Who was alive at the same time as Ali Khamenei?

Supreme Leader of Iran from 1989 to 2026

Ali Khamenei lived 1939–2026. Here are the famous people whose lives overlapped with theirs.

Lived: 1939–2026
Lifespan: about 87 years
Born in, as it was then: Mashhad
On today’s map: Iran

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When Ali Khamenei was born, Albert Einstein was already about 60 years old.
Ali Khamenei was about 3 when Jimi Hendrix was born.
Ali Khamenei and Pablo Picasso (Spanish painter and sculptor) shared about 34 years on Earth, one born in Iran and the other in Spain.

Famous contemporaries of Ali Khamenei

Rulers and commanders

Adolf Hitler 1889–1945 · 6 yrs shared
Joseph Stalin 1878–1953 · 14 yrs shared
Benito Mussolini 1883–1945 · 6 yrs shared
Mao Zedong 1893–1976 · 37 yrs shared
Winston Churchill 1874–1965 · 26 yrs shared
Charles de Gaulle 1890–1970 · 31 yrs shared

Philosophers and scientists

Albert Einstein 1879–1955 · 16 yrs shared
John Maynard Keynes 1883–1946 · 7 yrs shared
Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889–1951 · 12 yrs shared
Bertrand Russell 1872–1970 · 31 yrs shared
Henry Ford 1863–1947 · 8 yrs shared
Nikola Tesla 1856–1943 · 4 yrs shared

Religion

Pope John Paul II 1920–2005 · 66 yrs shared

Writers and artists

Pablo Picasso 1881–1973 · 34 yrs shared
Elvis Presley 1935–1977 · 38 yrs shared
Salvador Dalí 1904–1989 · 50 yrs shared
Marilyn Monroe 1926–1962 · 23 yrs shared
Le Corbusier 1887–1965 · 26 yrs shared
Jean-Paul Sartre 1905–1980 · 41 yrs shared

Explorers and others

Che Guevara 1928–1967 · 28 yrs shared
Mahatma Gandhi 1869–1948 · 9 yrs shared
Martin Luther King Jr. 1929–1968 · 29 yrs shared
Walt Disney 1901–1966 · 27 yrs shared
Mother Teresa 1910–1997 · 58 yrs shared
Pelé 1940–2022 · 82 yrs shared

Born within five years of Ali Khamenei

Elvis Presley (1935) · Jimi Hendrix (1942) · Bruce Lee (1940) · Bob Dylan (1941) · Saddam Hussein (1937) · John Lennon (1940) · Pelé (1940) · Al Pacino (1940)

About Ali Khamenei

Ali Hosseini Khamenei was an Iranian politician and Shia cleric who served as the supreme leader of Iran from 1989 until his assassination by Israeli airstrikes in 2026. The patriarch of the Khamenei family prior to his death, Khamenei had previously served as the president of Iran from 1981 to 1989. His 36-year tenure makes him Iran's longest-serving supreme leader.

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