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John de Lancie
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John de Lancie

American actor

Born 20 March 1948 · living, 78 as of October 2026

Who was alive at the same time as John de Lancie?

  1. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  2. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  3. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  4. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  5. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  6. Mao Zedong, 1893 – 1976
  7. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  8. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  9. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  10. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  11. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  12. Marilyn Monroe, 1926 – 1962
  13. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968
  14. Pope Francis, 1936 – 2025
  15. Joe Biden, born 1942
  16. Donald Trump, born 1946
  17. George W. Bush, born 1946
  18. John de Lancie, born 1948
  19. Vladimir Putin, born 1952
  20. Bill Gates, born 1955
  21. Michael Jackson, 1958 – 2009
  22. Barack Obama, born 1961
  23. Jimmy Wales, born 1966
  24. Shakira, born 1977

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When John de Lancie was born, Donald Trump was 1, Albert Einstein was 69, Ronald Reagan was 37, Nelson Mandela was 29 and George W. Bush was 1.

Born during John de Lancie’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Bill Gates, Jimmy Wales, Shakira, Steve Jobs and Lionel Messi.

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler died about 3 years before John de Lancie was born, Mahatma Gandhi died months before John de Lancie was born, Sigmund Freud died about 9 years before John de Lancie was born and Mustafa Kemal Atatürk died about 10 years before John de Lancie was born.

What happened in John de Lancie’s lifetime

Where John de Lancie’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

4,121 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as John de Lancie. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1987.

  1. Barack Obama born 1961
  2. Donald Trump born 1946
  3. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  4. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  5. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  6. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  7. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  8. George W. Bush born 1946
  9. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  10. Joe Biden born 1942
  11. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  12. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  13. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  14. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  15. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  16. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  17. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  18. Bill Gates born 1955
  19. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  20. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  21. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  22. Shakira born 1977
  23. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  24. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  25. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  26. Lionel Messi born 1987
  27. Corbin Bleu born 1989
  28. Bill Clinton born 1946
  29. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  30. Basshunter born 1984
  31. Angela Merkel born 1954
  32. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  33. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  34. François Hollande born 1954
  35. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  36. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  37. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  38. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  39. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  40. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  41. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  42. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  43. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  44. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  45. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  46. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  47. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  48. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  49. Elon Musk born 1971
  50. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  51. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  52. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  53. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  54. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  55. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  56. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  57. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  58. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  59. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  60. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  61. Lady Gaga born 1986
  62. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  63. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  64. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  65. Madonna born 1958
  66. Kamala Harris born 1964
  67. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  68. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  69. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  70. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  71. Xi Jinping born 1953
  72. Naruhito born 1960
  73. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  74. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  75. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  76. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  77. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  78. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  79. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  80. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  81. Bob Dylan born 1941
  82. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  83. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  84. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  85. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  86. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  87. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  88. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  89. Justin Bieber born 1994
  90. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  91. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  92. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  93. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  94. Taylor Swift born 1989
  95. Charles III born 1948
  96. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  97. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  98. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  99. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  100. Kim Jong Un born 1984
  101. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  102. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  103. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  104. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  105. Eminem born 1972
  106. Beyoncé born 1981
  107. Selena Gomez born 1992
  108. Narendra Modi born 1950
  109. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  110. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  111. Rafael Correa born 1963
  112. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  113. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  114. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  115. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  116. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  117. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  118. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  119. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  120. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  121. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  122. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  123. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  124. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  125. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  126. Mark Zuckerberg born 1984
  127. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  128. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  129. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  130. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  131. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  132. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  133. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  134. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  135. Shinzo Abe 1954 – 2022
  136. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  137. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  138. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  139. Tim Berners-Lee born 1955
  140. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  141. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  142. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  143. Jackie Chan born 1954
  144. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  145. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  146. Robin Williams 1951 – 2014
  147. Guillermo Lasso born 1955
  148. Celine Dion born 1968
  149. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  150. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008