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Jimmy Wales & Vladimir Putin

Did Jimmy Wales and Vladimir Putin live at the same time?

Yes. Jimmy Wales and Vladimir Putin have lived at the same time for 60 years, from 1966 to the present.[1][2][3][4]

Jimmy Wales · Vladimir Putin · Born in 1966 · Born in 1952

Jimmy Wales
Jimmy Wales
1966–present
Business & Industry
Co-founder of Wikipedia
Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin
1952–present
Politics & Leadership
President of Russia
19522026
Jimmy Wales
Vladimir Putin
Jimmy Wales
Business & Industry
Born in Huntsville
Vladimir Putin
Politics & Leadership
Born in V.F. Snegiryov Maternity Hospital No.6

World Events During Their Overlap

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

  1. Jimmy Wales — Wikipedia
  2. Jimmy Wales (Q181) — Wikidata
  3. Vladimir Putin — Wikipedia
  4. Vladimir Putin (Q7747) — Wikidata