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Ethan Hawke
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Ethan Hawke

American actor and writer

Born 6 November 1970 · living, 55 as of October 2026
Also known as Ethan Green Hawke

Who was alive at the same time as Ethan Hawke?

  1. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  2. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  3. Charles de Gaulle, 1890 – 1970
  4. Mao Zedong, 1893 – 1976
  5. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  6. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  7. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  8. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  9. Pope Francis, 1936 – 2025
  10. Joe Biden, born 1942
  11. Donald Trump, born 1946
  12. George W. Bush, born 1946
  13. Bill Clinton, born 1946
  14. Vladimir Putin, born 1952
  15. Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011
  16. Bill Gates, born 1955
  17. Michael Jackson, 1958 – 2009
  18. Barack Obama, born 1961
  19. Jimmy Wales, born 1966
  20. Ethan Hawke, born 1970
  21. Shakira, born 1977
  22. Basshunter, born 1984
  23. Lionel Messi, born 1987
  24. Corbin Bleu, born 1989

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When Ethan Hawke was born, Barack Obama was 9, Donald Trump was 24, Michael Jackson was 12, Vladimir Putin was 18 and Ronald Reagan was 59.

Born during Ethan Hawke’s lifetime: Shakira, Lionel Messi, Corbin Bleu, Basshunter, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Cristiano Ronaldo, Elon Musk and Emmanuel Macron.

Not quite contemporaries: Winston Churchill died about 5 years before Ethan Hawke was born, John F. Kennedy died about 7 years before Ethan Hawke was born, Martin Luther King Jr. died about 2 years before Ethan Hawke was born and Marilyn Monroe died about 8 years before Ethan Hawke was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

3,771 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Ethan Hawke. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1998.

  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. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  11. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  12. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  13. Bill Gates born 1955
  14. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  15. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  16. Shakira born 1977
  17. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  18. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  19. Lionel Messi born 1987
  20. Corbin Bleu born 1989
  21. Bill Clinton born 1946
  22. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  23. Basshunter born 1984
  24. Angela Merkel born 1954
  25. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  26. François Hollande born 1954
  27. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  28. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  29. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  30. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  31. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  32. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  33. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  34. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  35. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  36. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  37. Elon Musk born 1971
  38. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  39. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  40. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  41. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  42. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  43. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  44. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  45. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  46. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  47. Lady Gaga born 1986
  48. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  49. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  50. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  51. Madonna born 1958
  52. Kamala Harris born 1964
  53. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  54. Xi Jinping born 1953
  55. Naruhito born 1960
  56. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  57. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  58. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  59. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  60. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  61. Bob Dylan born 1941
  62. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  63. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  64. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  65. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  66. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  67. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  68. Justin Bieber born 1994
  69. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  70. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  71. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  72. Taylor Swift born 1989
  73. Charles III born 1948
  74. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  75. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  76. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  77. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  78. Kim Jong Un born 1984
  79. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  80. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  81. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  82. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  83. Eminem born 1972
  84. Beyoncé born 1981
  85. Selena Gomez born 1992
  86. Narendra Modi born 1950
  87. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  88. Rafael Correa born 1963
  89. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  90. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  91. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  92. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  93. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  94. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  95. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  96. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  97. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  98. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  99. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  100. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  101. Mark Zuckerberg born 1984
  102. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  103. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  104. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  105. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  106. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  107. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  108. Shinzo Abe 1954 – 2022
  109. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  110. Tim Berners-Lee born 1955
  111. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  112. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  113. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  114. Jackie Chan born 1954
  115. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  116. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  117. Robin Williams 1951 – 2014
  118. Guillermo Lasso born 1955
  119. Celine Dion born 1968
  120. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  121. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  122. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  123. Roger Federer born 1981
  124. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  125. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  126. Lana Del Rey born 1985
  127. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  128. Alexander Lukashenko born 1954
  129. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  130. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  131. Woody Allen born 1935
  132. Neymar born 1992
  133. Tony Blair born 1953
  134. Rihanna born 1988
  135. Malala Yousafzai born 1997
  136. Scarlett Johansson born 1984
  137. Rafael Nadal born 1986
  138. Yasser Arafat 1929 – 2004
  139. Greta Thunberg born 2003
  140. Ban Ki-moon born 1944
  141. Arnold Schwarzenegger born 1947
  142. David Cameron born 1966
  143. Linus Torvalds born 1969
  144. Novak Djokovic born 1987
  145. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  146. Brigitte Bardot 1934 – 2025
  147. Hebe Camargo 1929 – 2012
  148. Umberto Eco 1932 – 2016
  149. Diana, Princess of Wales 1961 – 1997
  150. Boris Johnson born 1964