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Harvey Milk
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Harvey Milk

American politician and activist

Born 22 May 1930 · died 27 November 1978, aged 48
Also known as Harvey Bernard Milk

Who was alive at the same time as Harvey Milk?

  1. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  2. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  3. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  4. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  5. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  6. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  7. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  8. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  9. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  10. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  11. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  12. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  13. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  14. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  15. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  16. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  17. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968
  18. Harvey Milk, 1930 – 1978
  19. Joe Biden, born 1942
  20. Donald Trump, born 1946
  21. George W. Bush, born 1946
  22. Vladimir Putin, born 1952
  23. Michael Jackson, 1958 – 2009
  24. Barack Obama, born 1961

Drag across the timeline, or use the arrow keys, to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Dashed lines mark world events. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Harvey Milk was born, Adolf Hitler was 41, Albert Einstein was 51, Ronald Reagan was 19, Nelson Mandela was 11 and Mahatma Gandhi was 60.

When Harvey Milk died, Barack Obama was 17, Donald Trump was 32, Michael Jackson was 20, Vladimir Putin was 26 and Ronald Reagan was 67.

Born during Harvey Milk’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Bill Gates and Jimmy Wales.

Not quite contemporaries: Vladimir Lenin died about 6 years before Harvey Milk was born, Franz Kafka died about 6 years before Harvey Milk was born, Lionel Messi was born about 9 years after Harvey Milk died and Corbin Bleu was born about 11 years after Harvey Milk died.

What happened in Harvey Milk’s lifetime

Where Harvey Milk’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

3,689 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Harvey Milk. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1954.

  1. Barack Obama born 1961
  2. Donald Trump born 1946
  3. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  4. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  5. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  6. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  7. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  8. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  9. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  10. George W. Bush born 1946
  11. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  12. Joe Biden born 1942
  13. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  14. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  15. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  16. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  17. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  18. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  20. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  21. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  22. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  23. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  24. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  25. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  26. Bill Gates born 1955
  27. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  28. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  29. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  30. Shakira born 1977
  31. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  32. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  33. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  34. Bill Clinton born 1946
  35. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  36. Angela Merkel born 1954
  37. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  38. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  39. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  40. François Hollande born 1954
  41. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  42. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  43. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  44. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  45. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  46. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  47. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  48. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  49. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  50. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  51. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  52. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  53. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  54. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  55. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  56. Elon Musk born 1971
  57. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  58. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  59. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  60. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  61. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  62. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  63. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  64. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  65. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  66. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  67. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  68. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  69. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  70. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  71. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  72. Madonna born 1958
  73. Kamala Harris born 1964
  74. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  75. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  76. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  77. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  78. Xi Jinping born 1953
  79. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  80. Naruhito born 1960
  81. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  82. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  83. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  84. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  85. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  86. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  87. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  88. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  89. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  90. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  91. Bob Dylan born 1941
  92. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  93. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  94. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  95. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  96. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  97. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  98. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  99. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  100. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  101. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  102. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  103. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  104. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  105. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  106. Charles III born 1948
  107. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  108. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  109. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  110. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  111. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  112. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  113. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  114. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  115. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  116. Eminem born 1972
  117. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  118. Narendra Modi born 1950
  119. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  120. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  121. Rafael Correa born 1963
  122. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  123. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  124. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  125. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  126. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  127. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  128. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  129. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  130. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  131. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  132. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  133. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  134. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  135. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  136. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  137. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  138. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  139. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  140. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  141. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  142. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  143. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  144. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  145. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  146. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  147. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  148. Shinzo Abe 1954 – 2022
  149. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  150. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962