Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1957?

746 of the people we track were surely alive in 1957. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1957: Osama bin Laden, Donald Tusk, Dani Rodrik, Hamid Karzai, Daniel Day-Lewis, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, Fumio Kishida and Kevin Rudd.

Died in 1957: Gabriela Mistral, John von Neumann, Humphrey Bogart and Jean Sibelius.

  1. Donald Trump11
  2. Vladimir Putin5
  3. Ronald Reagan46
  4. Nelson Mandela39
  5. George W. Bush11
  6. Joe Biden15
  7. Pablo Picasso76
  8. Winston Churchill83
  9. Charlie Chaplin68
  10. Elizabeth II31
  11. John F. Kennedy40
  12. Martin Luther King Jr.28
  13. Salvador Dalí53
  14. Bill Gates2
  15. Marilyn Monroe31
  16. Pope Francis21
  17. Mao Zedong64
  18. Steve Jobs2
  19. Che Guevara29
  20. Bill Clinton11
  21. Charles de Gaulle67
  22. Angela Merkel3
  23. Neil Armstrong27
  24. François Hollande3
  25. Walt Disney56
  26. Elvis Presley22
  27. Ernest Hemingway58
  28. Margaret Thatcher32
  29. John Paul II37
  30. Gabriel García Márquez30
  31. Fidel Castro31
  32. J. R. R. Tolkien65
  33. Albert Camus44
  34. Yuri Gagarin23
  35. Marlene Dietrich56
  36. Mikhail Gorbachev26
  37. Jean-Paul Sartre52
  38. Stephen Hawking15
  39. Le Corbusier70
  40. Mother Teresa47
  41. Jimmy Carter33
  42. Benedict XVI30
  43. Harry S. Truman73
  44. Agatha Christie67
  45. Hillary Clinton10
  46. George H. W. Bush33
  47. Jorge Luis Borges58
  48. Nicolas Sarkozy2
  49. Jawaharlal Nehru68
  50. Dwight D. Eisenhower67
  51. Richard Nixon44
  52. Xi Jinping4
  53. Alfred Hitchcock58
  54. Noam Chomsky29
  55. Simone de Beauvoir49
  56. Hugo Chávez3
  57. Niels Bohr72
  58. Bertrand Russell85
  59. Muammar Gaddafi15
  60. John Lennon17
  61. Bob Dylan16
  62. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan3
  63. Pelé17
  64. Muhammad Ali15
  65. Frank Lloyd Wright90
  66. Andy Warhol29
  67. Louis Armstrong56
  68. Kofi Annan19
  69. Osama bin Ladenborn
  70. Akira Kurosawa47
  71. Lech Wałęsa14
  72. Freddie Mercury11
  73. Charles III9
  74. Lyndon B. Johnson49
  75. Gerald Ford44
  76. Leo XIV2
  77. Indira Gandhi40
  78. Narendra Modi7
  79. Huang Xianfan58
  80. Naguib Mahfouz46
  81. Aung San Suu Kyi12
  82. Steven Spielberg11
  83. Nikita Khrushchev63
  84. Saddam Hussein20
  85. Benjamin Netanyahu8
  86. Helen Keller77
  87. Tenzin Gyatso22
  88. Pablo Neruda53
  89. Rafael Orozco Maestre3
  90. Igor Stravinsky75
  91. Bruce Lee17
  92. Erwin Schrödinger70
  93. Silvio Berlusconi21
  94. Bob Marley12
  95. Shinzō Abe3
  96. Herbert Hoover83
  97. Hermann Hesse80
  98. Isaac Asimov37–38
  99. Tim Berners-Lee2
  100. Ingmar Bergman39
  101. Federico Fellini37
  102. Mahathir Mohamad32
  103. Boris Yeltsin26
  104. Ali Khamenei18
  105. Robin Williams6
  106. Jackie Chan3
  107. Kim Il-sung45
  108. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn39
  109. Jacques Chirac25
  110. Guillermo Lasso2
  111. T. S. Eliot69
  112. Stanley Kubrick29
  113. Kwame Nkrumah48
  114. Marlon Brando33
  115. Alexander Lukashenka3
  116. Hirohito56
  117. Richard Feynman39
  118. Woody Allen22
  119. Tony Blair4
  120. Yasser Arafat28

The 120 best known of 746 are listed.