Who Was Alive

James Cameron

Canadian filmmaker and explorer

Born 16 August 1954 · living, 72 as of September 2026

Who was alive at the same time as James Cameron?

  1. Winston Churchill
  2. Albert Einstein
  3. Pablo Picasso
  4. Charlie Chaplin
  5. Mao Zedong
  6. Salvador Dalí
  7. Ronald Reagan
  8. John F. Kennedy
  9. Nelson Mandela
  10. Elizabeth II
  11. Marilyn Monroe
  12. Martin Luther King Jr.
  13. Pope Francis
  14. Joe Biden
  15. Donald Trump
  16. George W. Bush
  17. Vladimir Putin
  18. James Cameron
  19. Steve Jobs
  20. Bill Gates
  21. Michael Jackson
  22. Barack Obama
  23. Jimmy Wales
  24. Shakira
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When James Cameron was born, Donald Trump was 8, Albert Einstein was 75, Vladimir Putin was 1, Ronald Reagan was 43 and Nelson Mandela was 36.

Born during James Cameron’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Michael Jackson, Bill Gates, Jimmy Wales, Shakira, Steve Jobs, Lionel Messi and Corbin Bleu.

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler died 9 years before James Cameron was born, Mahatma Gandhi died 6 years before James Cameron was born, Joseph Stalin died about a year before James Cameron was born and Sigmund Freud died 15 years before James Cameron was born.

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  1. Barack Obama born 1961
  2. Donald Trump born 1946
  3. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  4. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  5. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  6. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  7. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  8. George W. Bush born 1946
  9. Joe Biden born 1942
  10. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  11. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  12. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  13. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  14. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  15. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  16. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  17. Bill Gates born 1955
  18. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  19. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  20. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  21. Shakira born 1977
  22. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  23. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  24. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  25. Lionel Messi born 1987
  26. Corbin Bleu born 1989
  27. Bill Clinton born 1946
  28. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  29. Basshunter born 1984
  30. Angela Merkel born 1954
  31. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  32. François Hollande born 1954
  33. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  34. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  35. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  36. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  37. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  38. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  39. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  40. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  41. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  42. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  43. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  44. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  45. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  46. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  47. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  48. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  49. Elon Musk born 1971
  50. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  51. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  52. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  53. Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  54. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  55. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  56. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  57. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  58. Lady Gaga born 1986
  59. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  60. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  61. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  62. Madonna born 1958
  63. Kamala Harris born 1964
  64. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  65. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  66. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  67. Xi Jinping born 1953
  68. Naruhito born 1960
  69. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  70. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  71. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  72. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  73. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  74. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  75. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  76. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  77. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  78. Bob Dylan born 1941
  79. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  80. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  81. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  82. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  83. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  84. Justin Bieber born 1994
  85. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  86. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  87. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  88. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  89. Taylor Swift born 1989
  90. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  91. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  92. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  93. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  94. Charles III born 1948
  95. Kim Jong-un born 1984
  96. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  97. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  98. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  99. Eminem born 1972
  100. Beyoncé born 1981
  101. Selena Gomez born 1992
  102. Leo XIV born 1955
  103. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  104. Narendra Modi born 1950
  105. Rafael Correa born 1963
  106. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  107. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  108. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  109. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  110. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  111. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  112. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  113. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  114. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  115. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  116. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  117. Tenzin Gyatso born 1935
  118. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  119. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  120. Mark Zuckerberg born 1984
  121. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  122. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  123. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  124. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  125. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  126. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  127. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  128. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  129. Shinzō Abe 1954 – 2022
  130. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  131. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  132. Isaac Asimov 1919–1920 – 1992
  133. Tim Berners-Lee born 1955
  134. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  135. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  136. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  137. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  138. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  139. Robin Williams 1951 – 2014
  140. Jackie Chan born 1954
  141. Kim Il-sung 1912 – 1994
  142. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  143. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  144. Guillermo Lasso born 1955
  145. Céline Dion born 1968
  146. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  147. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  148. Roger Federer born 1981
  149. Lana Del Rey born 1985
  150. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972

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