Who Was Alive

Were Elias Canetti and Donald Trump alive at the same time?

Yes. Elias Canetti and Donald Trump were alive at the same time for 48 years, from 1946 to 1994.

Elias Canetti was 40 when Donald Trump was born.

Donald Trump was 48 when Elias Canetti died, aged 89.

Elias Canetti

Bulgarian-born Swiss and British Jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer

Born 25 July 1905 · died 14 August 1994, aged 89

Donald Trump

President of the United States

Born 14 June 1946 · living, 80 as of September 2026

  1. Albert Einstein
  2. Adolf Hitler
  3. Elias Canetti
  4. Ronald Reagan
  5. Donald Trump
  6. Vladimir Putin
  7. Michael Jackson
  8. Barack Obama
Elias Canetti and Donald Trump in bold, with some of their best-known contemporaries. Drag across to see the age each reached in any year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.