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Hubert Humphrey
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Hubert Humphrey

American politician who served as Vice President of the United States

Born 27 May 1911 · died 13 January 1978, aged 66
Also known as HHH, Hubert Humphrey Jr.

Who was alive at the same time as Hubert Humphrey?

  1. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  2. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  3. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  4. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  5. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  6. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  7. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  8. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  9. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  10. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  11. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  12. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  13. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  14. Hubert Humphrey, 1911 – 1978
  15. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  16. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  17. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  18. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968
  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 Hubert Humphrey was born, Adolf Hitler was 22, Albert Einstein was 32, Ronald Reagan was under a year old, Vladimir Lenin was 41 and Mahatma Gandhi was 41.

When Hubert Humphrey died, Barack Obama was 16, Donald Trump was 31, Michael Jackson was 19, Vladimir Putin was 25 and Ronald Reagan was 66.

Born during Hubert Humphrey’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush, Joe Biden and Elizabeth II.

Not quite contemporaries: Leo Tolstoy died about a year before Hubert Humphrey was born, Friedrich Nietzsche died about 11 years before Hubert Humphrey was born, Mark Twain died about a year before Hubert Humphrey was born and Anton Chekhov died about 7 years before Hubert Humphrey was born.

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Where Hubert Humphrey’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

3,873 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Hubert Humphrey. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1945.

  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. George W. Bush born 1946
  12. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  13. Joe Biden born 1942
  14. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  15. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  16. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  17. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  18. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  19. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  21. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  22. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  23. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  24. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  25. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  26. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  27. Bill Gates born 1955
  28. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  29. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  30. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  31. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  32. Shakira born 1977
  33. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  34. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  35. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  36. Bill Clinton born 1946
  37. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  38. Angela Merkel born 1954
  39. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  40. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  41. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  42. François Hollande born 1954
  43. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  44. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  45. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  46. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  47. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  48. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  49. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  50. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  51. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  52. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  53. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  54. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  55. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  56. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  57. Elon Musk born 1971
  58. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  59. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  60. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  61. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  62. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  63. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  64. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  65. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  66. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  67. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  68. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  69. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  70. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  71. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  72. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  73. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  74. Madonna born 1958
  75. Kamala Harris born 1964
  76. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  77. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  78. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  79. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  80. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  81. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  82. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  83. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  84. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  85. Xi Jinping born 1953
  86. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  87. Naruhito born 1960
  88. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  89. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  90. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  91. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  92. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  93. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  94. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  95. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  96. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  97. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  98. Bob Dylan born 1941
  99. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  100. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  101. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  102. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  103. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  104. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  105. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  106. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  107. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  108. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  109. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  110. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  111. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  112. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  113. Charles III born 1948
  114. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  115. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  116. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  117. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  118. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  119. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  120. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  121. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  122. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  123. Eminem born 1972
  124. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  125. Narendra Modi born 1950
  126. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  127. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  128. Rafael Correa born 1963
  129. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  130. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  131. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  132. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  133. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  134. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  135. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  136. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  137. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  138. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  139. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  140. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  141. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  142. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  143. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  144. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  145. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  146. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  147. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  148. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  149. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  150. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971