Barack Obama & Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Did Barack Obama and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan live at the same time?

Yes. Barack Obama and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan have lived at the same time for 65 years, from 1961 to the present.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Barack Obama · Recep Tayyip Erdoğan · Born in 1961 · Born in 1954

Barack Obama

Politics & Leadership

44th US President, first African American president

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Politics & Leadership

President of Turkey

19542026

Barack Obama

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Barack Obama

Politics & Leadership

Born in Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Politics & Leadership

Born in Kasımpaşa

World Events During Their Overlap

1961 Berlin Wall constructed

1962 Cuban Missile Crisis

1963 Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

1964 Civil Rights Act signed in the United States

1969 Apollo 11: first humans walk on the Moon

1971 Bangladesh Liberation War and independence

1973 1973 oil crisis

1975 Fall of Saigon; Vietnam War ends

1979 Iranian Revolution

1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster

1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall

1989 Tiananmen Square protests

1990 Nelson Mandela released from prison

1991 Dissolution of the Soviet Union

1994 Rwandan genocide

1994 End of apartheid; South Africa holds first free elections

1997 Dolly the Sheep cloned

1998 Good Friday Agreement signed in Northern Ireland

2001 September 11 attacks

2003 Human Genome Project completed

2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami

2008 Global financial crisis

2010 Arab Spring begins

2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster

2015 Paris Agreement on climate change adopted

2016 United Kingdom votes to leave the European Union

2020 COVID-19 pandemic declared

2022 Russia invades Ukraine

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Sources

Barack Obama — Wikipedia
Barack Obama (Q76) — Wikidata
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan — Wikipedia
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (Q39259) — Wikidata