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Chris Columbus
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Chris Columbus

American screenwriter

Born 10 September 1958 · living, 68 as of November 2026
Also known as Chris Joseph Columbus

Who was alive at the same time as Chris Columbus?

  1. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  2. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  3. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  4. Mao Zedong, 1893 – 1976
  5. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  6. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  7. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  8. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  9. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  10. Marilyn Monroe, 1926 – 1962
  11. Che Guevara, 1928 – 1967
  12. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968
  13. Pope Francis, 1936 – 2025
  14. Joe Biden, born 1942
  15. Donald Trump, born 1946
  16. George W. Bush, born 1946
  17. Vladimir Putin, born 1952
  18. Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011
  19. Bill Gates, born 1955
  20. Michael Jackson, 1958 – 2009
  21. Chris Columbus, born 1958
  22. Barack Obama, born 1961
  23. Jimmy Wales, born 1966
  24. Shakira, born 1977

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When Chris Columbus was born, Donald Trump was 12, Michael Jackson was under a year old, Vladimir Putin was 5, Ronald Reagan was 47 and Nelson Mandela was 40.

Born during Chris Columbus’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Jimmy Wales, Shakira, Lionel Messi, Corbin Bleu, Basshunter, Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Cristiano Ronaldo.

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler died about 13 years before Chris Columbus was born, Albert Einstein died about 3 years before Chris Columbus was born, Mahatma Gandhi died about 10 years before Chris Columbus was born and Joseph Stalin died about 5 years before Chris Columbus was born.

What happened in Chris Columbus’s lifetime

Where Chris Columbus’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

4,029 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Chris Columbus. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1992.

  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. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  14. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  15. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  16. Bill Gates born 1955
  17. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  18. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  19. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  20. Shakira born 1977
  21. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  22. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  23. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  24. Lionel Messi born 1987
  25. Corbin Bleu born 1989
  26. Bill Clinton born 1946
  27. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  28. Basshunter born 1984
  29. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  30. Angela Merkel born 1954
  31. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  32. François Hollande born 1954
  33. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  34. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  35. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  36. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  37. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  38. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  39. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  40. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  41. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  42. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  43. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  44. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  45. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  46. Elon Musk born 1971
  47. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  48. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  49. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  50. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  51. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  52. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  53. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  54. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  55. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  56. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  57. Lady Gaga born 1986
  58. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  59. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  60. Madonna born 1958
  61. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  62. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  63. Kamala Harris born 1964
  64. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  65. Xi Jinping born 1953
  66. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  67. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  68. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  69. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  70. Naruhito born 1960
  71. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  72. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  73. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  74. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  75. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  76. Bob Dylan born 1941
  77. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  78. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  79. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  80. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  81. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  82. Justin Bieber born 1994
  83. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  84. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  85. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  86. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  87. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  88. Taylor Swift born 1989
  89. Charles III born 1948
  90. Kim Jong Un born 1984
  91. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  92. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  93. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  94. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  95. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  96. Beyoncé born 1981
  97. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  98. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  99. Eminem born 1972
  100. Selena Gomez born 1992
  101. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  102. Narendra Modi born 1950
  103. Rafael Correa born 1963
  104. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  105. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  106. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  107. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  108. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  109. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  110. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  111. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  112. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  113. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  114. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  115. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  116. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  117. Mark Zuckerberg born 1984
  118. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  119. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  120. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  121. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  122. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  123. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  124. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  125. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  126. Shinzo Abe 1954 – 2022
  127. Tim Berners-Lee born 1955
  128. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  129. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  130. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  131. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  132. Jackie Chan born 1954
  133. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  134. Robin Williams 1951 – 2014
  135. Celine Dion born 1968
  136. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  137. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  138. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  139. Guillermo Lasso born 1955
  140. Roger Federer born 1981
  141. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  142. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  143. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  144. Lana Del Rey born 1985
  145. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  146. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  147. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  148. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  149. Alexander Lukashenko born 1954
  150. Neymar born 1992