Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1955?

734 of the people we track were surely alive in 1955. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1955: Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Nicolas Sarkozy, Leo XIV, Tim Berners-Lee, Guillermo Lasso, Jair Bolsonaro and Rowan Atkinson.

Died in 1955: Albert Einstein, Thomas Mann, Alexander Fleming, James Dean and Dale Carnegie.

  1. Donald Trump9
  2. Albert Einstein76 †
  3. Vladimir Putin3
  4. Ronald Reagan44
  5. Nelson Mandela37
  6. George W. Bush9
  7. Joe Biden13
  8. Pablo Picasso74
  9. Winston Churchill81
  10. Charlie Chaplin66
  11. Elizabeth II29
  12. John F. Kennedy38
  13. Martin Luther King Jr.26
  14. Salvador Dalí51
  15. Bill Gatesborn
  16. Marilyn Monroe29
  17. Pope Francis19
  18. Mao Zedong62
  19. Steve Jobsborn
  20. Che Guevara27
  21. Bill Clinton9
  22. Charles de Gaulle65
  23. Angela Merkel1
  24. Neil Armstrong25
  25. François Hollande1
  26. Walt Disney54
  27. Elvis Presley20
  28. Ernest Hemingway56
  29. Margaret Thatcher30
  30. John Paul II35
  31. Gabriel García Márquez28
  32. Fidel Castro29
  33. J. R. R. Tolkien63
  34. Albert Camus42
  35. Yuri Gagarin21
  36. Marlene Dietrich54
  37. Mikhail Gorbachev24
  38. Jean-Paul Sartre50
  39. Stephen Hawking13
  40. Le Corbusier68
  41. Mother Teresa45
  42. Jimmy Carter31
  43. Benedict XVI28
  44. Harry S. Truman71
  45. Agatha Christie65
  46. Hillary Clinton8
  47. George H. W. Bush31
  48. Jorge Luis Borges56
  49. Nicolas Sarkozyborn
  50. Jawaharlal Nehru66
  51. Dwight D. Eisenhower65
  52. Richard Nixon42
  53. Xi Jinping2
  54. Alfred Hitchcock56
  55. Noam Chomsky27
  56. Simone de Beauvoir47
  57. Hugo Chávez1
  58. Niels Bohr70
  59. Bertrand Russell83
  60. Muammar Gaddafi13
  61. John Lennon15
  62. Bob Dylan14
  63. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan1
  64. Pelé15
  65. Muhammad Ali13
  66. Frank Lloyd Wright88
  67. Andy Warhol27
  68. Louis Armstrong54
  69. Kofi Annan17
  70. Akira Kurosawa45
  71. Lech Wałęsa12
  72. Freddie Mercury9
  73. Charles III7
  74. Lyndon B. Johnson47
  75. Gerald Ford42
  76. Leo XIVborn
  77. Indira Gandhi38
  78. Narendra Modi5
  79. Huang Xianfan56
  80. Naguib Mahfouz44
  81. Aung San Suu Kyi10
  82. Steven Spielberg9
  83. Nikita Khrushchev61
  84. Saddam Hussein18
  85. Benjamin Netanyahu6
  86. Helen Keller75
  87. Tenzin Gyatso20
  88. Pablo Neruda51
  89. Rafael Orozco Maestre1
  90. Igor Stravinsky73
  91. Thomas Mann80 †
  92. Bruce Lee15
  93. Erwin Schrödinger68
  94. Silvio Berlusconi19
  95. Bob Marley10
  96. Shinzō Abe1
  97. Herbert Hoover81
  98. Hermann Hesse78
  99. Isaac Asimov35–36
  100. Tim Berners-Leeborn
  101. Ingmar Bergman37
  102. Federico Fellini35
  103. Mahathir Mohamad30
  104. Boris Yeltsin24
  105. Ali Khamenei16
  106. Robin Williams4
  107. Jackie Chan1
  108. Kim Il-sung43
  109. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn37
  110. Jacques Chirac23
  111. Guillermo Lassoborn
  112. T. S. Eliot67
  113. Stanley Kubrick27
  114. Kwame Nkrumah46
  115. Marlon Brando31
  116. Alexander Lukashenka1
  117. Hirohito54
  118. Richard Feynman37
  119. Woody Allen20
  120. Tony Blair2

The 120 best known of 734 are listed.