Who Was Alive

Were Yuri Andropov and Barack Obama alive at the same time?

Yes. Yuri Andropov and Barack Obama were alive at the same time for 22 years, from 1961 to 1984.

Yuri Andropov was 47 when Barack Obama was born.

Barack Obama was 22 when Yuri Andropov died, aged 69.

Yuri Andropov

General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Born 2 June 1914 (Julian calendar) · died 9 February 1984, aged 69

Barack Obama

44th President of the United States

Born 4 August 1961 · living, 65 as of September 2026

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Yuri Andropov and Barack Obama in bold, with some of their best-known contemporaries. Drag across to see the age each reached in any year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.