Who Was Alive

Dilma Rousseff

36th President of Brazil (2011-2016), 3rd President of the New Development Bank (BRICS)

Born 14 December 1947 · living, 78 as of September 2026

Who was alive at the same time as Dilma Rousseff?

  1. Mahatma Gandhi
  2. Winston Churchill
  3. Joseph Stalin
  4. Albert Einstein
  5. Pablo Picasso
  6. Charlie Chaplin
  7. Salvador Dalí
  8. Ronald Reagan
  9. John F. Kennedy
  10. Nelson Mandela
  11. Elizabeth II
  12. Marilyn Monroe
  13. Martin Luther King Jr.
  14. Pope Francis
  15. Joe Biden
  16. Donald Trump
  17. George W. Bush
  18. Dilma Rousseff
  19. Vladimir Putin
  20. Bill Gates
  21. Michael Jackson
  22. Barack Obama
  23. Jimmy Wales
  24. Shakira
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When Dilma Rousseff was born, Donald Trump was 1, Albert Einstein was 68, Ronald Reagan was 36, Nelson Mandela was 29 and Mahatma Gandhi was 78.

Born during Dilma Rousseff’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Bill Gates, Jimmy Wales, Shakira, Steve Jobs and Lionel Messi.

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler died 2 years before Dilma Rousseff was born, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk died 9 years before Dilma Rousseff was born, Sigmund Freud died 8 years before Dilma Rousseff was born and Marie Curie died 13 years before Dilma Rousseff was born.

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