Who Was Alive

Richard Nixon

President of the United States from 1969 to 1974

Born 9 January 1913 · died 22 April 1994, aged 81

Who was alive at the same time as Richard Nixon?

  1. Thomas Edison
  2. Sigmund Freud
  3. Marie Curie
  4. Mahatma Gandhi
  5. Vladimir Lenin
  6. Winston Churchill
  7. Joseph Stalin
  8. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  9. Albert Einstein
  10. Pablo Picasso
  11. Charlie Chaplin
  12. Adolf Hitler
  13. Ronald Reagan
  14. Richard Nixon
  15. John F. Kennedy
  16. Nelson Mandela
  17. Elizabeth II
  18. Martin Luther King Jr.
  19. Joe Biden
  20. Donald Trump
  21. George W. Bush
  22. Vladimir Putin
  23. Michael Jackson
  24. Barack Obama
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When Richard Nixon was born, Adolf Hitler was 23, Albert Einstein was 33, Ronald Reagan was 1, Vladimir Lenin was 42 and Mahatma Gandhi was 43.

When Richard Nixon died, Barack Obama was 32, Donald Trump was 47, Michael Jackson was 35, Vladimir Putin was 41 and Ronald Reagan was 83.

Born during Richard Nixon’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 3 years before Richard Nixon was born, Friedrich Nietzsche died 13 years before Richard Nixon was born, Mark Twain died 3 years before Richard Nixon was born and Anton Chekhov died 9 years before Richard Nixon was born.

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All 1,340 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. 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. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  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 Delano 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. Corbin Bleu born 1989
  38. Bill Clinton born 1946
  39. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  40. Basshunter born 1984
  41. Angela Merkel born 1954
  42. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  43. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  44. François Hollande born 1954
  45. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  46. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  47. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  48. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  49. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  50. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  51. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  52. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  53. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  54. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  55. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  56. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  57. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  58. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  59. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  60. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  61. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  62. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  63. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  64. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  65. Elon Musk born 1971
  66. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  67. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  68. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  69. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  70. Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  71. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  72. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  73. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  74. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  75. Lady Gaga born 1986
  76. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  77. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  78. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  79. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  80. Madonna born 1958
  81. Kamala Harris born 1964
  82. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  83. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  84. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  85. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  86. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  87. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  88. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  89. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  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. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  96. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  97. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  98. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  99. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  100. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  101. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  102. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  103. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  104. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  105. Bob Dylan born 1941
  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. Justin Bieber born 1994
  115. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  116. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  117. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  118. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  119. Taylor Swift born 1989
  120. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  121. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  122. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  123. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  124. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  125. Charles III born 1948
  126. Kim Jong-un born 1984
  127. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  128. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  129. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  130. Eminem born 1972
  131. Beyoncé born 1981
  132. Selena Gomez born 1992
  133. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  134. Leo XIV born 1955
  135. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  136. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  137. Narendra Modi born 1950
  138. Rafael Correa born 1963
  139. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  140. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  141. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  142. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  143. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  144. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  145. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  146. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  147. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  148. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  149. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  150. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006

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