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Kurt Russell
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Kurt Russell

American actor

Born 17 March 1951 · living, 75 as of October 2026

Who was alive at the same time as Kurt Russell?

  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. Kurt Russell, born 1951
  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 Kurt Russell was born, Donald Trump was 4, Albert Einstein was 72, Ronald Reagan was 40, Nelson Mandela was 32 and George W. Bush was 4.

Born during Kurt Russell’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 6 years before Kurt Russell was born, Mahatma Gandhi died about 3 years before Kurt Russell was born, Sigmund Freud died about 12 years before Kurt Russell was born and Mustafa Kemal Atatürk died about 13 years before Kurt Russell was born.

What happened in Kurt Russell’s lifetime

Where Kurt Russell’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

4,078 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Kurt Russell. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1989.

  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. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  39. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  40. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  41. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  42. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  43. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  44. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  45. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  46. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  47. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  48. Elon Musk born 1971
  49. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  50. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  51. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  52. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  53. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  54. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  55. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  56. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  57. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  58. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  59. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  60. Lady Gaga born 1986
  61. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  62. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  63. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  64. Madonna born 1958
  65. Kamala Harris born 1964
  66. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  67. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  68. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  69. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  70. Xi Jinping born 1953
  71. Naruhito born 1960
  72. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  73. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  74. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  75. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  76. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  77. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  78. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  79. Bob Dylan born 1941
  80. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  81. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  82. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  83. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  84. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  85. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  86. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  87. Justin Bieber born 1994
  88. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  89. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  90. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  91. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  92. Taylor Swift born 1989
  93. Charles III born 1948
  94. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  95. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  96. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  97. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  98. Kim Jong Un born 1984
  99. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  100. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  101. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  102. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  103. Eminem born 1972
  104. Beyoncé born 1981
  105. Selena Gomez born 1992
  106. Narendra Modi born 1950
  107. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  108. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  109. Rafael Correa born 1963
  110. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  111. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  112. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  113. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  114. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  115. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  116. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  117. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  118. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  119. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  120. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  121. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  122. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  123. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  124. Mark Zuckerberg born 1984
  125. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  126. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  127. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  128. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  129. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  130. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  131. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  132. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  133. Shinzo Abe 1954 – 2022
  134. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  135. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  136. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  137. Tim Berners-Lee born 1955
  138. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  139. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  140. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  141. Jackie Chan born 1954
  142. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  143. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  144. Robin Williams 1951 – 2014
  145. Guillermo Lasso born 1955
  146. Celine Dion born 1968
  147. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  148. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  149. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  150. Roger Federer born 1981