Former leader of the USSR, legendary and erratic chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer, and double Grammy winner pop-jazz musician Laufey could’ve very realistically met up with each other as all three were in Reykjavik between 11-12 October 2006. Reykjavik only had a population of 114k people back then and the latter two already lived there. They could’ve actually met, like seriously.

She was also 45 when the movie came out

Bonus: they were also born after Richard Whiteley's passing.

Photograph from 1865.

Spongebob

Putin tenure as leader of Russia

Eminem's debut LP

The Afghanistan War

The lifespans of George Harrison or Lisa Left Eye Lopes

I Want It That Way

47% of his dad's movies

Women gained the right to vote in 1915 for Denmark, and 1999 for Qatar

Confusing post? Not at all!

You could take this post even further. The Duke's fourth wife was previously married to a Zambian business mogul. I don't know if he remarried. Both are still alive, but online details are scarce, and I didn't want to dig too deeply into the personal lives of living people.

The German Empire was formed in 1871, dissolved in 1918, Nazi Germany was formed in 1933 and fell in 1945, West and East Germany were formed in 1949 and East Germany fell in 1990, then, the two states united on the same day to form what we now know as modern Germany, going on to form the European Union in 1993. Jeanne, pictured above, would die in 1997, 4 years after the European Union was formed.

Born before one of the most famous pieces in classical music was released in 1905. In the year before his death, Taylor Swift also released her first 2 albums.

He has two brothers still alive, King Salman and Prince Muqrin and possibly a few sisters still alive

Current Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley was first sworn in as an elected representative (Iowa House) in 1959. In 1959, the oldest serving politician in the US was almost certainly Rhode Island Senator Theodore Green (1867-1966). Green served in the US Senate from 1937-1961.

At 93, Grassley is the second oldest serving federal politician of all time. Green, who retired from the Senate at 93, is now third.

October 18th, 1926.

Da Vinci was born in April 1452 and Shakespeare was born in April 1564, which is a span of 112 years, and Calment lived until she was 122 years old!