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Danny Elfman
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Danny Elfman

American composer

Born 29 May 1953 · living, 73 as of November 2026
Also known as Daniel Elfman, Daniel Robert Elfman

Who was alive at the same time as Danny Elfman?

  1. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  2. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  3. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  4. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  5. Mao Zedong, 1893 – 1976
  6. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  7. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  8. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  9. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  10. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  11. Marilyn Monroe, 1926 – 1962
  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. Danny Elfman, born 1953
  19. Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011
  20. Bill Gates, born 1955
  21. Michael Jackson, 1958 – 2009
  22. Barack Obama, born 1961
  23. Jimmy Wales, born 1966
  24. Shakira, born 1977

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When Danny Elfman was born, Donald Trump was 6, Albert Einstein was 74, Vladimir Putin was under a year old, Ronald Reagan was 42 and Nelson Mandela was 34.

Born during Danny Elfman’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Michael Jackson, Bill Gates, Jimmy Wales, Shakira, Steve Jobs, Lionel Messi and Corbin Bleu.

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler died about 8 years before Danny Elfman was born, Mahatma Gandhi died about 5 years before Danny Elfman was born, Joseph Stalin died months before Danny Elfman was born and Sigmund Freud died about 14 years before Danny Elfman was born.

What happened in Danny Elfman’s lifetime

Where Danny Elfman’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

4,103 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Danny Elfman. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1990.

  1. Barack Obama born 1961
  2. Donald Trump born 1946
  3. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  4. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  5. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  6. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  7. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  8. George W. Bush born 1946
  9. Joe Biden born 1942
  10. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  11. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  12. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  13. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  14. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  15. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  16. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  17. Bill Gates born 1955
  18. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  19. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  20. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  21. Shakira born 1977
  22. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  23. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  24. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  25. Lionel Messi born 1987
  26. Corbin Bleu born 1989
  27. Bill Clinton born 1946
  28. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  29. Basshunter born 1984
  30. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  31. Angela Merkel born 1954
  32. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  33. François Hollande born 1954
  34. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  35. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  36. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  37. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  38. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  39. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  40. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  41. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  42. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  43. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  44. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  45. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  46. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  47. Elon Musk born 1971
  48. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  49. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  50. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  51. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  52. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  53. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  54. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  55. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  56. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  57. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  58. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  59. Lady Gaga born 1986
  60. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  61. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  62. Madonna born 1958
  63. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  64. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  65. Kamala Harris born 1964
  66. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  67. Xi Jinping born 1953
  68. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  69. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  70. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  71. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  72. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  73. Naruhito born 1960
  74. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  75. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  76. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  77. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  78. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  79. Bob Dylan born 1941
  80. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  81. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  82. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  83. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  84. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  85. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  86. Justin Bieber born 1994
  87. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  88. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  89. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  90. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  91. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  92. Taylor Swift born 1989
  93. Charles III born 1948
  94. Kim Jong Un born 1984
  95. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  96. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  97. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  98. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  99. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  100. Beyoncé born 1981
  101. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  102. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  103. Eminem born 1972
  104. Selena Gomez born 1992
  105. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  106. Narendra Modi born 1950
  107. Rafael Correa born 1963
  108. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  109. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  110. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  111. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  112. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  113. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  114. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  115. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  116. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  117. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  118. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  119. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  120. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  121. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  122. Mark Zuckerberg born 1984
  123. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  124. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  125. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  126. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  127. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  128. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  129. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  130. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  131. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  132. Shinzo Abe 1954 – 2022
  133. Tim Berners-Lee born 1955
  134. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  135. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  136. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  137. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  138. Jackie Chan born 1954
  139. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  140. Robin Williams 1951 – 2014
  141. Celine Dion born 1968
  142. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  143. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  144. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  145. Guillermo Lasso born 1955
  146. Roger Federer born 1981
  147. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  148. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  149. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  150. Lana Del Rey born 1985