Who Was Alive

Yuri Gagarin

Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, first human in space

Born 9 March 1934 · died 27 March 1968, aged 34

Who was alive at the same time as Yuri Gagarin?

  1. Sigmund Freud
  2. Rabindranath Tagore
  3. Marie Curie
  4. Mahatma Gandhi
  5. Winston Churchill
  6. Joseph Stalin
  7. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  8. Albert Einstein
  9. Pablo Picasso
  10. Charlie Chaplin
  11. Adolf Hitler
  12. Salvador Dalí
  13. Ronald Reagan
  14. John F. Kennedy
  15. Nelson Mandela
  16. Elizabeth II
  17. Martin Luther King Jr.
  18. Yuri Gagarin
  19. Joe Biden
  20. Donald Trump
  21. George W. Bush
  22. Vladimir Putin
  23. Michael Jackson
  24. Barack Obama
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When Yuri Gagarin was born, Adolf Hitler was 44, Albert Einstein was 54, Ronald Reagan was 23, Nelson Mandela was 15 and Mahatma Gandhi was 64.

When Yuri Gagarin died, Barack Obama was 6, Donald Trump was 21, Michael Jackson was 9, Vladimir Putin was 15 and Ronald Reagan was 57.

Born during Yuri Gagarin’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Bill Gates and Jimmy Wales.

Not quite contemporaries: Vladimir Lenin died 10 years before Yuri Gagarin was born, Thomas Edison died 3 years before Yuri Gagarin was born, Franz Kafka died 10 years before Yuri Gagarin was born and Shakira was born 9 years after Yuri Gagarin died.

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