Who Was Alive
James Marsden
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James Marsden

American actor

Born 18 September 1973 · living, 53 as of November 2026
Also known as James Paul Marsden

Who was alive at the same time as James Marsden?

  1. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  2. Mao Zedong, 1893 – 1976
  3. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  4. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  5. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  6. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  7. Neil Armstrong, 1930 – 2012
  8. Pope Francis, 1936 – 2025
  9. Joe Biden, born 1942
  10. Donald Trump, born 1946
  11. George W. Bush, born 1946
  12. Bill Clinton, born 1946
  13. Vladimir Putin, born 1952
  14. Angela Merkel, born 1954
  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. James Marsden, born 1973
  21. Shakira, born 1977
  22. Basshunter, born 1984
  23. Lionel Messi, born 1987
  24. Corbin Bleu, born 1989

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When James Marsden was born, Barack Obama was 12, Donald Trump was 27, Michael Jackson was 15, Vladimir Putin was 20 and Ronald Reagan was 62.

Born during James Marsden’s lifetime: Shakira, Lionel Messi, Corbin Bleu, Basshunter, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Cristiano Ronaldo, Emmanuel Macron and Lady Gaga.

Not quite contemporaries: Pablo Picasso died months before James Marsden was born, Winston Churchill died about 8 years before James Marsden was born, John F. Kennedy died about 10 years before James Marsden was born and Martin Luther King Jr. died about 5 years before James Marsden was born.

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Where James Marsden’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

3,763 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as James Marsden. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 2000.

  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. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  10. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  11. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  12. Bill Gates born 1955
  13. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  14. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  15. Shakira born 1977
  16. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  17. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  18. Lionel Messi born 1987
  19. Corbin Bleu born 1989
  20. Bill Clinton born 1946
  21. Basshunter born 1984
  22. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  23. Angela Merkel born 1954
  24. François Hollande born 1954
  25. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  26. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  27. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  28. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  29. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  30. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  31. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  32. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  33. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  34. Elon Musk born 1971
  35. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  36. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  37. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  38. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  39. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  40. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  41. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  42. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  43. Lady Gaga born 1986
  44. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  45. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  46. Madonna born 1958
  47. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  48. Kamala Harris born 1964
  49. Xi Jinping born 1953
  50. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  51. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  52. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  53. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  54. Naruhito born 1960
  55. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  56. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  57. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  58. Bob Dylan born 1941
  59. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  60. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  61. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  62. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  63. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  64. Justin Bieber born 1994
  65. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  66. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  67. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  68. Taylor Swift born 1989
  69. Charles III born 1948
  70. Kim Jong Un born 1984
  71. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  72. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  73. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  74. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  75. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  76. Beyoncé born 1981
  77. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  78. Eminem born 1972
  79. Selena Gomez born 1992
  80. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  81. Narendra Modi born 1950
  82. Rafael Correa born 1963
  83. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  84. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  85. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  86. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  87. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  88. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  89. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  90. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  91. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  92. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  93. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  94. Mark Zuckerberg born 1984
  95. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  96. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  97. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  98. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  99. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  100. Shinzo Abe 1954 – 2022
  101. Tim Berners-Lee born 1955
  102. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  103. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  104. Jackie Chan born 1954
  105. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  106. Robin Williams 1951 – 2014
  107. Celine Dion born 1968
  108. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  109. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  110. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  111. Guillermo Lasso born 1955
  112. Roger Federer born 1981
  113. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  114. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  115. Lana Del Rey born 1985
  116. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  117. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  118. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  119. Alexander Lukashenko born 1954
  120. Neymar born 1992
  121. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  122. Woody Allen born 1935
  123. Scarlett Johansson born 1984
  124. Rihanna born 1988
  125. Malala Yousafzai born 1997
  126. Tony Blair born 1953
  127. Greta Thunberg born 2003
  128. Yasser Arafat 1929 – 2004
  129. Arnold Schwarzenegger born 1947
  130. Rafael Nadal born 1986
  131. Novak Djokovic born 1987
  132. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  133. Ban Ki-moon born 1944
  134. David Cameron born 1966
  135. Linus Torvalds born 1969
  136. Brigitte Bardot 1934 – 2025
  137. Diana, Princess of Wales 1961 – 1997
  138. Hebe Camargo 1929 – 2012
  139. Audrey Hepburn 1929 – 1993
  140. Umberto Eco 1932 – 2016
  141. Boris Johnson born 1964
  142. Bashar al-Assad born 1965
  143. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva born 1945
  144. Benazir Bhutto 1953 – 2007
  145. Jair Bolsonaro born 1955
  146. Leonardo DiCaprio born 1974
  147. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  148. Paul McCartney born 1942
  149. Anggun born 1974
  150. Stephen King born 1947