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Tarō Asō
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Tarō Asō

Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan

Born 20 September 1940 · living, 86 as of October 2026
Also known as Taro Aso, Tarou Asou, Asō Tarō

Who was alive at the same time as Tarō Asō?

  1. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  2. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  3. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  4. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  5. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  6. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  7. Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1882 – 1945
  8. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  9. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  10. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  11. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  12. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  13. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  14. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  15. Marilyn Monroe, 1926 – 1962
  16. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968
  17. Tarō Asō, born 1940
  18. Joe Biden, born 1942
  19. Donald Trump, born 1946
  20. George W. Bush, born 1946
  21. Vladimir Putin, born 1952
  22. Bill Gates, born 1955
  23. Michael Jackson, 1958 – 2009
  24. Barack Obama, born 1961

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When Tarō Asō was born, Adolf Hitler was 51, Albert Einstein was 61, Ronald Reagan was 29, Nelson Mandela was 22 and Mahatma Gandhi was 70.

Born during Tarō Asō’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Bill Gates and Jimmy Wales.

Not quite contemporaries: Thomas Edison died about 9 years before Tarō Asō was born, Sigmund Freud died about a year before Tarō Asō was born, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk died about 2 years before Tarō Asō was born and Marie Curie died about 6 years before Tarō Asō was born.

What happened in Tarō Asō’s lifetime

Where Tarō Asō’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

4,251 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Tarō Asō. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1983.

  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. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  18. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  19. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  20. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  21. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  22. Bill Gates born 1955
  23. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  24. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  25. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  26. Shakira born 1977
  27. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  28. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  29. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  30. Lionel Messi born 1987
  31. Corbin Bleu born 1989
  32. Bill Clinton born 1946
  33. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  34. Basshunter born 1984
  35. Angela Merkel born 1954
  36. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  37. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  38. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  39. François Hollande born 1954
  40. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  41. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  42. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  43. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  44. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  45. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  46. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  47. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  48. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  49. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  50. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  51. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  52. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  53. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  54. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  55. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  56. Elon Musk born 1971
  57. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  58. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  59. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  60. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  61. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  62. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  63. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  64. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  65. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  66. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  67. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  68. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  69. Lady Gaga born 1986
  70. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  71. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  72. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  73. Madonna born 1958
  74. Kamala Harris born 1964
  75. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  76. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  77. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  78. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  79. Xi Jinping born 1953
  80. Naruhito born 1960
  81. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  82. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  83. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  84. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  85. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  86. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  87. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  88. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  89. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  90. Bob Dylan born 1941
  91. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  92. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  93. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  94. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  95. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  96. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  97. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  98. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  99. Justin Bieber born 1994
  100. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  101. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  102. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  103. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  104. Taylor Swift born 1989
  105. Charles III born 1948
  106. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  107. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  108. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  109. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  110. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  111. Kim Jong Un born 1984
  112. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  113. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  114. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  115. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  116. Eminem born 1972
  117. Beyoncé born 1981
  118. Selena Gomez born 1992
  119. Narendra Modi born 1950
  120. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  121. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  122. Rafael Correa born 1963
  123. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  124. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  125. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  126. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  127. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  128. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  129. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  130. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  131. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  132. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  133. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  134. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  135. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  136. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  137. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  138. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  139. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  140. Mark Zuckerberg born 1984
  141. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  142. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  143. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  144. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  145. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  146. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  147. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  148. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  149. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  150. Shinzo Abe 1954 – 2022