Who Was Alive

Were Mobutu Sese Seko and Donald Trump alive at the same time?

Yes. Mobutu Sese Seko and Donald Trump were alive at the same time for 51 years, from 1946 to 1997.

Mobutu Sese Seko was 15 when Donald Trump was born.

Donald Trump was 51 when Mobutu Sese Seko died, aged 66.

Mobutu Sese Seko

Congolese politician and military officer, the first and only president of Zaire from 1971 to 1997

Born 14 October 1930 · died 7 September 1997, aged 66

Donald Trump

President of the United States

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

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