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Michelle Trachtenberg
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Michelle Trachtenberg

American actor

Born 11 October 1985 · died 26 February 2025, aged 39
Also known as Michelle Christine Trachtenberg

Who was alive at the same time as Michelle Trachtenberg?

  1. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  2. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  3. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  4. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  5. Neil Armstrong, 1930 – 2012
  6. Pope Francis, 1936 – 2025
  7. Joe Biden, born 1942
  8. Donald Trump, born 1946
  9. George W. Bush, born 1946
  10. Bill Clinton, born 1946
  11. Vladimir Putin, born 1952
  12. Angela Merkel, born 1954
  13. François Hollande, born 1954
  14. Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011
  15. Bill Gates, born 1955
  16. Michael Jackson, 1958 – 2009
  17. Barack Obama, born 1961
  18. Jimmy Wales, born 1966
  19. Shakira, born 1977
  20. Volodymyr Zelenskyy, born 1978
  21. Basshunter, born 1984
  22. Michelle Trachtenberg, 1985 – 2025
  23. Lionel Messi, born 1987
  24. Corbin Bleu, born 1989

Drag across the timeline, or use the arrow keys, to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Dashed lines mark world events. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Michelle Trachtenberg was born, Barack Obama was 24, Donald Trump was 39, Michael Jackson was 27, Vladimir Putin was 33 and Ronald Reagan was 74.

When Michelle Trachtenberg died, Barack Obama was 63, Donald Trump was 78, Vladimir Putin was 72, George W. Bush was 78 and Joe Biden was 82.

Born during Michelle Trachtenberg’s lifetime: Lionel Messi, Corbin Bleu, Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez, Neymar and Rihanna.

Not quite contemporaries: Pablo Picasso died about 12 years before Michelle Trachtenberg was born, Charlie Chaplin died about 8 years before Michelle Trachtenberg was born, Mao Zedong died about 9 years before Michelle Trachtenberg was born and Charles de Gaulle died about 15 years before Michelle Trachtenberg was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

3,506 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Michelle Trachtenberg. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 2005.

  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. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  10. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  11. Bill Gates born 1955
  12. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  13. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  14. Shakira born 1977
  15. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  16. Lionel Messi born 1987
  17. Corbin Bleu born 1989
  18. Bill Clinton born 1946
  19. Basshunter born 1984
  20. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  21. Angela Merkel born 1954
  22. François Hollande born 1954
  23. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  24. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  25. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  26. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  27. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  28. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  29. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  30. Elon Musk born 1971
  31. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  32. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  33. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  34. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  35. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  36. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  37. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  38. Lady Gaga born 1986
  39. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  40. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  41. Madonna born 1958
  42. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  43. Kamala Harris born 1964
  44. Xi Jinping born 1953
  45. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  46. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  47. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  48. Naruhito born 1960
  49. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  50. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  51. Bob Dylan born 1941
  52. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  53. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  54. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  55. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  56. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  57. Justin Bieber born 1994
  58. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  59. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  60. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  61. Taylor Swift born 1989
  62. Charles III born 1948
  63. Kim Jong Un born 1984
  64. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  65. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  66. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  67. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  68. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  69. Beyoncé born 1981
  70. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  71. Eminem born 1972
  72. Selena Gomez born 1992
  73. Narendra Modi born 1950
  74. Rafael Correa born 1963
  75. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  76. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  77. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  78. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  79. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  80. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  81. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  82. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  83. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  84. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  85. Mark Zuckerberg born 1984
  86. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  87. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  88. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  89. Shinzo Abe 1954 – 2022
  90. Tim Berners-Lee born 1955
  91. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  92. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  93. Jackie Chan born 1954
  94. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  95. Robin Williams 1951 – 2014
  96. Celine Dion born 1968
  97. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  98. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  99. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  100. Guillermo Lasso born 1955
  101. Roger Federer born 1981
  102. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  103. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  104. Lana Del Rey born 1985
  105. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  106. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  107. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  108. Alexander Lukashenko born 1954
  109. Neymar born 1992
  110. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  111. Woody Allen born 1935
  112. Scarlett Johansson born 1984
  113. Rihanna born 1988
  114. Malala Yousafzai born 1997
  115. Tony Blair born 1953
  116. Greta Thunberg born 2003
  117. Yasser Arafat 1929 – 2004
  118. Arnold Schwarzenegger born 1947
  119. Rafael Nadal born 1986
  120. Novak Djokovic born 1987
  121. Ban Ki-moon born 1944
  122. David Cameron born 1966
  123. Linus Torvalds born 1969
  124. Brigitte Bardot 1934 – 2025
  125. Diana, Princess of Wales 1961 – 1997
  126. Hebe Camargo 1929 – 2012
  127. Audrey Hepburn 1929 – 1993
  128. Umberto Eco 1932 – 2016
  129. Boris Johnson born 1964
  130. Bashar al-Assad born 1965
  131. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva born 1945
  132. Benazir Bhutto 1953 – 2007
  133. Jair Bolsonaro born 1955
  134. Leonardo DiCaprio born 1974
  135. Paul McCartney born 1942
  136. Anggun born 1974
  137. Stephen King born 1947
  138. Johnny Depp born 1963
  139. Agnez Mo born 1986
  140. Theresa May born 1956
  141. Brad Pitt born 1963
  142. Zinedine Zidane born 1972
  143. Maya Angelou 1928 – 2014
  144. Sean Connery 1930 – 2020
  145. Elizabeth Taylor 1932 – 2011
  146. Britney Spears born 1981
  147. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad born 1956
  148. Emma Watson born 1990
  149. Satyajit Ray 1921 – 1992
  150. Henry Kissinger 1923 – 2023