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Maggie Gyllenhaal
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Maggie Gyllenhaal

American actor and singer

Born 16 November 1977 · living, 48 as of October 2026
Also known as Margaret Ruth Gyllenhaal

Who was alive at the same time as Maggie Gyllenhaal?

  1. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  2. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  3. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  4. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  5. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  6. Neil Armstrong, 1930 – 2012
  7. Pope Francis, 1936 – 2025
  8. Joe Biden, born 1942
  9. Donald Trump, born 1946
  10. George W. Bush, born 1946
  11. Bill Clinton, born 1946
  12. Vladimir Putin, born 1952
  13. Angela Merkel, born 1954
  14. François Hollande, born 1954
  15. Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011
  16. Bill Gates, born 1955
  17. Michael Jackson, 1958 – 2009
  18. Barack Obama, born 1961
  19. Jimmy Wales, born 1966
  20. Shakira, born 1977
  21. Maggie Gyllenhaal, born 1977
  22. Basshunter, born 1984
  23. Lionel Messi, born 1987
  24. Corbin Bleu, born 1989

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When Maggie Gyllenhaal was born, Barack Obama was 16, Donald Trump was 31, Michael Jackson was 19, Vladimir Putin was 25 and Ronald Reagan was 66.

Born during Maggie Gyllenhaal’s lifetime: Lionel Messi, Corbin Bleu, Basshunter, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Cristiano Ronaldo, Emmanuel Macron, Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber.

Not quite contemporaries: Pablo Picasso died about 4 years before Maggie Gyllenhaal was born, Winston Churchill died about 12 years before Maggie Gyllenhaal was born, John F. Kennedy died about 14 years before Maggie Gyllenhaal was born and Martin Luther King Jr. died about 9 years before Maggie Gyllenhaal was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

3,617 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Maggie Gyllenhaal. 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. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  10. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  11. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  12. Bill Gates born 1955
  13. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  14. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  15. Shakira born 1977
  16. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  17. Lionel Messi born 1987
  18. Corbin Bleu born 1989
  19. Bill Clinton born 1946
  20. Basshunter born 1984
  21. Angela Merkel born 1954
  22. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  23. François Hollande born 1954
  24. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  25. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  26. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  27. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  28. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  29. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  30. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  31. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  32. Elon Musk born 1971
  33. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  34. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  35. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  36. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  37. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  38. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  39. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  40. Lady Gaga born 1986
  41. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  42. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  43. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  44. Madonna born 1958
  45. Kamala Harris born 1964
  46. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  47. Xi Jinping born 1953
  48. Naruhito born 1960
  49. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  50. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  51. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  52. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  53. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  54. Bob Dylan born 1941
  55. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  56. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  57. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  58. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  59. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  60. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  61. Justin Bieber born 1994
  62. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  63. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  64. Taylor Swift born 1989
  65. Charles III born 1948
  66. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  67. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  68. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  69. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  70. Kim Jong Un born 1984
  71. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  72. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  73. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  74. Eminem born 1972
  75. Beyoncé born 1981
  76. Selena Gomez born 1992
  77. Narendra Modi born 1950
  78. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  79. Rafael Correa born 1963
  80. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  81. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  82. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  83. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  84. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  85. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  86. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  87. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  88. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  89. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  90. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  91. Mark Zuckerberg born 1984
  92. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  93. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  94. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  95. Shinzo Abe 1954 – 2022
  96. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  97. Tim Berners-Lee born 1955
  98. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  99. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  100. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  101. Jackie Chan born 1954
  102. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  103. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  104. Robin Williams 1951 – 2014
  105. Guillermo Lasso born 1955
  106. Celine Dion born 1968
  107. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  108. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  109. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  110. Roger Federer born 1981
  111. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  112. Lana Del Rey born 1985
  113. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  114. Alexander Lukashenko born 1954
  115. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  116. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  117. Woody Allen born 1935
  118. Neymar born 1992
  119. Tony Blair born 1953
  120. Rihanna born 1988
  121. Malala Yousafzai born 1997
  122. Scarlett Johansson born 1984
  123. Rafael Nadal born 1986
  124. Yasser Arafat 1929 – 2004
  125. Greta Thunberg born 2003
  126. Ban Ki-moon born 1944
  127. Arnold Schwarzenegger born 1947
  128. David Cameron born 1966
  129. Linus Torvalds born 1969
  130. Novak Djokovic born 1987
  131. Brigitte Bardot 1934 – 2025
  132. Hebe Camargo 1929 – 2012
  133. Umberto Eco 1932 – 2016
  134. Diana, Princess of Wales 1961 – 1997
  135. Boris Johnson born 1964
  136. Bashar al-Assad born 1965
  137. Audrey Hepburn 1929 – 1993
  138. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva born 1945
  139. Benazir Bhutto 1953 – 2007
  140. Jair Bolsonaro born 1955
  141. Paul McCartney born 1942
  142. Anggun born 1974
  143. Leonardo DiCaprio born 1974
  144. Agnez Mo born 1986
  145. Stephen King born 1947
  146. Theresa May born 1956
  147. Johnny Depp born 1963
  148. Brad Pitt born 1963
  149. Maya Angelou 1928 – 2014
  150. Zinedine Zidane born 1972