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Aaron Eckhart
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Aaron Eckhart

American actor

Born 12 March 1968 · living, 58 as of October 2026
Also known as Aaron Edward Eckhart

Who was alive at the same time as Aaron Eckhart?

  1. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  2. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  3. Charles de Gaulle, 1890 – 1970
  4. Mao Zedong, 1893 – 1976
  5. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  6. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  7. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  8. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  9. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968
  10. Pope Francis, 1936 – 2025
  11. Joe Biden, born 1942
  12. Donald Trump, born 1946
  13. George W. Bush, born 1946
  14. Bill Clinton, born 1946
  15. Vladimir Putin, born 1952
  16. Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011
  17. Bill Gates, born 1955
  18. Michael Jackson, 1958 – 2009
  19. Barack Obama, born 1961
  20. Jimmy Wales, born 1966
  21. Aaron Eckhart, born 1968
  22. Shakira, born 1977
  23. Lionel Messi, born 1987
  24. Corbin Bleu, born 1989

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When Aaron Eckhart was born, Barack Obama was 6, Donald Trump was 21, Michael Jackson was 9, Vladimir Putin was 15 and Ronald Reagan was 57.

Born during Aaron Eckhart’s lifetime: Shakira, Lionel Messi, Corbin Bleu, Basshunter, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Cristiano Ronaldo, Elon Musk and Emmanuel Macron.

Not quite contemporaries: Albert Einstein died about 13 years before Aaron Eckhart was born, Winston Churchill died about 3 years before Aaron Eckhart was born, John F. Kennedy died about 5 years before Aaron Eckhart was born and Marilyn Monroe died about 6 years before Aaron Eckhart was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

3,828 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Aaron Eckhart. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1997.

  1. Barack Obama born 1961
  2. Donald Trump born 1946
  3. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  4. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  5. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  6. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  7. George W. Bush born 1946
  8. Joe Biden born 1942
  9. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  10. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  11. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  12. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  13. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  14. Bill Gates born 1955
  15. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  16. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  17. Shakira born 1977
  18. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  19. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  20. Lionel Messi born 1987
  21. Corbin Bleu born 1989
  22. Bill Clinton born 1946
  23. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  24. Basshunter born 1984
  25. Angela Merkel born 1954
  26. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  27. François Hollande born 1954
  28. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  29. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  30. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  31. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  32. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  33. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  34. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  35. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  36. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  37. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  38. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  39. Elon Musk born 1971
  40. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  41. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  42. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  43. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  44. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  45. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  46. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  47. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  48. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  49. Lady Gaga born 1986
  50. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  51. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  52. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  53. Madonna born 1958
  54. Kamala Harris born 1964
  55. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  56. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  57. Xi Jinping born 1953
  58. Naruhito born 1960
  59. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  60. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  61. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  62. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  63. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  64. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  65. Bob Dylan born 1941
  66. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  67. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  68. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  69. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  70. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  71. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  72. Justin Bieber born 1994
  73. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  74. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  75. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  76. Taylor Swift born 1989
  77. Charles III born 1948
  78. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  79. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  80. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  81. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  82. Kim Jong Un born 1984
  83. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  84. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  85. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  86. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  87. Eminem born 1972
  88. Beyoncé born 1981
  89. Selena Gomez born 1992
  90. Narendra Modi born 1950
  91. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  92. Rafael Correa born 1963
  93. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  94. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  95. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  96. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  97. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  98. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  99. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  100. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  101. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  102. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  103. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  104. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  105. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  106. Mark Zuckerberg born 1984
  107. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  108. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  109. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  110. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  111. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  112. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  113. Shinzo Abe 1954 – 2022
  114. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  115. Tim Berners-Lee born 1955
  116. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  117. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  118. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  119. Jackie Chan born 1954
  120. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  121. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  122. Robin Williams 1951 – 2014
  123. Guillermo Lasso born 1955
  124. Celine Dion born 1968
  125. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  126. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  127. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  128. Roger Federer born 1981
  129. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  130. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  131. Lana Del Rey born 1985
  132. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  133. Alexander Lukashenko born 1954
  134. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  135. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  136. Woody Allen born 1935
  137. Neymar born 1992
  138. Tony Blair born 1953
  139. Rihanna born 1988
  140. Malala Yousafzai born 1997
  141. Scarlett Johansson born 1984
  142. Rafael Nadal born 1986
  143. Yasser Arafat 1929 – 2004
  144. Greta Thunberg born 2003
  145. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  146. Judy Garland 1922 – 1969
  147. Ban Ki-moon born 1944
  148. Arnold Schwarzenegger born 1947
  149. David Cameron born 1966
  150. Linus Torvalds born 1969