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Ruud van Nistelrooy
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Ruud van Nistelrooy

Dutch association football coach

Born 1 July 1976 · living, 50 as of October 2026
Also known as Ruud van Nistelrooij

Who was alive at the same time as Ruud van Nistelrooy?

  1. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  2. Mao Zedong, 1893 – 1976
  3. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  4. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  5. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  6. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  7. Neil Armstrong, 1930 – 2012
  8. Pope Francis, 1936 – 2025
  9. Joe Biden, born 1942
  10. Donald Trump, born 1946
  11. George W. Bush, born 1946
  12. Bill Clinton, born 1946
  13. Vladimir Putin, born 1952
  14. Angela Merkel, 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. Ruud van Nistelrooy, born 1976
  21. Shakira, born 1977
  22. Basshunter, born 1984
  23. Lionel Messi, born 1987
  24. Corbin Bleu, born 1989

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When Ruud van Nistelrooy was born, Barack Obama was 14, Donald Trump was 30, Michael Jackson was 17, Vladimir Putin was 23 and Ronald Reagan was 65.

Born during Ruud van Nistelrooy’s lifetime: Shakira, Lionel Messi, Corbin Bleu, Basshunter, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Cristiano Ronaldo, Emmanuel Macron and Lady Gaga.

Not quite contemporaries: Pablo Picasso died about 3 years before Ruud van Nistelrooy was born, Winston Churchill died about 11 years before Ruud van Nistelrooy was born, John F. Kennedy died about 13 years before Ruud van Nistelrooy was born and Martin Luther King Jr. died about 8 years before Ruud van Nistelrooy was born.

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Where Ruud van Nistelrooy’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

3,648 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Ruud van Nistelrooy. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 2001.

  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. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  17. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  18. Lionel Messi born 1987
  19. Corbin Bleu born 1989
  20. Bill Clinton born 1946
  21. Basshunter born 1984
  22. Angela Merkel born 1954
  23. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  24. François Hollande born 1954
  25. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  26. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  27. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  28. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  29. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  30. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  31. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  32. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  33. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  34. Elon Musk born 1971
  35. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  36. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  37. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  38. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  39. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  40. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  41. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  42. Lady Gaga born 1986
  43. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  44. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  45. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  46. Madonna born 1958
  47. Kamala Harris born 1964
  48. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  49. Xi Jinping born 1953
  50. Naruhito born 1960
  51. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  52. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  53. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  54. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  55. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  56. Bob Dylan born 1941
  57. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  58. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  59. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  60. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  61. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  62. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  63. Justin Bieber born 1994
  64. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  65. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  66. Taylor Swift born 1989
  67. Charles III born 1948
  68. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  69. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  70. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  71. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  72. Kim Jong Un born 1984
  73. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  74. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  75. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  76. Eminem born 1972
  77. Beyoncé born 1981
  78. Selena Gomez born 1992
  79. Narendra Modi born 1950
  80. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  81. Rafael Correa born 1963
  82. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  83. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  84. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  85. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  86. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  87. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  88. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  89. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  90. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  91. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  92. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  93. Mark Zuckerberg born 1984
  94. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  95. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  96. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  97. Shinzo Abe 1954 – 2022
  98. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  99. Tim Berners-Lee born 1955
  100. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  101. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  102. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  103. Jackie Chan born 1954
  104. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  105. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  106. Robin Williams 1951 – 2014
  107. Guillermo Lasso born 1955
  108. Celine Dion born 1968
  109. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  110. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  111. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  112. Roger Federer born 1981
  113. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  114. Lana Del Rey born 1985
  115. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  116. Alexander Lukashenko born 1954
  117. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  118. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  119. Woody Allen born 1935
  120. Neymar born 1992
  121. Tony Blair born 1953
  122. Rihanna born 1988
  123. Malala Yousafzai born 1997
  124. Scarlett Johansson born 1984
  125. Rafael Nadal born 1986
  126. Yasser Arafat 1929 – 2004
  127. Greta Thunberg born 2003
  128. Ban Ki-moon born 1944
  129. Arnold Schwarzenegger born 1947
  130. David Cameron born 1966
  131. Linus Torvalds born 1969
  132. Novak Djokovic born 1987
  133. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  134. Brigitte Bardot 1934 – 2025
  135. Hebe Camargo 1929 – 2012
  136. Umberto Eco 1932 – 2016
  137. Diana, Princess of Wales 1961 – 1997
  138. Boris Johnson born 1964
  139. Bashar al-Assad born 1965
  140. Audrey Hepburn 1929 – 1993
  141. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva born 1945
  142. Benazir Bhutto 1953 – 2007
  143. Jair Bolsonaro born 1955
  144. Paul McCartney born 1942
  145. Anggun born 1974
  146. Leonardo DiCaprio born 1974
  147. Agnez Mo born 1986
  148. Stephen King born 1947
  149. Theresa May born 1956
  150. Johnny Depp born 1963