Who Was Alive

John XXIII

Priest, bishop, cardinal, pope

Born 25 November 1881 · died 3 June 1963, aged 81

Who was alive at the same time as John XXIII?

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Charles Darwin
  3. Karl Marx
  4. Leo Tolstoy
  5. Friedrich Nietzsche
  6. Vincent van Gogh
  7. Mahatma Gandhi
  8. Vladimir Lenin
  9. Winston Churchill
  10. Joseph Stalin
  11. Albert Einstein
  12. Pablo Picasso
  13. John XXIII
  14. Charlie Chaplin
  15. Adolf Hitler
  16. Ronald Reagan
  17. Nelson Mandela
  18. Elizabeth II
  19. Joe Biden
  20. Donald Trump
  21. George W. Bush
  22. Vladimir Putin
  23. Michael Jackson
  24. Barack Obama
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When John XXIII was born, Albert Einstein was 2, Karl Marx was 63, Vladimir Lenin was 11, Mahatma Gandhi was 12 and Leo Tolstoy was 53.

When John XXIII died, Barack Obama was 1, Donald Trump was 16, Michael Jackson was 4, Vladimir Putin was 10 and Ronald Reagan was 52.

Born during John XXIII’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela and George W. Bush.

Not quite contemporaries: Fyodor Dostoyevsky died months before John XXIII was born, Charles Dickens died 11 years before John XXIII was born, Hans Christian Andersen died 6 years before John XXIII was born and Jimmy Wales was born 3 years after John XXIII died.

Compare

All 1,140 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. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  8. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  9. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  10. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  11. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  12. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  13. George W. Bush born 1946
  14. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  15. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  16. Joe Biden born 1942
  17. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  18. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  19. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  20. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  21. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  22. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  23. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  24. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  25. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  26. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  27. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  28. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  29. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  30. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  31. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  32. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  33. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  34. Bill Gates born 1955
  35. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  36. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  37. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  38. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  39. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  40. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  41. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  42. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  43. Bill Clinton born 1946
  44. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  45. Angela Merkel born 1954
  46. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  47. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  48. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  49. François Hollande born 1954
  50. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  51. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  52. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  53. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  54. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  55. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  56. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  57. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  58. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  59. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  60. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  61. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  62. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  63. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  64. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  65. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  66. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  67. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  68. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  69. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  70. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  71. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  72. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  73. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  74. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  75. Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  76. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  77. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  78. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  79. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  80. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  81. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  82. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  83. Madonna born 1958
  84. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  85. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  86. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  87. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  88. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  89. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  90. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  91. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  92. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  93. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  94. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  95. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  96. Xi Jinping born 1953
  97. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  98. Naruhito born 1960
  99. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  100. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  101. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  102. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  103. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  104. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  105. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  106. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  107. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  108. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  109. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  110. Bob Dylan born 1941
  111. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  112. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  113. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  114. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  115. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  116. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  117. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  118. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  119. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  120. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  121. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  122. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  123. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  124. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  125. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  126. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  127. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  128. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  129. Charles III born 1948
  130. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  131. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  132. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  133. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  134. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  135. Leo XIV born 1955
  136. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  137. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  138. Narendra Modi born 1950
  139. Rafael Correa born 1963
  140. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  141. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  142. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  143. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  144. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  145. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  146. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  147. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  148. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  149. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  150. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006

The 150 best known are listed.