Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1950?

693 of the people we track were surely alive in 1950. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1950: Narendra Modi, Viktor Yanukovych, Abdullah Gül, Steve Wozniak, Sergey Lavrov, Stevie Wonder and Zaha Hadid.

Died in 1950: George Orwell, George Bernard Shaw, Aurobindo Ghosh and Johannes V. Jensen.

  1. Donald Trump4
  2. Albert Einstein71
  3. Ronald Reagan39
  4. Nelson Mandela32
  5. George W. Bush4
  6. Joseph Stalin72
  7. Joe Biden8
  8. Pablo Picasso69
  9. Winston Churchill76
  10. Charlie Chaplin61
  11. Elizabeth II24
  12. John F. Kennedy33
  13. Martin Luther King Jr.21
  14. Salvador Dalí46
  15. Marilyn Monroe24
  16. Pope Francis14
  17. Mao Zedong57
  18. Che Guevara22
  19. Bill Clinton4
  20. Charles de Gaulle60
  21. Neil Armstrong20
  22. Walt Disney49
  23. Elvis Presley15
  24. George Orwell46 †
  25. Ernest Hemingway51
  26. Margaret Thatcher25
  27. John Paul II30
  28. Gabriel García Márquez23
  29. Fidel Castro24
  30. J. R. R. Tolkien58
  31. Albert Camus37
  32. Yuri Gagarin16
  33. Marlene Dietrich49
  34. Mikhail Gorbachev19
  35. Jean-Paul Sartre45
  36. Stephen Hawking8
  37. Le Corbusier63
  38. Frida Kahlo43
  39. Mother Teresa40
  40. Jimmy Carter26
  41. Benedict XVI23
  42. Harry S. Truman66
  43. Agatha Christie60
  44. Hillary Clinton3
  45. George H. W. Bush26
  46. Jorge Luis Borges51
  47. Jawaharlal Nehru61
  48. Dwight D. Eisenhower60
  49. Alan Turing38
  50. Richard Nixon37
  51. Alfred Hitchcock51
  52. Noam Chomsky22
  53. Simone de Beauvoir42
  54. George Bernard Shaw94 †
  55. Niels Bohr65
  56. Bertrand Russell78
  57. Muammar Gaddafi8
  58. John Lennon10
  59. Bob Dylan9
  60. Pelé10
  61. Muhammad Ali8
  62. Henri Matisse81
  63. Frank Lloyd Wright83
  64. Andy Warhol22
  65. Louis Armstrong49
  66. Kofi Annan12
  67. Akira Kurosawa40
  68. Lech Wałęsa7
  69. Freddie Mercury4
  70. Charles III2
  71. Lyndon B. Johnson42
  72. Gerald Ford37
  73. Ludwig Wittgenstein61
  74. Indira Gandhi33
  75. Narendra Modiborn
  76. Huang Xianfan51
  77. Enrico Fermi49
  78. Naguib Mahfouz39
  79. Aung San Suu Kyi5
  80. Steven Spielberg4
  81. Nikita Khrushchev56
  82. Saddam Hussein13
  83. Benjamin Netanyahu1
  84. Helen Keller70
  85. Tenzin Gyatso15
  86. Pablo Neruda46
  87. Igor Stravinsky68
  88. Thomas Mann75
  89. Bruce Lee10
  90. Erwin Schrödinger63
  91. Silvio Berlusconi14
  92. Bob Marley5
  93. Herbert Hoover76
  94. Hermann Hesse73
  95. Isaac Asimov30–31
  96. Ingmar Bergman32
  97. Federico Fellini30
  98. Mahathir Mohamad25
  99. Boris Yeltsin19
  100. Ali Khamenei11
  101. Kim Il-sung38
  102. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn32
  103. Jacques Chirac18
  104. T. S. Eliot62
  105. Stanley Kubrick22
  106. Kwame Nkrumah41
  107. Marlon Brando26
  108. Hirohito49
  109. Richard Feynman32
  110. Woody Allen15
  111. Bertolt Brecht52
  112. Yasser Arafat21
  113. Ho Chi Minh60
  114. Judy Garland28
  115. Ban Ki-moon6
  116. Arnold Schwarzenegger3
  117. Carl Jung75
  118. Brigitte Bardot16
  119. Vladimir Nabokov51
  120. Hebe Camargo21

The 120 best known of 693 are listed.