Who Was Alive
Peter Medawar
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Peter Medawar

English physician

Born 28 February 1915 · died 2 October 1987, aged 72
Also known as Sir Peter Brian Medawar, P.B. Medawar, P. B. Medawar

Who was alive at the same time as Peter Medawar?

  1. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  2. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  3. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  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. Peter Medawar, 1915 – 1987
  15. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  16. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  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 Peter Medawar was born, Adolf Hitler was 25, Albert Einstein was 35, Ronald Reagan was 4, Vladimir Lenin was 44 and Mahatma Gandhi was 45.

When Peter Medawar died, Barack Obama was 26, Donald Trump was 41, Michael Jackson was 29, Vladimir Putin was 34 and Ronald Reagan was 76.

Born during Peter Medawar’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush, Joe Biden and Elizabeth II.

Not quite contemporaries: Leo Tolstoy died about 5 years before Peter Medawar was born, Friedrich Nietzsche died about 15 years before Peter Medawar was born, Mark Twain died about 5 years before Peter Medawar was born and Anton Chekhov died about 11 years before Peter Medawar was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

4,241 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Peter Medawar. 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. 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. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  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 D. 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. Lionel Messi born 1987
  37. Bill Clinton born 1946
  38. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  39. Basshunter born 1984
  40. Angela Merkel born 1954
  41. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  42. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  43. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  44. François Hollande born 1954
  45. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  46. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  47. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  48. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  49. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  50. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  51. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  52. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  53. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  54. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  55. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  56. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  57. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  58. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  59. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  60. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  61. Elon Musk born 1971
  62. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  63. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  64. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  65. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  66. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  67. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  68. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  69. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  70. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  71. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  72. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  73. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  74. Lady Gaga born 1986
  75. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  76. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  77. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  78. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  79. Madonna born 1958
  80. Kamala Harris born 1964
  81. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  82. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  83. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  84. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  85. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  86. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  87. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  88. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  89. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  90. Xi Jinping born 1953
  91. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  92. Naruhito born 1960
  93. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  94. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  95. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  96. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  97. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  98. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  99. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  100. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  101. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  102. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  103. Bob Dylan born 1941
  104. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  105. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  106. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  107. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  108. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  109. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  110. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  111. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  112. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  113. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  114. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  115. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  116. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  117. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  118. Charles III born 1948
  119. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  120. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  121. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  122. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  123. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  124. Kim Jong Un born 1984
  125. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  126. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  127. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  128. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  129. Eminem born 1972
  130. Beyoncé born 1981
  131. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  132. Narendra Modi born 1950
  133. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  134. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  135. Rafael Correa born 1963
  136. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  137. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  138. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  139. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  140. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  141. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  142. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  143. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  144. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  145. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  146. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  147. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  148. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  149. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  150. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968