Who Was Alive

Brad Pitt

American actor

Born 18 December 1963 · living, 62 as of September 2026

Who was alive at the same time as Brad Pitt?

  1. Winston Churchill
  2. Pablo Picasso
  3. Charlie Chaplin
  4. Mao Zedong
  5. Salvador Dalí
  6. Ronald Reagan
  7. Nelson Mandela
  8. Elizabeth II
  9. Che Guevara
  10. Martin Luther King Jr.
  11. Pope Francis
  12. Joe Biden
  13. Donald Trump
  14. George W. Bush
  15. Vladimir Putin
  16. Steve Jobs
  17. Bill Gates
  18. Michael Jackson
  19. Barack Obama
  20. Brad Pitt
  21. Jimmy Wales
  22. Shakira
  23. Lionel Messi
  24. Corbin Bleu
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When Brad Pitt was born, Barack Obama was 2, Donald Trump was 17, Michael Jackson was 5, Vladimir Putin was 11 and Ronald Reagan was 52.

Born during Brad Pitt’s lifetime: Jimmy Wales, Shakira, Lionel Messi, Corbin Bleu, Basshunter, Cristiano Ronaldo, Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Elon Musk.

Not quite contemporaries: Albert Einstein died 8 years before Brad Pitt was born, Joseph Stalin died 10 years before Brad Pitt was born, John F. Kennedy died months before Brad Pitt was born and Marilyn Monroe died about a year before Brad Pitt was born.

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  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. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  11. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  12. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  13. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  14. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  15. Bill Gates born 1955
  16. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  17. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  18. Shakira born 1977
  19. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  20. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  21. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  22. Lionel Messi born 1987
  23. Corbin Bleu born 1989
  24. Bill Clinton born 1946
  25. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  26. Basshunter born 1984
  27. Angela Merkel born 1954
  28. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  29. François Hollande born 1954
  30. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  31. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  32. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  33. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  34. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  35. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  36. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  37. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  38. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  39. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  40. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  41. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  42. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  43. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  44. Elon Musk born 1971
  45. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  46. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  47. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  48. Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  49. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  50. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  51. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  52. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  53. Lady Gaga born 1986
  54. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  55. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  56. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  57. Madonna born 1958
  58. Kamala Harris born 1964
  59. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  60. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  61. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  62. Xi Jinping born 1953
  63. Naruhito born 1960
  64. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  65. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  66. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  67. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  68. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  69. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  70. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  71. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  72. Bob Dylan born 1941
  73. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  74. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  75. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  76. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  77. Justin Bieber born 1994
  78. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  79. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  80. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  81. Taylor Swift born 1989
  82. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  83. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  84. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  85. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  86. Charles III born 1948
  87. Kim Jong-un born 1984
  88. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  89. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  90. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  91. Eminem born 1972
  92. Beyoncé born 1981
  93. Selena Gomez born 1992
  94. Leo XIV born 1955
  95. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  96. Narendra Modi born 1950
  97. Rafael Correa born 1963
  98. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  99. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  100. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  101. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  102. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  103. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  104. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  105. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  106. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  107. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  108. Tenzin Gyatso born 1935
  109. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  110. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  111. Mark Zuckerberg born 1984
  112. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  113. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  114. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  115. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  116. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  117. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  118. Shinzō Abe 1954 – 2022
  119. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  120. Isaac Asimov 1919–1920 – 1992
  121. Tim Berners-Lee born 1955
  122. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  123. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  124. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  125. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  126. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  127. Robin Williams 1951 – 2014
  128. Jackie Chan born 1954
  129. Kim Il-sung 1912 – 1994
  130. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  131. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  132. Guillermo Lasso born 1955
  133. Céline Dion born 1968
  134. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  135. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  136. Roger Federer born 1981
  137. Lana Del Rey born 1985
  138. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  139. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  140. Alexander Lukashenka born 1954
  141. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  142. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  143. Woody Allen born 1935
  144. Tony Blair born 1953
  145. Rihanna born 1988
  146. Neymar born 1992
  147. Malala Yousafzai born 1997
  148. Scarlett Johansson born 1984
  149. Yasser Arafat 1929 – 2004
  150. Rafael Nadal born 1986

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