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Jayne Mansfield
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Jayne Mansfield

American actor

Born 19 April 1933 · died 29 June 1967, aged 34
Also known as Vera Jean Peers

Who was alive at the same time as Jayne Mansfield?

  1. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  2. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  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. Jayne Mansfield, 1933 – 1967
  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

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When Jayne Mansfield was born, Adolf Hitler was 43, Albert Einstein was 54, Ronald Reagan was 22, Nelson Mandela was 14 and Mahatma Gandhi was 63.

When Jayne Mansfield died, Barack Obama was 5, Donald Trump was 21, Michael Jackson was 8, Vladimir Putin was 14 and Ronald Reagan was 56.

Born during Jayne Mansfield’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 9 years before Jayne Mansfield was born, Thomas Edison died about 2 years before Jayne Mansfield was born, Franz Kafka died about 9 years before Jayne Mansfield was born and Shakira was born about 10 years after Jayne Mansfield died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

3,202 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Jayne Mansfield. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1950.

  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. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  18. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  19. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  20. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  21. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  22. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  23. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  24. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  25. Bill Gates born 1955
  26. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  27. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  28. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  29. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  30. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  31. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  32. Bill Clinton born 1946
  33. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  34. Angela Merkel born 1954
  35. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  36. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  37. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  38. François Hollande born 1954
  39. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  40. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  41. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  42. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  43. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  44. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  45. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  46. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  47. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  48. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  49. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  50. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  51. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  52. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  53. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  54. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  55. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  56. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  57. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  58. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  59. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  60. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  61. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  62. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  63. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  64. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  65. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  66. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  67. Madonna born 1958
  68. Kamala Harris born 1964
  69. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  70. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  71. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  72. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  73. Xi Jinping born 1953
  74. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  75. Naruhito born 1960
  76. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  77. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  78. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  79. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  80. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  81. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  82. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  83. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  84. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  85. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  86. Bob Dylan born 1941
  87. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  88. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  89. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  90. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  91. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  92. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  93. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  94. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  95. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  96. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  97. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  98. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  99. Charles III born 1948
  100. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  101. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  102. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  103. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  104. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  105. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  106. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  107. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  108. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  109. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  110. Narendra Modi born 1950
  111. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  112. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  113. Rafael Correa born 1963
  114. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  115. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  116. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  117. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  118. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  119. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  120. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  121. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  122. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  123. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  124. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  125. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  126. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  127. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  128. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  129. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  130. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  131. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  132. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  133. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  134. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  135. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  136. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  137. Shinzo Abe 1954 – 2022
  138. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  139. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  140. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  141. Tim Berners-Lee born 1955
  142. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  143. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  144. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  145. Jackie Chan born 1954
  146. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  147. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  148. Robin Williams 1951 – 2014
  149. Guillermo Lasso born 1955
  150. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994