Who Was Alive
Ted Bundy
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Ted Bundy

American serial killer

Born 24 November 1946 · died 24 January 1989, aged 42
Also known as Theodore Robert Cowell, Teddy, Theodore Robert Bundy

Who was alive at the same time as Ted Bundy?

  1. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  2. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  3. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  4. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  5. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  6. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  7. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  8. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  9. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  10. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  11. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  12. Marilyn Monroe, 1926 – 1962
  13. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968
  14. Pope Francis, 1936 – 2025
  15. Joe Biden, born 1942
  16. Donald Trump, born 1946
  17. George W. Bush, born 1946
  18. Ted Bundy, 1946 – 1989
  19. Vladimir Putin, born 1952
  20. Bill Gates, born 1955
  21. Michael Jackson, 1958 – 2009
  22. Barack Obama, born 1961
  23. Jimmy Wales, born 1966
  24. Shakira, born 1977

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When Ted Bundy was born, Donald Trump was under a year old, Albert Einstein was 67, Ronald Reagan was 35, Nelson Mandela was 28 and Mahatma Gandhi was 77.

When Ted Bundy died, Barack Obama was 27, Donald Trump was 42, Michael Jackson was 30, Vladimir Putin was 36 and Ronald Reagan was 77.

Born during Ted Bundy’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Bill Gates, Jimmy Wales, Shakira, Steve Jobs and Lionel Messi.

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler died about a year before Ted Bundy was born, Sigmund Freud died about 7 years before Ted Bundy was born, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk died about 8 years before Ted Bundy was born and Marie Curie died about 12 years before Ted Bundy was born.

What happened in Ted Bundy’s lifetime

Where Ted Bundy’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

3,865 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Ted Bundy. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1968.

  1. Barack Obama born 1961
  2. Donald Trump born 1946
  3. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  4. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  5. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  6. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  7. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  8. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  9. George W. Bush born 1946
  10. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  11. Joe Biden born 1942
  12. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  13. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  14. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  15. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  16. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  17. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  18. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  19. Bill Gates born 1955
  20. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  21. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  22. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  23. Shakira born 1977
  24. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  25. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  26. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  27. Lionel Messi born 1987
  28. Bill Clinton born 1946
  29. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  30. Basshunter born 1984
  31. Angela Merkel born 1954
  32. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  33. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  34. François Hollande born 1954
  35. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  36. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  37. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  38. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  39. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  40. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  41. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  42. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  43. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  44. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  45. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  46. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  47. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  48. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  49. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  50. Elon Musk born 1971
  51. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  52. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  53. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  54. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  55. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  56. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  57. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  58. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  59. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  60. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  61. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  62. Lady Gaga born 1986
  63. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  64. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  65. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  66. Madonna born 1958
  67. Kamala Harris born 1964
  68. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  69. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  70. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  71. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  72. Xi Jinping born 1953
  73. Naruhito born 1960
  74. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  75. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  76. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  77. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  78. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  79. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  80. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  81. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  82. Bob Dylan born 1941
  83. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  84. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  85. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  86. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  87. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  88. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  89. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  90. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  91. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  92. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  93. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  94. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  95. Charles III born 1948
  96. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  97. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  98. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  99. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  100. Kim Jong Un born 1984
  101. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  102. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  103. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  104. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  105. Eminem born 1972
  106. Beyoncé born 1981
  107. Narendra Modi born 1950
  108. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  109. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  110. Rafael Correa born 1963
  111. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  112. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  113. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  114. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  115. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  116. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  117. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  118. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  119. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  120. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  121. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  122. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  123. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  124. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  125. Mark Zuckerberg born 1984
  126. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  127. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  128. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  129. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  130. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  131. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  132. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  133. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  134. Shinzo Abe 1954 – 2022
  135. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  136. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  137. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  138. Tim Berners-Lee born 1955
  139. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  140. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  141. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  142. Jackie Chan born 1954
  143. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  144. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  145. Robin Williams 1951 – 2014
  146. Guillermo Lasso born 1955
  147. Celine Dion born 1968
  148. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  149. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  150. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019