Who Was Alive

Denzel Washington

American actor

Born 28 December 1954 · living, 71 as of September 2026

Who was alive at the same time as Denzel Washington?

  1. Winston Churchill
  2. Albert Einstein
  3. Pablo Picasso
  4. Charlie Chaplin
  5. Mao Zedong
  6. Salvador Dalí
  7. Ronald Reagan
  8. John F. Kennedy
  9. Nelson Mandela
  10. Elizabeth II
  11. Marilyn Monroe
  12. Martin Luther King Jr.
  13. Pope Francis
  14. Joe Biden
  15. Donald Trump
  16. George W. Bush
  17. Vladimir Putin
  18. Denzel Washington
  19. Steve Jobs
  20. Bill Gates
  21. Michael Jackson
  22. Barack Obama
  23. Jimmy Wales
  24. Shakira
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When Denzel Washington was born, Donald Trump was 8, Albert Einstein was 75, Vladimir Putin was 2, Ronald Reagan was 43 and Nelson Mandela was 36.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler died 9 years before Denzel Washington was born, Mahatma Gandhi died 6 years before Denzel Washington was born, Joseph Stalin died about a year before Denzel Washington was born and Rabindranath Tagore died 13 years before Denzel Washington was born.

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  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. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  20. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  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. Angela Merkel born 1954
  31. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  32. François Hollande born 1954
  33. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  34. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  35. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  36. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  37. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  38. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  39. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  40. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  41. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  42. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  43. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  44. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  45. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  46. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  47. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  48. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
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  52. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  53. Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  54. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
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  56. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  57. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  58. Lady Gaga born 1986
  59. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  60. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  61. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  62. Madonna born 1958
  63. Kamala Harris born 1964
  64. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  65. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  66. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  67. Xi Jinping born 1953
  68. Naruhito born 1960
  69. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  70. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  71. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  72. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  73. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  74. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  75. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  76. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  77. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  78. Bob Dylan born 1941
  79. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  80. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  81. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  82. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  83. Justin Bieber born 1994
  84. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  85. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  86. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  87. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  88. Taylor Swift born 1989
  89. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  90. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  91. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  92. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  93. Charles III born 1948
  94. Kim Jong-un born 1984
  95. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  96. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  97. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  98. Eminem born 1972
  99. Beyoncé born 1981
  100. Selena Gomez born 1992
  101. Leo XIV born 1955
  102. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  103. Narendra Modi born 1950
  104. Rafael Correa born 1963
  105. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  106. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
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  108. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  109. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  110. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  111. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  112. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  113. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  114. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
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  116. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  117. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  118. Mark Zuckerberg born 1984
  119. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  120. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  121. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  122. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  123. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  124. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  125. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  126. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  127. Shinzō Abe 1954 – 2022
  128. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  129. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  130. Isaac Asimov 1919–1920 – 1992
  131. Tim Berners-Lee born 1955
  132. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  133. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  134. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  135. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  136. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  137. Robin Williams 1951 – 2014
  138. Jackie Chan born 1954
  139. Kim Il-sung 1912 – 1994
  140. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  141. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  142. Guillermo Lasso born 1955
  143. Céline Dion born 1968
  144. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  145. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  146. Roger Federer born 1981
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  148. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
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