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P. Ramlee
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P. Ramlee

Malaysian singer and actor

Born 22 March 1929 · died 29 May 1973, aged 44
Also known as Ramlee Puteh, Ramlee bin Puteh, P.Ramlee

Who was alive at the same time as P. Ramlee?

  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. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968
  18. P. Ramlee, 1929 – 1973
  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 P. Ramlee was born, Adolf Hitler was 39, Albert Einstein was 50, Ronald Reagan was 18, Nelson Mandela was 10 and Mahatma Gandhi was 59.

When P. Ramlee died, Barack Obama was 11, Donald Trump was 26, Michael Jackson was 14, Vladimir Putin was 20 and Ronald Reagan was 62.

Born during P. Ramlee’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Bill Gates and Jimmy Wales.

Not quite contemporaries: Vladimir Lenin died about 5 years before P. Ramlee was born, Franz Kafka died about 5 years before P. Ramlee was born, Shakira was born about 4 years after P. Ramlee died and Lionel Messi was born about 14 years after P. Ramlee died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

3,503 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as P. Ramlee. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1951.

  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. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  31. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  32. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  33. Bill Clinton born 1946
  34. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  35. Angela Merkel born 1954
  36. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  37. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  38. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  39. François Hollande born 1954
  40. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  41. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  42. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  43. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  44. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  45. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  46. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  47. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  48. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  49. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  50. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  51. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  52. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  53. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  54. Elon Musk born 1971
  55. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  56. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  57. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  58. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  59. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  60. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  61. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  62. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  63. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  64. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  65. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  66. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  67. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  68. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  69. Madonna born 1958
  70. Kamala Harris born 1964
  71. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  72. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  73. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  74. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  75. Xi Jinping born 1953
  76. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  77. Naruhito born 1960
  78. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  79. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  80. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  81. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  82. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  83. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  84. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  85. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  86. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  87. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  88. Bob Dylan born 1941
  89. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  90. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  91. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  92. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  93. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  94. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  95. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  96. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  97. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  98. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  99. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  100. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  101. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  102. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  103. Charles III born 1948
  104. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  105. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  106. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  107. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  108. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  109. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  110. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  111. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  112. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  113. Eminem born 1972
  114. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  115. Narendra Modi born 1950
  116. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  117. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  118. Rafael Correa born 1963
  119. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  120. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  121. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  122. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  123. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  124. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  125. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  126. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  127. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  128. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  129. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  130. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  131. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  132. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  133. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  134. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  135. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  136. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  137. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  138. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  139. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  140. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  141. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  142. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  143. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  144. Shinzo Abe 1954 – 2022
  145. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  146. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  147. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  148. Tim Berners-Lee born 1955
  149. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  150. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993