Who Was Alive

Yun Hyon-seok

South Korean poet and activist

Born 7 August 1984 · died 26 April 2003, aged 18
Also known as Yoon Hyeon-seok, Yukwudang, Yun Hyeon-seok

Who was alive at the same time as Yun Hyon-seok?

  1. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  2. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  3. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  4. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  5. Neil Armstrong, 1930 – 2012
  6. Pope Francis, 1936 – 2025
  7. Joe Biden, born 1942
  8. Donald Trump, born 1946
  9. George W. Bush, born 1946
  10. Bill Clinton, born 1946
  11. Vladimir Putin, born 1952
  12. Angela Merkel, born 1954
  13. François Hollande, born 1954
  14. Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011
  15. Bill Gates, born 1955
  16. Michael Jackson, 1958 – 2009
  17. Barack Obama, born 1961
  18. Jimmy Wales, born 1966
  19. Shakira, born 1977
  20. Volodymyr Zelenskyy, born 1978
  21. Yun Hyon-seok, 1984 – 2003
  22. Basshunter, born 1984
  23. Lionel Messi, born 1987
  24. Corbin Bleu, born 1989

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When Yun Hyon-seok was born, Barack Obama was 23, Donald Trump was 38, Michael Jackson was 25, Vladimir Putin was 31 and Ronald Reagan was 73.

When Yun Hyon-seok died, Barack Obama was 41, Donald Trump was 56, Michael Jackson was 44, Vladimir Putin was 50 and Ronald Reagan was 92.

Born during Yun Hyon-seok’s lifetime: Lionel Messi, Corbin Bleu, Basshunter, Cristiano Ronaldo, Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift and Selena Gomez.

Not quite contemporaries: Pablo Picasso died about 11 years before Yun Hyon-seok was born, Charlie Chaplin died about 7 years before Yun Hyon-seok was born, Mao Zedong died about 8 years before Yun Hyon-seok was born and Charles de Gaulle died about 14 years before Yun Hyon-seok was born.

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Where Yun Hyon-seok’s contemporaries were born

Yun Hyon-seok is labelled; the others are the best-known people we track who lived at the same time. Each dot is a birthplace from Wikidata (79 of 81 placed); tap one to open that person.
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The 150 best-known contemporaries

3,470 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Yun Hyon-seok. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1994.

  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. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  10. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  11. Bill Gates born 1955
  12. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  13. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  14. Shakira born 1977
  15. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  16. Lionel Messi born 1987
  17. Corbin Bleu born 1989
  18. Bill Clinton born 1946
  19. Basshunter born 1984
  20. Angela Merkel born 1954
  21. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  22. François Hollande born 1954
  23. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  24. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  25. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  26. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  27. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  28. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  29. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  30. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  31. Elon Musk born 1971
  32. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  33. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  34. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  35. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  36. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  37. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  38. Lady Gaga born 1986
  39. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  40. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  41. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  42. Madonna born 1958
  43. Kamala Harris born 1964
  44. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  45. Xi Jinping born 1953
  46. Naruhito born 1960
  47. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  48. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  49. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  50. Bob Dylan born 1941
  51. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  52. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  53. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  54. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  55. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  56. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  57. Justin Bieber born 1994
  58. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  59. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  60. Taylor Swift born 1989
  61. Charles III born 1948
  62. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  63. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  64. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  65. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  66. Kim Jong Un born 1984
  67. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  68. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  69. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  70. Eminem born 1972
  71. Beyoncé born 1981
  72. Selena Gomez born 1992
  73. Narendra Modi born 1950
  74. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  75. Rafael Correa born 1963
  76. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  77. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  78. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  79. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  80. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  81. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  82. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  83. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  84. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  85. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  86. Mark Zuckerberg born 1984
  87. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  88. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  89. Shinzo Abe 1954 – 2022
  90. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  91. Tim Berners-Lee born 1955
  92. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  93. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  94. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  95. Jackie Chan born 1954
  96. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  97. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  98. Robin Williams 1951 – 2014
  99. Guillermo Lasso born 1955
  100. Celine Dion born 1968
  101. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  102. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  103. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  104. Roger Federer born 1981
  105. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  106. Lana Del Rey born 1985
  107. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  108. Alexander Lukashenko born 1954
  109. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  110. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  111. Woody Allen born 1935
  112. Neymar born 1992
  113. Tony Blair born 1953
  114. Rihanna born 1988
  115. Malala Yousafzai born 1997
  116. Scarlett Johansson born 1984
  117. Rafael Nadal born 1986
  118. Yasser Arafat 1929 – 2004
  119. Greta Thunberg born 2003
  120. Ban Ki-moon born 1944
  121. Arnold Schwarzenegger born 1947
  122. David Cameron born 1966
  123. Linus Torvalds born 1969
  124. Novak Djokovic born 1987
  125. Brigitte Bardot 1934 – 2025
  126. Hebe Camargo 1929 – 2012
  127. Umberto Eco 1932 – 2016
  128. Diana, Princess of Wales 1961 – 1997
  129. Boris Johnson born 1964
  130. Bashar al-Assad born 1965
  131. Audrey Hepburn 1929 – 1993
  132. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva born 1945
  133. Benazir Bhutto 1953 – 2007
  134. Jair Bolsonaro born 1955
  135. Paul McCartney born 1942
  136. Anggun born 1974
  137. Leonardo DiCaprio born 1974
  138. Agnez Mo born 1986
  139. Stephen King born 1947
  140. Theresa May born 1956
  141. Johnny Depp born 1963
  142. Brad Pitt born 1963
  143. Maya Angelou 1928 – 2014
  144. Zinedine Zidane born 1972
  145. Britney Spears born 1981
  146. Sean Connery 1930 – 2020
  147. Elizabeth Taylor 1932 – 2011
  148. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad born 1956
  149. Satyajit Ray 1921 – 1992
  150. Henry Kissinger 1923 – 2023