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Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder

West German playwright and actor

Born 31 May 1945 · died 10 June 1982, aged 37
Also known as R. W. Fassbinder, Rajner Verner Fasbinder, Raïner Berner Phasmpinter

Who was alive at the same time as Rainer Werner Fassbinder?

  1. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  2. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  3. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  4. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  5. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  6. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  7. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  8. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  9. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  10. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  11. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  12. Marilyn Monroe, 1926 – 1962
  13. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968
  14. Pope Francis, 1936 – 2025
  15. Joe Biden, born 1942
  16. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1945 – 1982
  17. Donald Trump, born 1946
  18. George W. Bush, born 1946
  19. Vladimir Putin, born 1952
  20. Bill Gates, born 1955
  21. Michael Jackson, 1958 – 2009
  22. Barack Obama, born 1961
  23. Jimmy Wales, born 1966
  24. Shakira, born 1977

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When Rainer Werner Fassbinder was born, Albert Einstein was 66, Ronald Reagan was 34, Nelson Mandela was 26, Mahatma Gandhi was 75 and Joseph Stalin was 66.

When Rainer Werner Fassbinder died, Barack Obama was 20, Donald Trump was 35, Michael Jackson was 23, Vladimir Putin was 29 and Ronald Reagan was 71.

Born during Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, George W. Bush, Bill Gates, Jimmy Wales and Shakira.

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler died months before Rainer Werner Fassbinder was born, Thomas Edison died about 14 years before Rainer Werner Fassbinder was born, Sigmund Freud died about 6 years before Rainer Werner Fassbinder was born and Mustafa Kemal Atatürk died about 7 years before Rainer Werner Fassbinder was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

3,622 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Rainer Werner Fassbinder. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1964.

  1. Barack Obama born 1961
  2. Donald Trump born 1946
  3. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  4. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  5. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  6. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  7. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  8. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  9. George W. Bush born 1946
  10. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  11. Joe Biden born 1942
  12. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  13. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  14. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  15. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  16. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  17. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  18. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  19. Bill Gates born 1955
  20. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  21. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  22. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  23. Shakira born 1977
  24. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  25. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  26. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  27. Bill Clinton born 1946
  28. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  29. Angela Merkel born 1954
  30. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  31. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  32. François Hollande born 1954
  33. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  34. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  35. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  36. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  37. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  38. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  39. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  40. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  41. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  42. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  43. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  44. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  45. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  46. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  47. Elon Musk born 1971
  48. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  49. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  50. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  51. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  52. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  53. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  54. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  55. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  56. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  57. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  58. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  59. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  60. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  61. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  62. Madonna born 1958
  63. Kamala Harris born 1964
  64. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  65. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  66. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  67. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  68. Xi Jinping born 1953
  69. Naruhito born 1960
  70. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  71. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  72. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  73. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  74. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  75. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  76. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  77. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  78. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  79. Bob Dylan born 1941
  80. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  81. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  82. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  83. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  84. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  85. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  86. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  87. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  88. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  89. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  90. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  91. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  92. Charles III born 1948
  93. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  94. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  95. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  96. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  97. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  98. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  99. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  100. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  101. Eminem born 1972
  102. Beyoncé born 1981
  103. Narendra Modi born 1950
  104. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  105. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  106. Rafael Correa born 1963
  107. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  108. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  109. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  110. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  111. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  112. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  113. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  114. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  115. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  116. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  117. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  118. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  119. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  120. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  121. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  122. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  123. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  124. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  125. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  126. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  127. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  128. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  129. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  130. Shinzo Abe 1954 – 2022
  131. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  132. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  133. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  134. Tim Berners-Lee born 1955
  135. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  136. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  137. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  138. Jackie Chan born 1954
  139. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  140. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  141. Robin Williams 1951 – 2014
  142. Guillermo Lasso born 1955
  143. Celine Dion born 1968
  144. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  145. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  146. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  147. Roger Federer born 1981
  148. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  149. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  150. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999