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Varg Vikernes
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Varg Vikernes

Norwegian singer

Born 11 February 1973 · living, 53 as of October 2026
Also known as Count Grishnackh, Greven, Varg Kvísling Larsson Víkarnes

Who was alive at the same time as Varg Vikernes?

  1. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  2. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  3. Mao Zedong, 1893 – 1976
  4. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  5. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  6. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  7. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  8. Pope Francis, 1936 – 2025
  9. Joe Biden, born 1942
  10. Donald Trump, born 1946
  11. George W. Bush, born 1946
  12. Bill Clinton, born 1946
  13. Vladimir Putin, born 1952
  14. Angela Merkel, born 1954
  15. Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011
  16. Bill Gates, born 1955
  17. Michael Jackson, 1958 – 2009
  18. Barack Obama, born 1961
  19. Jimmy Wales, born 1966
  20. Varg Vikernes, born 1973
  21. Shakira, born 1977
  22. Basshunter, born 1984
  23. Lionel Messi, born 1987
  24. Corbin Bleu, born 1989

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When Varg Vikernes was born, Barack Obama was 11, Donald Trump was 26, Michael Jackson was 14, Vladimir Putin was 20 and Ronald Reagan was 62.

Born during Varg Vikernes’s lifetime: Shakira, Lionel Messi, Corbin Bleu, Basshunter, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Cristiano Ronaldo, Emmanuel Macron and Lady Gaga.

Not quite contemporaries: Winston Churchill died about 8 years before Varg Vikernes was born, John F. Kennedy died about 10 years before Varg Vikernes was born, Martin Luther King Jr. died about 5 years before Varg Vikernes was born and Marilyn Monroe died about 11 years before Varg Vikernes was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

3,730 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Varg Vikernes. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 2000.

  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. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  11. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  12. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  13. Bill Gates born 1955
  14. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  15. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  16. Shakira born 1977
  17. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  18. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  19. Lionel Messi born 1987
  20. Corbin Bleu born 1989
  21. Bill Clinton born 1946
  22. Basshunter born 1984
  23. Angela Merkel born 1954
  24. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  25. François Hollande born 1954
  26. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  27. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  28. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  29. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  30. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  31. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  32. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  33. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  34. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  35. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  36. Elon Musk born 1971
  37. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  38. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  39. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  40. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  41. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  42. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  43. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  44. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  45. Lady Gaga born 1986
  46. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  47. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  48. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  49. Madonna born 1958
  50. Kamala Harris born 1964
  51. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  52. Xi Jinping born 1953
  53. Naruhito born 1960
  54. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  55. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  56. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  57. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  58. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  59. Bob Dylan born 1941
  60. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  61. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  62. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  63. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  64. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  65. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  66. Justin Bieber born 1994
  67. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  68. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  69. Taylor Swift born 1989
  70. Charles III born 1948
  71. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  72. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  73. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  74. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  75. Kim Jong Un born 1984
  76. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  77. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  78. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  79. Eminem born 1972
  80. Beyoncé born 1981
  81. Selena Gomez born 1992
  82. Narendra Modi born 1950
  83. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  84. Rafael Correa born 1963
  85. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  86. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  87. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  88. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  89. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  90. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  91. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  92. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  93. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  94. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  95. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  96. Mark Zuckerberg born 1984
  97. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  98. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  99. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  100. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  101. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  102. Shinzo Abe 1954 – 2022
  103. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  104. Tim Berners-Lee born 1955
  105. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  106. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  107. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  108. Jackie Chan born 1954
  109. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  110. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  111. Robin Williams 1951 – 2014
  112. Guillermo Lasso born 1955
  113. Celine Dion born 1968
  114. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  115. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  116. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  117. Roger Federer born 1981
  118. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  119. Lana Del Rey born 1985
  120. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  121. Alexander Lukashenko born 1954
  122. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  123. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  124. Woody Allen born 1935
  125. Neymar born 1992
  126. Tony Blair born 1953
  127. Rihanna born 1988
  128. Malala Yousafzai born 1997
  129. Scarlett Johansson born 1984
  130. Rafael Nadal born 1986
  131. Yasser Arafat 1929 – 2004
  132. Greta Thunberg born 2003
  133. Ban Ki-moon born 1944
  134. Arnold Schwarzenegger born 1947
  135. David Cameron born 1966
  136. Linus Torvalds born 1969
  137. Novak Djokovic born 1987
  138. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  139. Brigitte Bardot 1934 – 2025
  140. Hebe Camargo 1929 – 2012
  141. Umberto Eco 1932 – 2016
  142. Diana, Princess of Wales 1961 – 1997
  143. Boris Johnson born 1964
  144. Bashar al-Assad born 1965
  145. Audrey Hepburn 1929 – 1993
  146. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva born 1945
  147. Benazir Bhutto 1953 – 2007
  148. Jair Bolsonaro born 1955
  149. Paul McCartney born 1942
  150. Anggun born 1974