Who Was Alive
Sade
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Sade

British singer

Born 16 January 1959 · living, 67 as of October 2026
Also known as Sade Adu, Helen Folasade Adu

Who was alive at the same time as Sade?

  1. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  2. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  3. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  4. Mao Zedong, 1893 – 1976
  5. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  6. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  7. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  8. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  9. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  10. Marilyn Monroe, 1926 – 1962
  11. Che Guevara, 1928 – 1967
  12. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968
  13. Pope Francis, 1936 – 2025
  14. Joe Biden, born 1942
  15. Donald Trump, born 1946
  16. George W. Bush, born 1946
  17. Vladimir Putin, born 1952
  18. Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011
  19. Bill Gates, born 1955
  20. Michael Jackson, 1958 – 2009
  21. Sade, born 1959
  22. Barack Obama, born 1961
  23. Jimmy Wales, born 1966
  24. Shakira, born 1977

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 Sade was born, Donald Trump was 12, Michael Jackson was under a year old, Vladimir Putin was 6, Ronald Reagan was 47 and Nelson Mandela was 40.

Born during Sade’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Jimmy Wales, Shakira, Lionel Messi, Corbin Bleu, Basshunter, Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Cristiano Ronaldo.

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler died about 14 years before Sade was born, Albert Einstein died about 4 years before Sade was born, Mahatma Gandhi died about 11 years before Sade was born and Joseph Stalin died about 6 years before Sade was born.

What happened in Sade’s lifetime

Where Sade’s contemporaries were born

Sade 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.
Birthplaces as a list

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

3,974 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Sade. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1993.

  1. Barack Obama born 1961
  2. Donald Trump born 1946
  3. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  4. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  5. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  6. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  7. George W. Bush born 1946
  8. Joe Biden born 1942
  9. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  10. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  11. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  12. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  13. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  14. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  15. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  16. Bill Gates born 1955
  17. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  18. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  19. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  20. Shakira born 1977
  21. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  22. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  23. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  24. Lionel Messi born 1987
  25. Corbin Bleu born 1989
  26. Bill Clinton born 1946
  27. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  28. Basshunter born 1984
  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. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  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. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  46. Elon Musk born 1971
  47. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  48. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  49. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  50. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  51. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  52. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  53. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  54. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  55. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  56. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  57. Lady Gaga born 1986
  58. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  59. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  60. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  61. Madonna born 1958
  62. Kamala Harris born 1964
  63. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  64. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  65. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  66. Xi Jinping born 1953
  67. Naruhito born 1960
  68. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  69. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  70. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  71. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  72. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  73. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  74. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  75. Bob Dylan born 1941
  76. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  77. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  78. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  79. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  80. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  81. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  82. Justin Bieber born 1994
  83. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  84. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  85. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  86. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  87. Taylor Swift born 1989
  88. Charles III born 1948
  89. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  90. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  91. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  92. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  93. Kim Jong Un born 1984
  94. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  95. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  96. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  97. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  98. Eminem born 1972
  99. Beyoncé born 1981
  100. Selena Gomez born 1992
  101. Narendra Modi born 1950
  102. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  103. Rafael Correa born 1963
  104. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  105. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  106. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  107. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  108. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  109. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  110. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  111. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  112. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  113. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  114. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  115. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  116. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  117. Mark Zuckerberg born 1984
  118. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  119. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  120. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  121. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  122. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  123. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  124. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  125. Shinzo Abe 1954 – 2022
  126. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  127. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  128. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  129. Tim Berners-Lee born 1955
  130. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  131. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  132. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  133. Jackie Chan born 1954
  134. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  135. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  136. Robin Williams 1951 – 2014
  137. Guillermo Lasso born 1955
  138. Celine Dion born 1968
  139. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  140. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  141. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  142. Roger Federer born 1981
  143. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  144. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  145. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  146. Lana Del Rey born 1985
  147. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  148. Alexander Lukashenko born 1954
  149. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  150. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988