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Confidence votes 24. No, while the Titanic and its tragedy were real, Jack and Rose are simply fictional characters. There was a trimmer aboard name John Dawson who died when the ship sank, but this is purely coincidental. Besides, he was Irish and his name was John.
The Collision. When RMS Titanic hit an iceberg at 11.40pm on 14th April 1912, John Thayer Sr. was asleep, whilst Jack and his mother were preparing for bed. It was at this moment that Jack noticed a breeze through his half-open porthole stop.