Who was alive at the same time as John Lennon?

British musician

John Lennon lived 1940–1980. Here are the famous people whose lives overlapped with theirs.

Lived: 1940–1980
Lifespan: about 40 years
Born in, as it was then: Liverpool
On today’s map: United Kingdom

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Did you know?

When John Lennon was born, Adolf Hitler was already about 51 years old.
John Lennon and Pablo Picasso (Spanish painter and sculptor) shared about 33 years on Earth, one born in the United Kingdom and the other in Spain.
Salvador Dalí outlived John Lennon by about 9 years.

Famous contemporaries of John Lennon

Rulers and commanders

Adolf Hitler 1889–1945 · 5 yrs shared
Joseph Stalin 1878–1953 · 13 yrs shared
Benito Mussolini 1883–1945 · 5 yrs shared
Mao Zedong 1893–1976 · 36 yrs shared
Winston Churchill 1874–1965 · 25 yrs shared
Charles de Gaulle 1890–1970 · 30 yrs shared

Philosophers and scientists

Albert Einstein 1879–1955 · 15 yrs shared
John Maynard Keynes 1883–1946 · 6 yrs shared
Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889–1951 · 11 yrs shared
Bertrand Russell 1872–1970 · 30 yrs shared
Henry Ford 1863–1947 · 7 yrs shared
Nikola Tesla 1856–1943 · 3 yrs shared

Religion

Pope John Paul II 1920–2005 · 40 yrs shared

Writers and artists

Pablo Picasso 1881–1973 · 33 yrs shared
Elvis Presley 1935–1977 · 37 yrs shared
Salvador Dalí 1904–1989 · 40 yrs shared
Marilyn Monroe 1926–1962 · 22 yrs shared
Le Corbusier 1887–1965 · 25 yrs shared
Jean-Paul Sartre 1905–1980 · 40 yrs shared

Explorers and others

Che Guevara 1928–1967 · 27 yrs shared
Mahatma Gandhi 1869–1948 · 8 yrs shared
Martin Luther King Jr. 1929–1968 · 28 yrs shared
Walt Disney 1901–1966 · 26 yrs shared
Mother Teresa 1910–1997 · 40 yrs shared
Pelé 1940–2022 · 40 yrs shared

Born within five years of John Lennon

Elvis Presley (1935) · Jimi Hendrix (1942) · Bob Marley (1945) · Bruce Lee (1940) · Bob Dylan (1941) · Saddam Hussein (1937) · Pelé (1940) · Al Pacino (1940)

About John Lennon

John Winston Ono Lennon was an English musician, songwriter and activist. He gained global fame as the founder of the Beatles, in which he was the co-lead vocalist and played rhythm guitar, later adopting lead and bass guitar, keyboards and other instruments. Lennon's songwriting partnership with Paul McCartney remains the most successful in history.

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