928 – 1989
  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 Osamu Tezuka was born, Adolf Hitler was 39, Albert Einstein was 49, Ronald Reagan was 17, Nelson Mandela was 10 and Mahatma Gandhi was 59.

When Osamu Tezuka died, Barack Obama was 27, Donald Trump was 42, Michael Jackson was 30, Vladimir Putin was 36 and Ronald Reagan was 78.

Born during Osamu Tezuka’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 about 4 years before Osamu Tezuka was born, Franz Kafka died about 4 years before Osamu Tezuka was born, Corbin Bleu was born months after Osamu Tezuka died and Sarah Bernhardt died about 5 years before Osamu Tezuka was born.

What happened in Osamu Tezuka’s lifetime

Where Osamu Tezuka’s contemporaries were born

Osamu Tezuka is labelled; the others are the best-known people we track who lived at the same time. Each dot is a birthplace from Wikidata (79 of 81 placed); tap one to open that person.
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The 150 best-known contemporaries

4,130 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Osamu Tezuka. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1959.

  1. Barack Obama born 1961
  2. Donald Trump born 1946
  3. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  4. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  5. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  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. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  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 D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  26. Bill Gates born 1955
  27. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  28. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  29. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  30. Shakira born 1977
  31. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  32. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  33. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  34. Lionel Messi born 1987
  35. Bill Clinton born 1946
  36. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  37. Basshunter born 1984
  38. Angela Merkel born 1954
  39. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  40. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  41. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  42. François Hollande born 1954
  43. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  44. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  45. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  46. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  47. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  48. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  49. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  50. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  51. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  52. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  53. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  54. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  55. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  56. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  57. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  58. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  59. Elon Musk born 1971
  60. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  61. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  62. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  63. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  64. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  65. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  66. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  67. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  68. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  69. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  70. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  71. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  72. Lady Gaga born 1986
  73. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  74. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  75. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  76. Madonna born 1958
  77. Kamala Harris born 1964
  78. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  79. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  80. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  81. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  82. Xi Jinping born 1953
  83. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  84. Naruhito born 1960
  85. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  86. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  87. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  88. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  89. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  90. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  91. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  92. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  93. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  94. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  95. Bob Dylan born 1941
  96. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  97. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  98. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  99. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  100. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  101. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  102. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  103. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  104. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  105. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  106. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  107. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  108. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  109. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  110. Charles III born 1948
  111. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  112. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  113. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  114. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  115. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  116. Kim Jong Un born 1984
  117. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  118. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  119. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  120. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  121. Eminem born 1972
  122. Beyoncé born 1981
  123. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  124. Narendra Modi born 1950
  125. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  126. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  127. Rafael Correa born 1963
  128. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  129. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  130. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  131. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  132. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  133. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  134. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  135. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  136. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  137. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  138. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  139. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  140. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  141. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  142. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  143. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  144. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  145. Mark Zuckerberg born 1984
  146. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  147. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  148. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  149. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  150. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973