Who Was Alive

Were Leonid Brezhnev and Donald Trump alive at the same time?

Yes. Leonid Brezhnev and Donald Trump were alive at the same time for 36 years, from 1946 to 1982.

Leonid Brezhnev was 39 when Donald Trump was born.

Donald Trump was 36 when Leonid Brezhnev died, aged 75.

Leonid Brezhnev

General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Born 6 December 1906 (Julian calendar) · died 10 November 1982, aged 75

Donald Trump

President of the United States

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

  1. Albert Einstein
  2. Adolf Hitler
  3. Leonid Brezhnev
  4. Ronald Reagan
  5. Donald Trump
  6. Vladimir Putin
  7. Michael Jackson
  8. Barack Obama
Leonid Brezhnev 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.