Who Was Alive

Julia Roberts

American actress

Born 28 October 1967 · living, 58 as of September 2026

Who was alive at the same time as Julia Roberts?

  1. Pablo Picasso
  2. Charlie Chaplin
  3. Charles de Gaulle
  4. Mao Zedong
  5. Salvador Dalí
  6. Ronald Reagan
  7. Nelson Mandela
  8. Elizabeth II
  9. Martin Luther King Jr.
  10. Pope Francis
  11. Joe Biden
  12. Donald Trump
  13. George W. Bush
  14. Bill Clinton
  15. Vladimir Putin
  16. Steve Jobs
  17. Bill Gates
  18. Michael Jackson
  19. Barack Obama
  20. Jimmy Wales
  21. Julia Roberts
  22. Shakira
  23. Lionel Messi
  24. Corbin Bleu
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When Julia Roberts was born, Barack Obama was 6, Donald Trump was 21, Michael Jackson was 9, Vladimir Putin was 15 and Ronald Reagan was 56.

Born during Julia Roberts’s lifetime: Shakira, Lionel Messi, Corbin Bleu, Basshunter, Cristiano Ronaldo, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Elon Musk and Emmanuel Macron.

Not quite contemporaries: Albert Einstein died 12 years before Julia Roberts was born, Joseph Stalin died 14 years before Julia Roberts was born, Winston Churchill died 2 years before Julia Roberts was born and John F. Kennedy died 4 years before Julia Roberts was born.

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  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. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  10. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  11. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  12. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  13. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  14. Bill Gates born 1955
  15. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  16. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  17. Shakira born 1977
  18. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  19. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  20. Lionel Messi born 1987
  21. Corbin Bleu born 1989
  22. Bill Clinton born 1946
  23. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  24. Basshunter born 1984
  25. Angela Merkel born 1954
  26. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  27. François Hollande born 1954
  28. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  29. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  30. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  31. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  32. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  33. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  34. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
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  38. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
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