Robert F. Kennedy

All 1,034 contemporaries we track

1. Barack Obama born 1961
2. Donald Trump born 1946
3. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
4. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
5. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
6. Vladimir Putin born 1952
7. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
8. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
9. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
10. George W. Bush born 1946
11. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
12. Joe Biden born 1942
13. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
14. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
15. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
16. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
17. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
18. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
19. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
20. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
21. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
22. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
23. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
24. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
25. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
26. Bill Gates born 1955
27. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
28. Jimmy Wales born 1966
29. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
30. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
31. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
32. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
33. Bill Clinton born 1946
34. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
35. Angela Merkel born 1954
36. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
37. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
38. François Hollande born 1954
39. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
40. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
41. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
42. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
43. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
44. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
45. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
46. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
47. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
48. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
49. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
50. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
51. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
52. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
53. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
54. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
55. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
56. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
57. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
58. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
59. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
60. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
61. Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
62. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
63. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
64. Hillary Clinton born 1947
65. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
66. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
67. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
68. Madonna born 1958
69. Kamala Harris born 1964
70. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
71. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
72. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
73. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
74. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
75. Xi Jinping born 1953
76. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
77. Naruhito born 1960
78. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
79. Noam Chomsky born 1928
80. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
81. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
82. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
83. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
84. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
85. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
86. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
87. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
88. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
89. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
90. Bob Dylan born 1941
91. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
92. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
93. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
94. Pelé 1940 – 2022
95. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
96. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
97. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
98. J. K. Rowling born 1965
99. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
100. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
101. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
102. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
103. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
104. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
105. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
106. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
107. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
108. Charles III born 1948
109. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
110. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
111. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
112. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
113. Leo XIV born 1955
114. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
115. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
116. Narendra Modi born 1950
117. Rafael Correa born 1963
118. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
119. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
120. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
121. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
122. Steven Spielberg born 1946
123. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
124. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
125. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
126. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
127. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
128. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
129. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
130. Tenzin Gyatso born 1935
131. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
132. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
133. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
134. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
135. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
136. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
137. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
138. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
139. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
140. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
141. Shinzō Abe 1954 – 2022
142. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
143. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
144. Isaac Asimov 1919–1920 – 1992
145. Tim Berners-Lee born 1955
146. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
147. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
148. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
149. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
150. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007

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