Who Was Alive

Were Kurt Gödel and Donald Trump alive at the same time?

Yes. Kurt Gödel and Donald Trump were alive at the same time for 31 years, from 1946 to 1978.

Kurt Gödel was 40 when Donald Trump was born.

Donald Trump was 31 when Kurt Gödel died, aged 71.

Kurt Gödel

Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics

Born 28 April 1906 · died 14 January 1978, aged 71

Donald Trump

President of the United States

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

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