Who Was Alive
Rocky Marciano
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Rocky Marciano

American boxer

Born 1 September 1923 · died 31 August 1969, aged 45
Also known as Rocco Marchegiano, Rocco Francis Marchegiano, Rocco Marciano

Who was alive at the same time as Rocky Marciano?

  1. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  2. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  3. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  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. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  15. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  16. Rocky Marciano, 1923 – 1969
  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 Rocky Marciano was born, Adolf Hitler was 34, Albert Einstein was 44, Ronald Reagan was 12, Nelson Mandela was 5 and Vladimir Lenin was 53.

When Rocky Marciano died, Barack Obama was 8, Donald Trump was 23, Michael Jackson was 11, Vladimir Putin was 16 and Ronald Reagan was 58.

Born during Rocky Marciano’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Elizabeth II and Martin Luther King Jr..

Not quite contemporaries: Leo Tolstoy died about 13 years before Rocky Marciano was born, Mark Twain died about 13 years before Rocky Marciano was born, Shakira was born about 8 years after Rocky Marciano died and Volodymyr Zelenskyy was born about 9 years after Rocky Marciano died.

What happened in Rocky Marciano’s lifetime

Where Rocky Marciano’s contemporaries were born

Rocky Marciano is labelled; the others are the best-known people we track who lived at the same time. Each dot is a birthplace from Wikidata (79 of 81 placed); tap one to open that person.
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The 150 best-known contemporaries

3,442 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Rocky Marciano. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1946.

  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. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  9. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  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. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  23. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  24. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  25. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  26. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  27. Bill Gates born 1955
  28. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  29. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  30. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  31. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  32. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  33. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  34. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  35. Bill Clinton born 1946
  36. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  37. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  38. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  39. Angela Merkel born 1954
  40. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  41. François Hollande born 1954
  42. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  43. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  44. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  45. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  46. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  47. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  48. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  49. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  50. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  51. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  52. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  53. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  54. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  55. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  56. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  57. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  58. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  59. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  60. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  61. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  62. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  63. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  64. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  65. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  66. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  67. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  68. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  69. Madonna born 1958
  70. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  71. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  72. Kamala Harris born 1964
  73. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  74. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  75. Xi Jinping born 1953
  76. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  77. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  78. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  79. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  80. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  81. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  82. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  83. Naruhito born 1960
  84. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  85. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  86. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  87. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  88. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  89. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  90. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  91. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  92. Bob Dylan born 1941
  93. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  94. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  95. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  96. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  97. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  98. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  99. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  100. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  101. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  102. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  103. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  104. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  105. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  106. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  107. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  108. Charles III born 1948
  109. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  110. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  111. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  112. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  113. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  114. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  115. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  116. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  117. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  118. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  119. Narendra Modi born 1950
  120. Rafael Correa born 1963
  121. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  122. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  123. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  124. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  125. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  126. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  127. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  128. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  129. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  130. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  131. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  132. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  133. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  134. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  135. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  136. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  137. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  138. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  139. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  140. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  141. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  142. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  143. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  144. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  145. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  146. Shinzo Abe 1954 – 2022
  147. Tim Berners-Lee born 1955
  148. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  149. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  150. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992