Who Was Alive

Jane Fonda

American actress and activist

Born 21 December 1937 · living, 88 as of September 2026

Who was alive at the same time as Jane Fonda?

  1. Sigmund Freud
  2. Rabindranath Tagore
  3. Mahatma Gandhi
  4. Winston Churchill
  5. Joseph Stalin
  6. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  7. Albert Einstein
  8. Pablo Picasso
  9. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  10. Charlie Chaplin
  11. Adolf Hitler
  12. Salvador Dalí
  13. Ronald Reagan
  14. John F. Kennedy
  15. Nelson Mandela
  16. Elizabeth II
  17. Martin Luther King Jr.
  18. Jane Fonda
  19. Joe Biden
  20. Donald Trump
  21. George W. Bush
  22. Vladimir Putin
  23. Michael Jackson
  24. Barack Obama
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When Jane Fonda was born, Adolf Hitler was 48, Albert Einstein was 58, Ronald Reagan was 26, Nelson Mandela was 19 and Mahatma Gandhi was 68.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Vladimir Lenin died 13 years before Jane Fonda was born, Thomas Edison died 6 years before Jane Fonda was born, Marie Curie died 3 years before Jane Fonda was born and Franz Kafka died 13 years before Jane Fonda was born.

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  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. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  18. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  19. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  20. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  21. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  22. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  23. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  24. Bill Gates born 1955
  25. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  26. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  27. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  28. Shakira born 1977
  29. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  30. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  31. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
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  79. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
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  133. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
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  135. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  136. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  137. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  138. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
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