Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1948?

676 of the people we track were surely alive in 1948. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1948: Charles III, Al Gore, Hassan Rouhani, Svetlana Alexievich, George R. R. Martin, Yoshihide Suga, Ozzy Osbourne and Terry Pratchett.

Died in 1948: Mahatma Gandhi, Sergei Eisenstein, Edgar de Wahl and Mohammad Ali Jinnah.

  1. Donald Trump2
  2. Albert Einstein69
  3. Ronald Reagan37
  4. Nelson Mandela30
  5. Mahatma Gandhi78 †
  6. George W. Bush2
  7. Joseph Stalin70
  8. Joe Biden6
  9. Pablo Picasso67
  10. Winston Churchill74
  11. Charlie Chaplin59
  12. Elizabeth II22
  13. John F. Kennedy31
  14. Martin Luther King Jr.19
  15. Salvador Dalí44
  16. Marilyn Monroe22
  17. Pope Francis12
  18. Mao Zedong55
  19. Che Guevara20
  20. Bill Clinton2
  21. Charles de Gaulle58
  22. Neil Armstrong18
  23. Walt Disney47
  24. Elvis Presley13
  25. George Orwell45
  26. Ernest Hemingway49
  27. Margaret Thatcher23
  28. John Paul II28
  29. Gabriel García Márquez21
  30. Fidel Castro22
  31. J. R. R. Tolkien56
  32. Albert Camus35
  33. Yuri Gagarin14
  34. Marlene Dietrich47
  35. Mikhail Gorbachev17
  36. Jean-Paul Sartre43
  37. Stephen Hawking6
  38. Le Corbusier61
  39. Frida Kahlo41
  40. Mother Teresa38
  41. Jimmy Carter24
  42. Benedict XVI21
  43. Harry S. Truman64
  44. Agatha Christie58
  45. Hillary Clinton1
  46. George H. W. Bush24
  47. Jorge Luis Borges49
  48. Jawaharlal Nehru59
  49. Dwight D. Eisenhower58
  50. Alan Turing36
  51. Richard Nixon35
  52. Alfred Hitchcock49
  53. Noam Chomsky20
  54. Simone de Beauvoir40
  55. George Bernard Shaw92
  56. Niels Bohr63
  57. Bertrand Russell76
  58. Muammar Gaddafi6
  59. John Lennon8
  60. Bob Dylan7
  61. Pelé8
  62. Muhammad Ali6
  63. Henri Matisse79
  64. Frank Lloyd Wright81
  65. Andy Warhol20
  66. Louis Armstrong47
  67. Kofi Annan10
  68. Akira Kurosawa38
  69. Lech Wałęsa5
  70. Freddie Mercury2
  71. Charles IIIborn
  72. Lyndon B. Johnson40
  73. Gerald Ford35
  74. Ludwig Wittgenstein59
  75. Indira Gandhi31
  76. Huang Xianfan49
  77. Enrico Fermi47
  78. Naguib Mahfouz37
  79. Aung San Suu Kyi3
  80. Steven Spielberg2
  81. Nikita Khrushchev54
  82. Saddam Hussein11
  83. Helen Keller68
  84. Tenzin Gyatso13
  85. Pablo Neruda44
  86. Igor Stravinsky66
  87. Thomas Mann73
  88. Bruce Lee8
  89. Erwin Schrödinger61
  90. Silvio Berlusconi12
  91. Bob Marley3
  92. Herbert Hoover74
  93. Hermann Hesse71
  94. Isaac Asimov28–29
  95. Ingmar Bergman30
  96. Federico Fellini28
  97. Mahathir Mohamad23
  98. Boris Yeltsin17
  99. Ali Khamenei9
  100. Kim Il-sung36
  101. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn30
  102. Jacques Chirac16
  103. T. S. Eliot60
  104. Stanley Kubrick20
  105. Kwame Nkrumah39
  106. Marlon Brando24
  107. Hirohito47
  108. Richard Feynman30
  109. Woody Allen13
  110. Bertolt Brecht50
  111. Yasser Arafat19
  112. Ho Chi Minh58
  113. Judy Garland26
  114. Ban Ki-moon4
  115. Arnold Schwarzenegger1
  116. Carl Jung73
  117. Brigitte Bardot14
  118. Vladimir Nabokov49
  119. Hebe Camargo19
  120. Umberto Eco16

The 120 best known of 676 are listed.