Your favourite celeb is older than you think!
Your favorite celebrity is older than you think! People discover the stars who lived at the same time as an important historical figure – and their minds are blown
People are discovering that what seems like distant history is closer than you might think, and it surprises them.
To the AskUK Forum on Reddit, an invited user posed the question, “Which two people would it seem totally crazy that they were alive at the same time?”
They kicked off the discussion by saying that they find it “absurd that Picasso lived (albeit briefly) at the same time as Liam Gallagher.”
Proving that your favorite celebrity is probably older than you think, people also marveled at the fact that Keanu Reeves was born in 1964, a year before British wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill died.
Meanwhile, Sir Rod Stewart, who was born in 1945, may well remember the era of Alber Einstein because he was 10 years old when the Nobel Prize-winning physicist died in 1955.
Sir Rod Stewart, 78, was born in 1945 and remembers when Albert Einstein was still alive. Right: Albert Einstein pictured in 1951, when Sir Rod would have been six years old. The physicist died in 1955
Eminem was born in 1972, five years before Charlie Chaplin died. Right: Charlie Chaplin, in a scene from the 1925 movie The Gold Rush, died in 1977
Oasis rocker Liam Gallagher was born in 1972 and artist Pablo PICasso died a year later in 1973
Fans of Lil’ Kim pointed out that she was born in 1974 and noted the crossover with civil rights activist Rosa Parks who died in 2005.
The rapper was a huge star in the late 1990s and early 1990s, and one commenter speculated, “Rosa died in 2005, so she may have heard Big Momma Thang, How Many Licks, and Magic Stick.”
“Charlie Chaplin and 50 Cent overlap by two years,” another noted. William Shatner was born the year Thomas Eddison died. Einstein and Oprah Winfrey have overlapped for about ten years.”
High School Musical star Vanessa Hudgens was born in 1988. Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí died a year later in 1989, but suddenly seems a lot more modern when you consider that he designed the Chupa Chups logo
People were also surprised that Keanu Reeves was born in 1964, a year before British wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill (right) died in 1965
Lil Kim (left) was born in 1974. Civil rights activist Rosa Parks (right) died in 2005, and fans speculated she may have heard Lil Kim’s music in the late 90s
The Last Of Us star Pedro Pascal was born in 1964, a year before Agatha Christie’s death
Born in 1984, Calvin Harris is old enough to remember that classic movie star Audrey Hepburn was still alive. She died in 1993 when Calvin was nine years old
People thought about how recent historical events like World War II can seem when they consider that HItler’s accomplice Rudolf Hess, pictured right at the Nuremberg Trials, died in 1987 when Nicki Minaj (left) was five years old
Born in 1987, actor Zac Efron entered Holiday Inn on Broadway in 2016, a musical based on Irving Berlin’s songs. The famous composer Irving Berlin died in 1989, two years after the birth of Zac Efron
Tennis and table tennis player Fredy Perry (left), the world number one, died in 1995 when Andy Murray was 12 years old. Also a world number one, Andy Murray (right) was born in 1987