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Yahya Sinwar
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Yahya Sinwar

Palestinian politician

Born 29 October 1962 · died 16 October 2024, aged 61
Also known as Yahia Sinwar, Sinwar Yahya, Yahyā as-Sinwār

Who was alive at the same time as Yahya Sinwar?

  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. Che Guevara, 1928 – 1967
  11. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968
  12. Pope Francis, 1936 – 2025
  13. Joe Biden, born 1942
  14. Donald Trump, born 1946
  15. George W. Bush, born 1946
  16. Vladimir Putin, born 1952
  17. Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011
  18. Bill Gates, born 1955
  19. Michael Jackson, 1958 – 2009
  20. Barack Obama, born 1961
  21. Yahya Sinwar, 1962 – 2024
  22. Jimmy Wales, born 1966
  23. Shakira, born 1977
  24. Lionel Messi, born 1987

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When Yahya Sinwar was born, Barack Obama was 1, Donald Trump was 16, Michael Jackson was 4, Vladimir Putin was 10 and Ronald Reagan was 51.

When Yahya Sinwar died, Barack Obama was 63, Donald Trump was 78, Vladimir Putin was 72, George W. Bush was 78 and Joe Biden was 81.

Born during Yahya Sinwar’s lifetime: Jimmy Wales, Shakira, Lionel Messi, Corbin Bleu, Basshunter, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Cristiano Ronaldo and Elon Musk.

Not quite contemporaries: Albert Einstein died about 7 years before Yahya Sinwar was born, Mahatma Gandhi died about 14 years before Yahya Sinwar was born, Joseph Stalin died about 9 years before Yahya Sinwar was born and Marilyn Monroe died months before Yahya Sinwar was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

3,927 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Yahya Sinwar. 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. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  18. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  19. Shakira born 1977
  20. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  21. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  22. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  23. Lionel Messi born 1987
  24. Corbin Bleu born 1989
  25. Bill Clinton born 1946
  26. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  27. Basshunter born 1984
  28. Angela Merkel born 1954
  29. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  30. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  31. François Hollande born 1954
  32. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  33. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  34. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  35. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  36. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  37. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  38. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  39. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  40. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  41. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  42. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  43. Elon Musk born 1971
  44. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  45. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  46. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  47. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  48. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  49. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  50. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  51. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  52. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  53. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  54. Lady Gaga born 1986
  55. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  56. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  57. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  58. Madonna born 1958
  59. Kamala Harris born 1964
  60. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  61. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  62. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  63. Xi Jinping born 1953
  64. Naruhito born 1960
  65. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  66. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  67. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  68. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  69. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  70. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  71. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  72. Bob Dylan born 1941
  73. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  74. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  75. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  76. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  77. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  78. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  79. Justin Bieber born 1994
  80. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  81. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  82. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  83. Taylor Swift born 1989
  84. Charles III born 1948
  85. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  86. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  87. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  88. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  89. Kim Jong Un born 1984
  90. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  91. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  92. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  93. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  94. Eminem born 1972
  95. Beyoncé born 1981
  96. Selena Gomez born 1992
  97. Narendra Modi born 1950
  98. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  99. Rafael Correa born 1963
  100. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  101. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  102. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  103. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  104. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  105. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  106. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  107. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  108. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  109. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  110. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  111. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  112. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  113. Mark Zuckerberg born 1984
  114. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  115. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  116. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  117. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  118. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  119. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  120. Shinzo Abe 1954 – 2022
  121. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  122. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  123. Tim Berners-Lee born 1955
  124. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  125. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  126. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  127. Jackie Chan born 1954
  128. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  129. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  130. Robin Williams 1951 – 2014
  131. Guillermo Lasso born 1955
  132. Celine Dion born 1968
  133. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  134. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  135. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  136. Roger Federer born 1981
  137. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  138. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  139. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  140. Lana Del Rey born 1985
  141. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  142. Alexander Lukashenko born 1954
  143. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  144. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  145. Woody Allen born 1935
  146. Neymar born 1992
  147. Tony Blair born 1953
  148. Rihanna born 1988
  149. Malala Yousafzai born 1997
  150. Scarlett Johansson born 1984