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Rafael Trujillo
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Rafael Trujillo

Dominican politician who served as President of the Dominican Republic

Born 24 October 1891 · died 30 May 1961, aged 69
Also known as Rafael L. Trujillo, Rafael Leónidas Trujillo

Who was alive at the same time as Rafael Trujillo?

  1. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  2. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  3. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  4. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  5. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  6. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  7. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  8. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  9. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  10. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  11. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  12. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  13. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  14. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  15. Rafael Trujillo, 1891 – 1961
  16. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  17. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  18. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  19. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  20. Joe Biden, born 1942
  21. Donald Trump, born 1946
  22. George W. Bush, born 1946
  23. Vladimir Putin, born 1952
  24. Michael Jackson, 1958 – 2009

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 Rafael Trujillo was born, Adolf Hitler was 2, Albert Einstein was 12, Vladimir Lenin was 21, Mahatma Gandhi was 22 and Leo Tolstoy was 63.

When Rafael Trujillo died, Donald Trump was 14, Michael Jackson was 2, Vladimir Putin was 8, Ronald Reagan was 50 and Nelson Mandela was 42.

Born during Rafael Trujillo’s lifetime: Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush, Joe Biden and Elizabeth II.

Not quite contemporaries: Barack Obama was born months after Rafael Trujillo died, Karl Marx died about 8 years before Rafael Trujillo was born, Charles Darwin died about 9 years before Rafael Trujillo was born and Victor Hugo died about 6 years before Rafael Trujillo was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

3,300 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Rafael Trujillo. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1926.

  1. Donald Trump born 1946
  2. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  3. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  4. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  5. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  6. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  7. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  8. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  9. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  10. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  11. George W. Bush born 1946
  12. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  13. Joe Biden born 1942
  14. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  15. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  16. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  17. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  18. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  19. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  21. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  22. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  23. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  24. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  25. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  26. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  27. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  28. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  29. Bill Gates born 1955
  30. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  31. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  32. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  33. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  34. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  35. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  36. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  37. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  38. Bill Clinton born 1946
  39. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  40. Angela Merkel born 1954
  41. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  42. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  43. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  44. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  45. François Hollande born 1954
  46. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  47. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  48. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  49. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  50. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  51. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  52. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  53. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  54. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  55. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  56. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  57. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  58. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  59. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  60. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  61. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  62. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  63. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  64. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  65. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  66. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  67. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  68. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  69. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  70. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  71. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  72. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  73. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  74. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  75. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  76. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  77. Madonna born 1958
  78. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  79. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  80. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  81. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  82. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  83. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  84. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  85. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  86. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  87. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  88. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  89. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  90. Xi Jinping born 1953
  91. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  92. Naruhito born 1960
  93. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  94. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  95. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  96. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  97. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  98. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  99. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  100. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  101. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  102. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  103. Bob Dylan born 1941
  104. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  105. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  106. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  107. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  108. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  109. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  110. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  111. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  112. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  113. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  114. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  115. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  116. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  117. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  118. Charles III born 1948
  119. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  120. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  121. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  122. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  123. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  124. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  125. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  126. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  127. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  128. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  129. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  130. Narendra Modi born 1950
  131. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  132. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  133. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  134. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  135. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  136. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  137. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  138. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  139. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  140. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  141. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  142. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  143. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  144. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  145. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  146. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  147. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  148. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  149. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  150. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902