whowasalivewhenWho was alive at the same time?
Pick a famous person to see their contemporaries: the rulers, thinkers and artists whose lives overlapped with theirs.
Antiquity (before 500 CE)
- Alexander the Great 356–323 BCE
- Julius Caesar c. 100–44 BCE
- Cleopatra c. 70–30 BCE
- Jesus c. 4 BCE – 30 CE
Middle Ages (500–1499)
- Muhammad 571–632 CE
- Genghis Khan 1162–1227
- Christopher Columbus 1451–1506
- Henry VIII 1491–1546
Early modern (1500–1799)
- Elizabeth I 1533–1603
- William Shakespeare 1564–1616
- George Washington 1732–1799
- George III 1738–1820
- Marie Antoinette 1755–1793
- Alexander Hamilton 1757–1804
- Napoleon 1769–1821
19th century
- Abraham Lincoln 1809–1865
- Queen Victoria 1819–1901
- Chester A. Arthur 1829–1886
- James A. Garfield 1831–1881
- Edward VII 1841–1910
- Theodore Roosevelt 1858–1919
- George V 1865–1936
- Mahatma Gandhi 1869–1948
- Winston Churchill 1874–1965
- Joseph Stalin 1878–1953
- Albert Einstein 1879–1955
- Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882–1945
- Benito Mussolini 1883–1945
- Adolf Hitler 1889–1945
- Charlie Chaplin 1889–1977
- Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890–1969
- Hermann Göring 1893–1946
- Edward VIII 1894–1972
- George VI 1895–1952
20th century and later
- Ruhollah Khomeini c. 1900–1989
- Ansel Adams 1902–1984
- J. Robert Oppenheimer 1904–1967
- Ronald Reagan 1911–2004
- Richard Nixon 1913–1994
- Frank Sinatra 1915–1998
- John F. Kennedy 1917–1963
- Mohammad Reza Pahlavi 1919–1980
- Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh 1921–2021
- Judy Garland 1922–1969
- George H. W. Bush 1924–2018
- Marlon Brando 1924–2004
- Jimmy Carter 1924–2024
- Robert F. Kennedy 1925–1968
- Elizabeth II 1926–2022
- Marilyn Monroe 1926–1962
- Che Guevara 1928–1967
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis 1929–1994
- Martin Luther King Jr. 1929–1968
- Audrey Hepburn 1929–1993
- Robert Duvall 1931–2026
- Elizabeth Taylor 1932–2011
- Anthony Perkins 1932–1992
- Jane Goodall 1934–2025
- Brigitte Bardot 1934–2025
- Elvis Presley 1935–1977
- Robert Redford 1936–2025
- Saddam Hussein 1937–2006
- Ali Khamenei 1939–2026
- Bruce Lee 1940–1973
- Chuck Norris 1940–2026
- John Lennon 1940–1980
- Pelé 1940–2022
- Dick Cheney 1941–2025
- Stephen Hawking 1942–2018
- Muhammad Ali 1942–2016
- George Harrison 1943–2001
- Dolly Parton 1946–2026
- Diane Keaton 1946–2025
- Freddie Mercury 1946–1991
- Sam Neill 1947–2026
- David Bowie 1947–2016
- O. J. Simpson 1947–2024
- Ozzy Osbourne 1948–2025
- John Candy 1950–1994
- Robin Williams 1951–2014
- Bonnie Tyler 1951–2026
- Hulk Hogan 1953–2025
- Steve Jobs 1955–2011
- Michael Jackson 1958–2009
- Prince 1958–2016
- Val Kilmer 1959–2025
- Diego Maradona 1960–2020
- Diana, Princess of Wales 1961–1997
- George Michael 1963–2016
- Whitney Houston 1963–2012
- Lisa Marie Presley 1968–2023
- Matthew Perry 1969–2023
- Tupac Shakur 1971–1996
- Eric Dane 1972–2026
- Brittany Murphy 1977–2009
- Kobe Bryant 1978–2020
- Heath Ledger 1979–2008
- Amy Winehouse 1983–2011
- Michelle Trachtenberg 1985–2025
- Hayden Panettiere 1989–2026