Who Was Alive
Katie Holmes
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Katie Holmes

American actor

Born 18 December 1978 · living, 47 as of October 2026
Also known as Kate Noelle Holmes, Katherine Noelle Holmes

Who was alive at the same time as Katie Holmes?

  1. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  2. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  3. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  4. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  5. Neil Armstrong, 1930 – 2012
  6. Pope Francis, 1936 – 2025
  7. Joe Biden, born 1942
  8. Donald Trump, born 1946
  9. George W. Bush, born 1946
  10. Bill Clinton, born 1946
  11. Vladimir Putin, born 1952
  12. Angela Merkel, born 1954
  13. François Hollande, born 1954
  14. Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011
  15. Bill Gates, born 1955
  16. Michael Jackson, 1958 – 2009
  17. Barack Obama, born 1961
  18. Jimmy Wales, born 1966
  19. Shakira, born 1977
  20. Volodymyr Zelenskyy, born 1978
  21. Katie Holmes, born 1978
  22. Basshunter, born 1984
  23. Lionel Messi, born 1987
  24. Corbin Bleu, born 1989

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 Katie Holmes was born, Barack Obama was 17, Donald Trump was 32, Michael Jackson was 20, Vladimir Putin was 26 and Ronald Reagan was 67.

Born during Katie Holmes’s lifetime: Lionel Messi, Corbin Bleu, Basshunter, Cristiano Ronaldo, Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift and Kim Jong Un.

Not quite contemporaries: Pablo Picasso died about 5 years before Katie Holmes was born, Winston Churchill died about 13 years before Katie Holmes was born, Charlie Chaplin died about a year before Katie Holmes was born and Martin Luther King Jr. died about 10 years before Katie Holmes was born.

What happened in Katie Holmes’s lifetime

Where Katie Holmes’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

3,599 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Katie Holmes. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 2002.

  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. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  10. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  11. Bill Gates born 1955
  12. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  13. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  14. Shakira born 1977
  15. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  16. Lionel Messi born 1987
  17. Corbin Bleu born 1989
  18. Bill Clinton born 1946
  19. Basshunter born 1984
  20. Angela Merkel born 1954
  21. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  22. François Hollande born 1954
  23. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  24. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  25. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  26. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  27. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  28. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  29. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  30. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  31. Elon Musk born 1971
  32. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  33. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  34. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  35. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  36. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  37. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  38. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  39. Lady Gaga born 1986
  40. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  41. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  42. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  43. Madonna born 1958
  44. Kamala Harris born 1964
  45. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  46. Xi Jinping born 1953
  47. Naruhito born 1960
  48. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  49. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  50. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  51. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  52. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  53. Bob Dylan born 1941
  54. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  55. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  56. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  57. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  58. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  59. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  60. Justin Bieber born 1994
  61. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  62. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  63. Taylor Swift born 1989
  64. Charles III born 1948
  65. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  66. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  67. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  68. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  69. Kim Jong Un born 1984
  70. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  71. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  72. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  73. Eminem born 1972
  74. Beyoncé born 1981
  75. Selena Gomez born 1992
  76. Narendra Modi born 1950
  77. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  78. Rafael Correa born 1963
  79. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  80. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  81. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  82. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  83. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  84. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  85. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  86. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  87. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  88. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  89. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  90. Mark Zuckerberg born 1984
  91. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  92. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  93. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  94. Shinzo Abe 1954 – 2022
  95. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  96. Tim Berners-Lee born 1955
  97. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  98. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  99. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  100. Jackie Chan born 1954
  101. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  102. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  103. Robin Williams 1951 – 2014
  104. Guillermo Lasso born 1955
  105. Celine Dion born 1968
  106. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  107. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  108. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  109. Roger Federer born 1981
  110. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  111. Lana Del Rey born 1985
  112. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  113. Alexander Lukashenko born 1954
  114. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  115. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  116. Woody Allen born 1935
  117. Neymar born 1992
  118. Tony Blair born 1953
  119. Rihanna born 1988
  120. Malala Yousafzai born 1997
  121. Scarlett Johansson born 1984
  122. Rafael Nadal born 1986
  123. Yasser Arafat 1929 – 2004
  124. Greta Thunberg born 2003
  125. Ban Ki-moon born 1944
  126. Arnold Schwarzenegger born 1947
  127. David Cameron born 1966
  128. Linus Torvalds born 1969
  129. Novak Djokovic born 1987
  130. Brigitte Bardot 1934 – 2025
  131. Hebe Camargo 1929 – 2012
  132. Umberto Eco 1932 – 2016
  133. Diana, Princess of Wales 1961 – 1997
  134. Boris Johnson born 1964
  135. Bashar al-Assad born 1965
  136. Audrey Hepburn 1929 – 1993
  137. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva born 1945
  138. Benazir Bhutto 1953 – 2007
  139. Jair Bolsonaro born 1955
  140. Paul McCartney born 1942
  141. Anggun born 1974
  142. Leonardo DiCaprio born 1974
  143. Agnez Mo born 1986
  144. Stephen King born 1947
  145. Theresa May born 1956
  146. Johnny Depp born 1963
  147. Brad Pitt born 1963
  148. Maya Angelou 1928 – 2014
  149. Zinedine Zidane born 1972
  150. Britney Spears born 1981