Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1949?

690 of the people we track were surely alive in 1949. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1949: Benjamin Netanyahu, Meryl Streep, Haruki Murakami, Valery Leontiev, António Guterres, Sigourney Weaver, Lech Kaczyński and Pablo Escobar.

Died in 1949: Maurice Maeterlinck, Sigrid Undset, Margaret Mitchell and Richard Strauss.

  1. Donald Trump3
  2. Albert Einstein70
  3. Ronald Reagan38
  4. Nelson Mandela31
  5. George W. Bush3
  6. Joseph Stalin71
  7. Joe Biden7
  8. Pablo Picasso68
  9. Winston Churchill75
  10. Charlie Chaplin60
  11. Elizabeth II23
  12. John F. Kennedy32
  13. Martin Luther King Jr.20
  14. Salvador Dalí45
  15. Marilyn Monroe23
  16. Pope Francis13
  17. Mao Zedong56
  18. Che Guevara21
  19. Bill Clinton3
  20. Charles de Gaulle59
  21. Neil Armstrong19
  22. Walt Disney48
  23. Elvis Presley14
  24. George Orwell46
  25. Ernest Hemingway50
  26. Margaret Thatcher24
  27. John Paul II29
  28. Gabriel García Márquez22
  29. Fidel Castro23
  30. J. R. R. Tolkien57
  31. Albert Camus36
  32. Yuri Gagarin15
  33. Marlene Dietrich48
  34. Mikhail Gorbachev18
  35. Jean-Paul Sartre44
  36. Stephen Hawking7
  37. Le Corbusier62
  38. Frida Kahlo42
  39. Mother Teresa39
  40. Jimmy Carter25
  41. Benedict XVI22
  42. Harry S. Truman65
  43. Agatha Christie59
  44. Hillary Clinton2
  45. George H. W. Bush25
  46. Jorge Luis Borges50
  47. Jawaharlal Nehru60
  48. Dwight D. Eisenhower59
  49. Alan Turing37
  50. Richard Nixon36
  51. Alfred Hitchcock50
  52. Noam Chomsky21
  53. Simone de Beauvoir41
  54. George Bernard Shaw93
  55. Niels Bohr64
  56. Bertrand Russell77
  57. Muammar Gaddafi7
  58. John Lennon9
  59. Bob Dylan8
  60. Pelé9
  61. Muhammad Ali7
  62. Henri Matisse80
  63. Frank Lloyd Wright82
  64. Andy Warhol21
  65. Louis Armstrong48
  66. Kofi Annan11
  67. Akira Kurosawa39
  68. Lech Wałęsa6
  69. Freddie Mercury3
  70. Charles III1
  71. Lyndon B. Johnson41
  72. Gerald Ford36
  73. Ludwig Wittgenstein60
  74. Indira Gandhi32
  75. Huang Xianfan50
  76. Enrico Fermi48
  77. Naguib Mahfouz38
  78. Aung San Suu Kyi4
  79. Steven Spielberg3
  80. Nikita Khrushchev55
  81. Saddam Hussein12
  82. Benjamin Netanyahuborn
  83. Helen Keller69
  84. Tenzin Gyatso14
  85. Pablo Neruda45
  86. Igor Stravinsky67
  87. Thomas Mann74
  88. Bruce Lee9
  89. Erwin Schrödinger62
  90. Silvio Berlusconi13
  91. Bob Marley4
  92. Herbert Hoover75
  93. Hermann Hesse72
  94. Isaac Asimov29–30
  95. Ingmar Bergman31
  96. Federico Fellini29
  97. Mahathir Mohamad24
  98. Boris Yeltsin18
  99. Ali Khamenei10
  100. Kim Il-sung37
  101. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn31
  102. Jacques Chirac17
  103. T. S. Eliot61
  104. Stanley Kubrick21
  105. Kwame Nkrumah40
  106. Marlon Brando25
  107. Hirohito48
  108. Richard Feynman31
  109. Woody Allen14
  110. Bertolt Brecht51
  111. Yasser Arafat20
  112. Ho Chi Minh59
  113. Judy Garland27
  114. Ban Ki-moon5
  115. Arnold Schwarzenegger2
  116. Carl Jung74
  117. Brigitte Bardot15
  118. Vladimir Nabokov50
  119. Hebe Camargo20
  120. Umberto Eco17

The 120 best known of 690 are listed.