Who Was Alive

Were Hermann Hesse and Donald Trump alive at the same time?

Yes. Hermann Hesse and Donald Trump were alive at the same time for 16 years, from 1946 to 1962.

Hermann Hesse was 68 when Donald Trump was born.

Donald Trump was 16 when Hermann Hesse died, aged 85.

Hermann Hesse

Nobel Prize winning German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter

Born 2 July 1877 · died 9 August 1962, aged 85

Donald Trump

President of the United States

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

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