Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1942?

625 of the people we track were surely alive in 1942. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1942: Joe Biden, Stephen Hawking, Muammar Gaddafi, Muhammad Ali, Paul McCartney, Jimi Hendrix, Amitabh Bachchan and Hu Jintao.

Died in 1942: Stefan Zweig, William Henry Bragg and Yanka Kupala.

  1. Adolf Hitler53
  2. Albert Einstein63
  3. Ronald Reagan31
  4. Nelson Mandela24
  5. Mahatma Gandhi73
  6. Joseph Stalin64
  7. Joe Bidenborn
  8. Pablo Picasso61
  9. Winston Churchill68
  10. Charlie Chaplin53
  11. Elizabeth II16
  12. John F. Kennedy25
  13. Martin Luther King Jr.13
  14. Salvador Dalí38
  15. Franklin Delano Roosevelt60
  16. Marilyn Monroe16
  17. Pope Francis6
  18. Mao Zedong49
  19. Che Guevara14
  20. Charles de Gaulle52
  21. Nikola Tesla86
  22. Neil Armstrong12
  23. Walt Disney41
  24. Elvis Presley7
  25. George Orwell39
  26. Ernest Hemingway43
  27. Margaret Thatcher17
  28. John Paul II22
  29. Gabriel García Márquez15
  30. Fidel Castro16
  31. J. R. R. Tolkien50
  32. Albert Camus29
  33. Yuri Gagarin8
  34. Henry Ford79
  35. Marlene Dietrich41
  36. Mikhail Gorbachev11
  37. Benito Mussolini59
  38. Jean-Paul Sartre37
  39. Stephen Hawkingborn
  40. Le Corbusier55
  41. Frida Kahlo35
  42. Mother Teresa32
  43. Jimmy Carter18
  44. Benedict XVI15
  45. Harry S. Truman58
  46. Agatha Christie52
  47. George H. W. Bush18
  48. Jorge Luis Borges43
  49. Jawaharlal Nehru53
  50. Dwight D. Eisenhower52
  51. Alan Turing30
  52. Richard Nixon29
  53. Alfred Hitchcock43
  54. Noam Chomsky14
  55. Simone de Beauvoir34
  56. George Bernard Shaw86
  57. John Maynard Keynes59
  58. Niels Bohr57
  59. Bertrand Russell70
  60. Muammar Gaddafiborn
  61. John Lennon2
  62. Bob Dylan1
  63. Max Planck84
  64. Pelé2
  65. Muhammad Aliborn
  66. Henri Matisse73
  67. Frank Lloyd Wright75
  68. Andy Warhol14
  69. Louis Armstrong41
  70. Kofi Annan4
  71. Akira Kurosawa32
  72. Lyndon B. Johnson34
  73. Gerald Ford29
  74. Ludwig Wittgenstein53
  75. Indira Gandhi25
  76. Huang Xianfan43
  77. Enrico Fermi41
  78. Naguib Mahfouz31
  79. Nikita Khrushchev48
  80. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry42
  81. Anne Frank13
  82. Saddam Hussein5
  83. H. G. Wells76
  84. Helen Keller62
  85. Tenzin Gyatso7
  86. Pablo Neruda38
  87. Igor Stravinsky60
  88. David Hilbert80
  89. Thomas Mann67
  90. Bruce Lee2
  91. Erwin Schrödinger55
  92. Silvio Berlusconi6
  93. Herbert Hoover68
  94. Hermann Hesse65
  95. Isaac Asimov22–23
  96. Ingmar Bergman24
  97. Federico Fellini22
  98. Mahathir Mohamad17
  99. Boris Yeltsin11
  100. Ali Khamenei3
  101. Kim Il-sung30
  102. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn24
  103. Jacques Chirac10
  104. T. S. Eliot54
  105. Stanley Kubrick14
  106. Kwame Nkrumah33
  107. Marlon Brando18
  108. Hirohito41
  109. Richard Feynman24
  110. Woody Allen7
  111. Bertolt Brecht44
  112. Yasser Arafat13
  113. Ho Chi Minh52
  114. Judy Garland20
  115. Carl Jung67
  116. Brigitte Bardot8
  117. Vladimir Nabokov43
  118. Hebe Camargo13
  119. Umberto Eco10
  120. Eleanor Roosevelt58

The 120 best known of 625 are listed.