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Donna Tartt
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Donna Tartt

American writer

Born 23 December 1963 · living, 62 as of November 2026
Also known as Donna Louise Tartt

Who was alive at the same time as Donna Tartt?

  1. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  2. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  3. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  4. Mao Zedong, 1893 – 1976
  5. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  6. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  7. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  8. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  9. Che Guevara, 1928 – 1967
  10. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968
  11. Pope Francis, 1936 – 2025
  12. Joe Biden, born 1942
  13. Donald Trump, born 1946
  14. George W. Bush, born 1946
  15. Vladimir Putin, born 1952
  16. Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011
  17. Bill Gates, born 1955
  18. Michael Jackson, 1958 – 2009
  19. Barack Obama, born 1961
  20. Donna Tartt, born 1963
  21. Jimmy Wales, born 1966
  22. Shakira, born 1977
  23. Lionel Messi, born 1987
  24. Corbin Bleu, born 1989

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When Donna Tartt was born, Barack Obama was 2, Donald Trump was 17, Michael Jackson was 5, Vladimir Putin was 11 and Ronald Reagan was 52.

Born during Donna Tartt’s lifetime: Jimmy Wales, Shakira, Lionel Messi, Corbin Bleu, Basshunter, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Cristiano Ronaldo and Elon Musk.

Not quite contemporaries: Albert Einstein died about 8 years before Donna Tartt was born, Joseph Stalin died about 10 years before Donna Tartt was born, John F. Kennedy died months before Donna Tartt was born and Marilyn Monroe died about a year before Donna Tartt was born.

What happened in Donna Tartt’s lifetime

Where Donna Tartt’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

3,956 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Donna Tartt. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1995.

  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. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  10. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  11. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  12. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  13. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  14. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  15. Bill Gates born 1955
  16. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  17. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  18. Shakira born 1977
  19. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  20. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  21. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  22. Lionel Messi born 1987
  23. Corbin Bleu born 1989
  24. Bill Clinton born 1946
  25. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  26. Basshunter born 1984
  27. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  28. Angela Merkel born 1954
  29. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  30. François Hollande born 1954
  31. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  32. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  33. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  34. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  35. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  36. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  37. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  38. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  39. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  40. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  41. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  42. Elon Musk born 1971
  43. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  44. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  45. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  46. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  47. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  48. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  49. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  50. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  51. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  52. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  53. Lady Gaga born 1986
  54. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  55. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  56. Madonna born 1958
  57. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  58. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  59. Kamala Harris born 1964
  60. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  61. Xi Jinping born 1953
  62. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  63. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  64. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  65. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  66. Naruhito born 1960
  67. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  68. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  69. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  70. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  71. Bob Dylan born 1941
  72. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  73. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  74. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  75. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  76. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  77. Justin Bieber born 1994
  78. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  79. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  80. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  81. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  82. Taylor Swift born 1989
  83. Charles III born 1948
  84. Kim Jong Un born 1984
  85. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  86. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  87. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  88. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  89. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  90. Beyoncé born 1981
  91. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  92. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  93. Eminem born 1972
  94. Selena Gomez born 1992
  95. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  96. Narendra Modi born 1950
  97. Rafael Correa born 1963
  98. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  99. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  100. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  101. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  102. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  103. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  104. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  105. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  106. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  107. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  108. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  109. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  110. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  111. Mark Zuckerberg born 1984
  112. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  113. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  114. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  115. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  116. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  117. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  118. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  119. Shinzo Abe 1954 – 2022
  120. Tim Berners-Lee born 1955
  121. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  122. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  123. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  124. Jackie Chan born 1954
  125. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  126. Robin Williams 1951 – 2014
  127. Celine Dion born 1968
  128. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  129. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  130. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  131. Guillermo Lasso born 1955
  132. Roger Federer born 1981
  133. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  134. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  135. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  136. Lana Del Rey born 1985
  137. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  138. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  139. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  140. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  141. Alexander Lukashenko born 1954
  142. Neymar born 1992
  143. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  144. Woody Allen born 1935
  145. Scarlett Johansson born 1984
  146. Rihanna born 1988
  147. Malala Yousafzai born 1997
  148. Tony Blair born 1953
  149. Greta Thunberg born 2003
  150. Yasser Arafat 1929 – 2004