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Nelson Mandela & Whitney Houston

Did Nelson Mandela and Whitney Houston live at the same time?

Yes. Nelson Mandela and Whitney Houston lived at the same time for 49 years, from 1963 to 2012.[1][2][3][4]

Nelson Mandela · Whitney Houston · Born in 1918 · Born in 1963

Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela
1918–2013
Politics & Leadership
Anti-apartheid hero, South African President
Whitney Houston
Whitney Houston
1963–2012
Music
The Voice, I Will Always Love You
19182013
Nelson Mandela
Whitney Houston
Nelson Mandela
Politics & Leadership
Born in Mvezo
Died in Houghton Estate
Whitney Houston
Music
Born in Newark
Died in The Beverly Hilton

World Events During Their Overlap

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

  1. Nelson Mandela — Wikipedia
  2. Nelson Mandela (Q8023) — Wikidata
  3. Whitney Houston — Wikipedia
  4. Whitney Houston (Q34389) — Wikidata