Who Was Alive
Bob Hoskins
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Bob Hoskins

British actor

Born 26 October 1942 · died 29 April 2014, aged 71
Also known as Robert William Hoskins Jr., Robert William Hoskins

Who was alive at the same time as Bob Hoskins?

  1. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  2. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  3. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  4. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  5. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  6. Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1882 – 1945
  7. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  8. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  9. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  10. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  11. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  12. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  13. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  14. Marilyn Monroe, 1926 – 1962
  15. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968
  16. Bob Hoskins, 1942 – 2014
  17. Joe Biden, born 1942
  18. Donald Trump, born 1946
  19. George W. Bush, born 1946
  20. Vladimir Putin, born 1952
  21. Bill Gates, born 1955
  22. Michael Jackson, 1958 – 2009
  23. Barack Obama, born 1961
  24. Jimmy Wales, born 1966

Drag across the timeline, or use the arrow keys, to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Dashed lines mark world events. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Bob Hoskins was born, Adolf Hitler was 53, Albert Einstein was 63, Ronald Reagan was 31, Nelson Mandela was 24 and Mahatma Gandhi was 73.

When Bob Hoskins died, Barack Obama was 52, Donald Trump was 67, Vladimir Putin was 61, George W. Bush was 67 and Joe Biden was 71.

Born during Bob Hoskins’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Bill Gates and Jimmy Wales.

Not quite contemporaries: Thomas Edison died about 11 years before Bob Hoskins was born, Sigmund Freud died about 3 years before Bob Hoskins was born, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk died about 4 years before Bob Hoskins was born and Marie Curie died about 8 years before Bob Hoskins was born.

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Where Bob Hoskins’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

4,215 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Bob Hoskins. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1978.

  1. Barack Obama born 1961
  2. Donald Trump born 1946
  3. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  4. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  5. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  6. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  7. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  8. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  9. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  10. George W. Bush born 1946
  11. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  12. Joe Biden born 1942
  13. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  14. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  15. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  16. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  17. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  18. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  19. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  20. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  21. Bill Gates born 1955
  22. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  23. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  24. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  25. Shakira born 1977
  26. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  27. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  28. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  29. Lionel Messi born 1987
  30. Corbin Bleu born 1989
  31. Bill Clinton born 1946
  32. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  33. Basshunter born 1984
  34. Angela Merkel born 1954
  35. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  36. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  37. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  38. François Hollande born 1954
  39. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  40. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  41. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  42. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  43. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  44. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  45. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  46. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  47. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  48. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  49. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  50. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  51. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  52. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  53. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  54. Elon Musk born 1971
  55. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  56. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  57. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  58. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  59. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  60. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  61. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  62. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  63. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  64. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  65. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  66. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  67. Lady Gaga born 1986
  68. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  69. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  70. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  71. Madonna born 1958
  72. Kamala Harris born 1964
  73. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  74. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  75. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  76. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  77. Xi Jinping born 1953
  78. Naruhito born 1960
  79. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  80. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  81. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  82. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  83. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  84. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  85. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  86. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  87. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  88. Bob Dylan born 1941
  89. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  90. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  91. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  92. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  93. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  94. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  95. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  96. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  97. Justin Bieber born 1994
  98. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  99. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  100. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  101. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  102. Taylor Swift born 1989
  103. Charles III born 1948
  104. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  105. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  106. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  107. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  108. Kim Jong Un born 1984
  109. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  110. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  111. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  112. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  113. Eminem born 1972
  114. Beyoncé born 1981
  115. Selena Gomez born 1992
  116. Narendra Modi born 1950
  117. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  118. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  119. Rafael Correa born 1963
  120. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  121. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  122. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  123. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  124. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  125. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  126. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  127. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  128. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  129. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  130. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  131. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  132. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  133. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  134. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  135. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  136. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  137. Mark Zuckerberg born 1984
  138. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  139. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  140. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  141. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  142. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  143. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  144. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  145. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  146. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  147. Shinzo Abe 1954 – 2022
  148. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  149. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  150. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992