Who was alive at the same time as Ruhollah Khomeini?

Supreme Leader of Iran from 1979 to 1989

Ruhollah Khomeini lived c. 1900–1989. Here are the famous people whose lives overlapped with theirs.

Lived: c. 1900–1989
Lifespan: about 89 years
Born in, as it was then: Khomeyn
On today’s map: Iran

Birth year disputed: sources give 1900 or 1902.

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Did you know?

When Ruhollah Khomeini was born, Adolf Hitler was already about 11 years old.
Ruhollah Khomeini was about 28 when Che Guevara was born.
Ruhollah Khomeini and Albert Einstein (German-born theoretical physicist) shared about 55 years on Earth, one born in Iran and the other in Germany.
Mother Teresa outlived Ruhollah Khomeini by about 8 years.

Famous contemporaries of Ruhollah Khomeini

Rulers and commanders

Adolf Hitler 1889–1945 · 45 yrs shared
Joseph Stalin 1878–1953 · 53 yrs shared
Vladimir Lenin 1870–1924 · 24 yrs shared
Benito Mussolini 1883–1945 · 45 yrs shared
Mao Zedong 1893–1976 · 76 yrs shared
Winston Churchill 1874–1965 · 65 yrs shared

Philosophers and scientists

Albert Einstein 1879–1955 · 55 yrs shared
Sigmund Freud 1856–1939 · 39 yrs shared
Max Weber 1864–1920 · 20 yrs shared
Thomas Edison 1847–1931 · 31 yrs shared
Marie Curie 1867–1934 · 34 yrs shared
John Maynard Keynes 1883–1946 · 46 yrs shared

Writers and artists

Pablo Picasso 1881–1973 · 73 yrs shared
Elvis Presley 1935–1977 · 42 yrs shared
Salvador Dalí 1904–1989 · 85 yrs shared
Claude Monet 1840–1926 · 26 yrs shared
Giuseppe Verdi 1813–1901 · 1 yrs shared
Marilyn Monroe 1926–1962 · 36 yrs shared

Explorers and others

Che Guevara 1928–1967 · 39 yrs shared
Mahatma Gandhi 1869–1948 · 48 yrs shared
Martin Luther King Jr. 1929–1968 · 39 yrs shared
Walt Disney 1901–1966 · 65 yrs shared
Mother Teresa 1910–1997 · 79 yrs shared

Born within five years of Ruhollah Khomeini

Salvador Dalí (1904) · Walt Disney (1901) · Jean-Paul Sartre (1905) · Heinrich Himmler (1900) · George Orwell (1903) · Joseph Goebbels (1897) · Bertolt Brecht (1898) · Ernest Hemingway (1899)

About Ruhollah Khomeini

Ruhollah Mostafavi Khomeini was an Iranian politician and Shia cleric who served as the first supreme leader of Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989. He was the leader of the Iranian Revolution, which overthrew Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, ended the Pahlavi era, and transformed the country into an Islamic republic. As supreme leader, he implemented policies that came to be known as Khomeinism.

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