Who Was Alive
Sergei Korolev
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Sergei Korolev

Soviet engineer

Born 30 December 1906 (Julian calendar) · died 14 January 1966, aged 59
Also known as S. P. Korolyov, Sergei Pavlovich Korolyov, Sergei Koroliov

Who was alive at the same time as Sergei Korolev?

  1. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  2. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  3. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  4. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  5. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  6. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  7. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  8. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  9. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  10. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  11. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  12. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  13. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  14. Sergei Korolev, 1906 – 1966
  15. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  16. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  17. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  18. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  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 Sergei Korolev was born, Adolf Hitler was 17, Albert Einstein was 27, Vladimir Lenin was 36, Mahatma Gandhi was 37 and Leo Tolstoy was 78.

When Sergei Korolev died, Barack Obama was 4, Donald Trump was 19, Michael Jackson was 7, Vladimir Putin was 13 and Ronald Reagan was 54.

Born during Sergei Korolev’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush and Joe Biden.

Not quite contemporaries: Friedrich Nietzsche died about 7 years before Sergei Korolev was born, Anton Chekhov died about 3 years before Sergei Korolev was born, Jimmy Wales was born months after Sergei Korolev died and Shakira was born about 11 years after Sergei Korolev died.

What happened in Sergei Korolev’s lifetime

Where Sergei Korolev’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

3,422 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Sergei Korolev. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1937.

  1. Barack Obama born 1961
  2. Donald Trump born 1946
  3. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  4. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  5. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  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. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  12. George W. Bush born 1946
  13. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  14. Joe Biden born 1942
  15. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  16. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  17. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  18. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  19. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  21. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  22. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  23. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  24. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  25. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  26. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  27. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  28. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  29. Bill Gates born 1955
  30. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  31. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  32. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  33. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  34. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  35. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  36. Bill Clinton born 1946
  37. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  38. Angela Merkel born 1954
  39. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  40. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  41. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  42. François Hollande born 1954
  43. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  44. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  45. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  46. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  47. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  48. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  49. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  50. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  51. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  52. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  53. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  54. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  55. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  56. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  57. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  58. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  59. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  60. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  61. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  62. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  63. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  64. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  65. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  66. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  67. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  68. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  69. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  70. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  71. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  72. Madonna born 1958
  73. Kamala Harris born 1964
  74. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  75. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  76. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  77. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  78. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  79. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  80. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  81. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  82. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  83. Xi Jinping born 1953
  84. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  85. Naruhito born 1960
  86. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  87. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  88. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  89. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  90. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  91. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  92. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  93. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  94. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  95. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  96. Bob Dylan born 1941
  97. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  98. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  99. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  100. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  101. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  102. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  103. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  104. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  105. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  106. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  107. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  108. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  109. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  110. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  111. Charles III born 1948
  112. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  113. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  114. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  115. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  116. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  117. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  118. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  119. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  120. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  121. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  122. Narendra Modi born 1950
  123. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  124. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  125. Rafael Correa born 1963
  126. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  127. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  128. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  129. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  130. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  131. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  132. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  133. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  134. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  135. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  136. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  137. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  138. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  139. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  140. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  141. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  142. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  143. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  144. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  145. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  146. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  147. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  148. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  149. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  150. Shinzo Abe 1954 – 2022