Who Was Alive

Were Yasunari Kawabata and Donald Trump alive at the same time?

Yes. Yasunari Kawabata and Donald Trump were alive at the same time for 25 years, from 1946 to 1972.

Yasunari Kawabata was 47 when Donald Trump was born.

Donald Trump was 25 when Yasunari Kawabata died, aged 72.

Yasunari Kawabata

Japanese novelist

Born 11 June 1899 · died 16 April 1972, aged 72

Donald Trump

President of the United States

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

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