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Rock Hudson
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Rock Hudson

American actor

Born 17 November 1925 · died 2 October 1985, aged 59

Who was alive at the same time as Rock Hudson?

  1. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  2. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  3. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  4. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  5. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  6. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  7. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  8. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  9. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  10. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  11. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  12. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  13. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  14. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  15. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  16. Rock Hudson, 1925 – 1985
  17. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  18. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968
  19. Joe Biden, born 1942
  20. Donald Trump, born 1946
  21. George W. Bush, born 1946
  22. Vladimir Putin, born 1952
  23. Michael Jackson, 1958 – 2009
  24. Barack Obama, born 1961

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 Rock Hudson was born, Adolf Hitler was 36, Albert Einstein was 46, Ronald Reagan was 14, Nelson Mandela was 7 and Mahatma Gandhi was 56.

When Rock Hudson died, Barack Obama was 24, Donald Trump was 39, Michael Jackson was 27, Vladimir Putin was 32 and Ronald Reagan was 74.

Born during Rock Hudson’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Elizabeth II and Martin Luther King Jr..

Not quite contemporaries: Vladimir Lenin died about a year before Rock Hudson was born, Leo Tolstoy died about 15 years before Rock Hudson was born, Franz Kafka died about a year before Rock Hudson was born and Lionel Messi was born about 2 years after Rock Hudson died.

What happened in Rock Hudson’s lifetime

Where Rock Hudson’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

4,011 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Rock Hudson. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1955.

  1. Barack Obama born 1961
  2. Donald Trump born 1946
  3. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  4. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  5. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  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. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  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 D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  26. Bill Gates born 1955
  27. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  28. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  29. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  30. Shakira born 1977
  31. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  32. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  33. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  34. Bill Clinton born 1946
  35. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  36. Basshunter born 1984
  37. Angela Merkel born 1954
  38. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  39. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  40. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  41. François Hollande born 1954
  42. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  43. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  44. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  45. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  46. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  47. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  48. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  49. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  50. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  51. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  52. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  53. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  54. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  55. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  56. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  57. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  58. Elon Musk born 1971
  59. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  60. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  61. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  62. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  63. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  64. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  65. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  66. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  67. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  68. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  69. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  70. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  71. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  72. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  73. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  74. Madonna born 1958
  75. Kamala Harris born 1964
  76. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  77. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  78. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  79. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  80. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  81. Xi Jinping born 1953
  82. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  83. Naruhito born 1960
  84. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  85. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  86. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  87. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  88. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  89. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  90. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  91. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  92. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  93. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  94. Bob Dylan born 1941
  95. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  96. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  97. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  98. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  99. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  100. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  101. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  102. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  103. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  104. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  105. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  106. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  107. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  108. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  109. Charles III born 1948
  110. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  111. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  112. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  113. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  114. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  115. Kim Jong Un born 1984
  116. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  117. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  118. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  119. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  120. Eminem born 1972
  121. Beyoncé born 1981
  122. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  123. Narendra Modi born 1950
  124. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  125. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  126. Rafael Correa born 1963
  127. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  128. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  129. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  130. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  131. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  132. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  133. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  134. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  135. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  136. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  137. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  138. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  139. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  140. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  141. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  142. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  143. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  144. Mark Zuckerberg born 1984
  145. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  146. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  147. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  148. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  149. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  150. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943