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Sid Vicious
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Sid Vicious

British musician

Born 10 May 1957 · died 2 February 1979, aged 21
Also known as John Simon Ritchie, Simon Beverley, John Beverley

Who was alive at the same time as Sid Vicious?

  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. Sid Vicious, 1957 – 1979
  21. Michael Jackson, 1958 – 2009
  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 Sid Vicious was born, Donald Trump was 10, Vladimir Putin was 4, Ronald Reagan was 46, Nelson Mandela was 38 and George W. Bush was 10.

When Sid Vicious died, Barack Obama was 17, Donald Trump was 32, Michael Jackson was 20, Vladimir Putin was 26 and Ronald Reagan was 67.

Born during Sid Vicious’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Michael Jackson, Jimmy Wales, Shakira, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Elon Musk, Emmanuel Macron and Madonna.

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler died about 12 years before Sid Vicious was born, Albert Einstein died about 2 years before Sid Vicious was born, Mahatma Gandhi died about 9 years before Sid Vicious was born and Joseph Stalin died about 4 years before Sid Vicious was born.

What happened in Sid Vicious’s lifetime

Where Sid Vicious’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

3,307 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Sid Vicious. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1968.

  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. Bill Clinton born 1946
  25. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  26. Angela Merkel born 1954
  27. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  28. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  29. François Hollande born 1954
  30. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  31. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  32. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  33. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  34. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  35. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  36. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  37. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  38. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  39. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  40. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  41. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  42. Elon Musk born 1971
  43. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  44. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  45. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  46. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  47. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  48. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  49. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  50. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  51. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  52. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  53. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  54. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  55. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  56. Madonna born 1958
  57. Kamala Harris born 1964
  58. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  59. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  60. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  61. Xi Jinping born 1953
  62. Naruhito born 1960
  63. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  64. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  65. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  66. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  67. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  68. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  69. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  70. Bob Dylan born 1941
  71. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  72. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  73. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  74. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  75. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  76. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  77. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  78. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  79. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  80. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  81. Charles III born 1948
  82. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  83. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  84. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  85. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  86. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  87. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  88. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  89. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  90. Eminem born 1972
  91. Narendra Modi born 1950
  92. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  93. Rafael Correa born 1963
  94. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  95. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  96. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  97. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  98. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  99. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  100. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  101. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  102. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  103. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  104. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  105. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  106. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  107. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  108. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  109. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  110. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  111. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  112. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  113. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  114. Shinzo Abe 1954 – 2022
  115. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  116. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  117. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  118. Tim Berners-Lee born 1955
  119. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  120. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  121. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  122. Jackie Chan born 1954
  123. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  124. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  125. Robin Williams 1951 – 2014
  126. Guillermo Lasso born 1955
  127. Celine Dion born 1968
  128. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  129. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  130. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  131. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  132. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  133. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  134. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  135. Alexander Lukashenko born 1954
  136. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  137. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  138. Woody Allen born 1935
  139. Tony Blair born 1953
  140. Yasser Arafat 1929 – 2004
  141. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  142. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  143. Judy Garland 1922 – 1969
  144. Ban Ki-moon born 1944
  145. Arnold Schwarzenegger born 1947
  146. David Cameron born 1966
  147. Linus Torvalds born 1969
  148. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  149. Brigitte Bardot 1934 – 2025
  150. Hebe Camargo 1929 – 2012