David Bowie & Fidel Castro

Did David Bowie and Fidel Castro live at the same time?

Yes. David Bowie and Fidel Castro lived at the same time for 69 years, from 1947 to 2016.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

David Bowie · Fidel Castro · Born in 1947 · Born in 1926

David Bowie

Ziggy Stardust, musical chameleon

Fidel Castro

Politics & Leadership

Cuban revolutionary leader

19262016

David Bowie

Fidel Castro

David Bowie

Music

Born in Brixton

Died in Manhattan

Fidel Castro

Politics & Leadership

Born in Birán

Died in Havana

World Events During Their Overlap

1947 India and Pakistan gain independence

1948 State of Israel established

1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted

1949 People's Republic of China proclaimed

1950 Korean War begins

1953 Watson and Crick discover DNA structure

1955 Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

1957 Sputnik launched; Space Age begins

1959 Cuban Revolution; Castro takes power

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

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Sources

David Bowie — Wikipedia
David Bowie (Q5383) — Wikidata
Fidel Castro — Wikipedia
Fidel Castro (Q11256) — Wikidata