Nelson Mandela & Steve Jobs

Did Nelson Mandela and Steve Jobs live at the same time?

Yes. Nelson Mandela and Steve Jobs lived at the same time for 56 years, from 1955 to 2011.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Nelson Mandela · Steve Jobs · Born in 1918 · Born in 1955

Nelson Mandela

Politics & Leadership

Anti-apartheid hero, South African President

Steve Jobs

Business & Industry

Co-founded Apple, changed technology

19182013

Nelson Mandela

Steve Jobs

Nelson Mandela

Politics & Leadership

Born in Mvezo

Died in Houghton Estate

Steve Jobs

Business & Industry

Born in San Francisco

Died in Palo Alto

World Events During Their Overlap

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

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Sources

Nelson Mandela — Wikipedia
Nelson Mandela (Q8023) — Wikidata
Steve Jobs — Wikipedia
Steve Jobs (Q19837) — Wikidata