Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1958?

755 of the people we track were surely alive in 1958. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1958: Michael Jackson, Madonna, Olaf Scholz, Ursula von der Leyen, Prince, Gary Oldman, Michelle Pfeiffer and Sharon Stone.

Died in 1958: Pius XII, Rosalind Franklin, Wolfgang Pauli, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Roger Martin du Gard and Ernest Lawrence.

  1. Donald Trump12
  2. Michael Jacksonborn
  3. Vladimir Putin6
  4. Ronald Reagan47
  5. Nelson Mandela40
  6. George W. Bush12
  7. Joe Biden16
  8. Pablo Picasso77
  9. Winston Churchill84
  10. Charlie Chaplin69
  11. Elizabeth II32
  12. John F. Kennedy41
  13. Martin Luther King Jr.29
  14. Salvador Dalí54
  15. Bill Gates3
  16. Marilyn Monroe32
  17. Pope Francis22
  18. Mao Zedong65
  19. Steve Jobs3
  20. Che Guevara30
  21. Bill Clinton12
  22. Charles de Gaulle68
  23. Angela Merkel4
  24. Neil Armstrong28
  25. François Hollande4
  26. Walt Disney57
  27. Elvis Presley23
  28. Ernest Hemingway59
  29. Margaret Thatcher33
  30. John Paul II38
  31. Gabriel García Márquez31
  32. Fidel Castro32
  33. J. R. R. Tolkien66
  34. Albert Camus45
  35. Yuri Gagarin24
  36. Marlene Dietrich57
  37. Mikhail Gorbachev27
  38. Jean-Paul Sartre53
  39. Stephen Hawking16
  40. Le Corbusier71
  41. Mother Teresa48
  42. Jimmy Carter34
  43. Benedict XVI31
  44. Harry S. Truman74
  45. Agatha Christie68
  46. Hillary Clinton11
  47. George H. W. Bush34
  48. Jorge Luis Borges59
  49. Nicolas Sarkozy3
  50. Madonnaborn
  51. Jawaharlal Nehru69
  52. Dwight D. Eisenhower68
  53. Richard Nixon45
  54. Xi Jinping5
  55. Alfred Hitchcock59
  56. Noam Chomsky30
  57. Simone de Beauvoir50
  58. Hugo Chávez4
  59. Niels Bohr73
  60. Bertrand Russell86
  61. Muammar Gaddafi16
  62. John Lennon18
  63. Bob Dylan17
  64. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan4
  65. Pelé18
  66. Muhammad Ali16
  67. Frank Lloyd Wright91
  68. Andy Warhol30
  69. Louis Armstrong57
  70. Kofi Annan20
  71. Osama bin Laden1
  72. Akira Kurosawa48
  73. Lech Wałęsa15
  74. Freddie Mercury12
  75. Charles III10
  76. Lyndon B. Johnson50
  77. Gerald Ford45
  78. Leo XIV3
  79. Indira Gandhi41
  80. Narendra Modi8
  81. Huang Xianfan59
  82. Naguib Mahfouz47
  83. Aung San Suu Kyi13
  84. Steven Spielberg12
  85. Nikita Khrushchev64
  86. Saddam Hussein21
  87. Benjamin Netanyahu9
  88. Helen Keller78
  89. Tenzin Gyatso23
  90. Pablo Neruda54
  91. Rafael Orozco Maestre4
  92. Igor Stravinsky76
  93. Bruce Lee18
  94. Erwin Schrödinger71
  95. Silvio Berlusconi22
  96. Bob Marley13
  97. Shinzō Abe4
  98. Herbert Hoover84
  99. Hermann Hesse81
  100. Isaac Asimov38–39
  101. Tim Berners-Lee3
  102. Ingmar Bergman40
  103. Federico Fellini38
  104. Mahathir Mohamad33
  105. Boris Yeltsin27
  106. Ali Khamenei19
  107. Robin Williams7
  108. Jackie Chan4
  109. Kim Il-sung46
  110. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn40
  111. Jacques Chirac26
  112. Guillermo Lasso3
  113. T. S. Eliot70
  114. Stanley Kubrick30
  115. Kwame Nkrumah49
  116. Marlon Brando34
  117. Alexander Lukashenka4
  118. Hirohito57
  119. Richard Feynman40
  120. Woody Allen23

The 120 best known of 755 are listed.