Who Was Alive
Helen Hayes
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Helen Hayes

American actor

Born 10 October 1900 · died 17 March 1993, aged 92
Also known as Helen Hayes Brown, Helen Hayes MacArthur

Who was alive at the same time as Helen Hayes?

  1. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  2. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  3. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  4. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  5. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  6. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  7. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  8. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  9. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  10. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  11. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  12. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  13. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  14. Helen Hayes, 1900 – 1993
  15. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  16. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  17. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  18. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  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 Helen Hayes was born, Adolf Hitler was 11, Albert Einstein was 21, Vladimir Lenin was 30, Mahatma Gandhi was 31 and Leo Tolstoy was 72.

When Helen Hayes died, Barack Obama was 31, Donald Trump was 46, Michael Jackson was 34, Vladimir Putin was 40 and Ronald Reagan was 82.

Born during Helen Hayes’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush and Joe Biden.

Not quite contemporaries: Vincent van Gogh died about 10 years before Helen Hayes was born, Friedrich Nietzsche died months before Helen Hayes was born, Otto von Bismarck died about 2 years before Helen Hayes was born and Louis Pasteur died about 5 years before Helen Hayes was born.

What happened in Helen Hayes’s lifetime

Where Helen Hayes’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

4,548 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Helen Hayes. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1947.

  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. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  9. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  10. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  11. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  12. George W. Bush born 1946
  13. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  14. Joe Biden born 1942
  15. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  16. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  17. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  18. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  19. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  21. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  22. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  23. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  24. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  25. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  26. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  27. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  28. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  29. Bill Gates born 1955
  30. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  31. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  32. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  33. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  34. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  35. Shakira born 1977
  36. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  37. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  38. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  39. Lionel Messi born 1987
  40. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  41. Corbin Bleu born 1989
  42. Bill Clinton born 1946
  43. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  44. Basshunter born 1984
  45. Angela Merkel born 1954
  46. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  47. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  48. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  49. François Hollande born 1954
  50. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  51. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  52. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  53. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  54. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  55. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  56. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  57. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  58. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  59. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  60. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  61. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  62. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  63. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  64. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  65. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  66. Elon Musk born 1971
  67. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  68. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  69. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  70. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  71. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  72. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  73. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  74. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  75. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  76. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  77. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  78. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  79. Lady Gaga born 1986
  80. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  81. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  82. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  83. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  84. Madonna born 1958
  85. Kamala Harris born 1964
  86. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  87. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  88. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  89. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  90. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  91. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  92. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  93. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  94. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  95. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  96. Xi Jinping born 1953
  97. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  98. Naruhito born 1960
  99. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  100. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  101. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  102. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  103. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  104. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  105. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  106. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  107. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  108. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  109. Bob Dylan born 1941
  110. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  111. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  112. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  113. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  114. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  115. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  116. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  117. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  118. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  119. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  120. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  121. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  122. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  123. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  124. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  125. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  126. Taylor Swift born 1989
  127. Charles III born 1948
  128. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  129. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  130. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  131. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  132. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  133. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  134. Kim Jong Un born 1984
  135. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  136. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  137. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  138. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  139. Eminem born 1972
  140. Beyoncé born 1981
  141. Selena Gomez born 1992
  142. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  143. Narendra Modi born 1950
  144. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  145. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  146. Rafael Correa born 1963
  147. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  148. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  149. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  150. Angelina Jolie born 1975