Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1944?

639 of the people we track were surely alive in 1944. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1944: Ban Ki-moon, George Lucas, Gerhard Schröder, Rajiv Gandhi, Michael Douglas, Alice Walker, Omar al-Bashir and Miloš Zeman.

Died in 1944: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Romain Rolland, Edvard Munch, Erwin Rommel and Wassily Kandinsky.

  1. Adolf Hitler55
  2. Albert Einstein65
  3. Ronald Reagan33
  4. Nelson Mandela26
  5. Mahatma Gandhi75
  6. Joseph Stalin66
  7. Joe Biden2
  8. Pablo Picasso63
  9. Winston Churchill70
  10. Charlie Chaplin55
  11. Elizabeth II18
  12. John F. Kennedy27
  13. Martin Luther King Jr.15
  14. Salvador Dalí40
  15. Franklin Delano Roosevelt62
  16. Marilyn Monroe18
  17. Pope Francis8
  18. Mao Zedong51
  19. Che Guevara16
  20. Charles de Gaulle54
  21. Neil Armstrong14
  22. Walt Disney43
  23. Elvis Presley9
  24. George Orwell41
  25. Ernest Hemingway45
  26. Margaret Thatcher19
  27. John Paul II24
  28. Gabriel García Márquez17
  29. Fidel Castro18
  30. J. R. R. Tolkien52
  31. Albert Camus31
  32. Yuri Gagarin10
  33. Henry Ford81
  34. Marlene Dietrich43
  35. Mikhail Gorbachev13
  36. Benito Mussolini61
  37. Jean-Paul Sartre39
  38. Stephen Hawking2
  39. Le Corbusier57
  40. Frida Kahlo37
  41. Mother Teresa34
  42. Jimmy Carter20
  43. Benedict XVI17
  44. Harry S. Truman60
  45. Agatha Christie54
  46. George H. W. Bush20
  47. Jorge Luis Borges45
  48. Jawaharlal Nehru55
  49. Dwight D. Eisenhower54
  50. Alan Turing32
  51. Richard Nixon31
  52. Alfred Hitchcock45
  53. Noam Chomsky16
  54. Simone de Beauvoir36
  55. George Bernard Shaw88
  56. John Maynard Keynes61
  57. Niels Bohr59
  58. Bertrand Russell72
  59. Muammar Gaddafi2
  60. John Lennon4
  61. Bob Dylan3
  62. Max Planck86
  63. Pelé4
  64. Muhammad Ali2
  65. Henri Matisse75
  66. Frank Lloyd Wright77
  67. Andy Warhol16
  68. Louis Armstrong43
  69. Kofi Annan6
  70. Akira Kurosawa34
  71. Lech Wałęsa1
  72. Lyndon B. Johnson36
  73. Gerald Ford31
  74. Ludwig Wittgenstein55
  75. Indira Gandhi27
  76. Huang Xianfan45
  77. Enrico Fermi43
  78. Naguib Mahfouz33
  79. Nikita Khrushchev50
  80. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry44 †
  81. Anne Frank15
  82. Saddam Hussein7
  83. H. G. Wells78
  84. Helen Keller64
  85. Tenzin Gyatso9
  86. Pablo Neruda40
  87. Igor Stravinsky62
  88. Thomas Mann69
  89. Bruce Lee4
  90. Erwin Schrödinger57
  91. Silvio Berlusconi8
  92. Herbert Hoover70
  93. Hermann Hesse67
  94. Isaac Asimov24–25
  95. Ingmar Bergman26
  96. Federico Fellini24
  97. Mahathir Mohamad19
  98. Boris Yeltsin13
  99. Ali Khamenei5
  100. Kim Il-sung32
  101. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn26
  102. Jacques Chirac12
  103. T. S. Eliot56
  104. Stanley Kubrick16
  105. Kwame Nkrumah35
  106. Marlon Brando20
  107. Hirohito43
  108. Richard Feynman26
  109. Woody Allen9
  110. Bertolt Brecht46
  111. Yasser Arafat15
  112. Ho Chi Minh54
  113. Judy Garland22
  114. Ban Ki-moonborn
  115. Carl Jung69
  116. Brigitte Bardot10
  117. Vladimir Nabokov45
  118. Hebe Camargo15
  119. Umberto Eco12
  120. Jim Morrison1

The 120 best known of 639 are listed.