Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1962?

781 of the people we track were surely alive in 1962. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1962: Nicolás Maduro, Jim Carrey, Tom Cruise, Keir Starmer, Jodie Foster, Abdullah II of Jordan, Demi Moore and Olga Tokarczuk.

Died in 1962: Marilyn Monroe, Niels Bohr, Hermann Hesse, Eleanor Roosevelt, William Faulkner, Adolf Eichmann and Karen Blixen.

  1. Barack Obama1
  2. Donald Trump16
  3. Michael Jackson4
  4. Vladimir Putin10
  5. Ronald Reagan51
  6. Nelson Mandela44
  7. George W. Bush16
  8. Joe Biden20
  9. Pablo Picasso81
  10. Winston Churchill88
  11. Charlie Chaplin73
  12. Elizabeth II36
  13. John F. Kennedy45
  14. Martin Luther King Jr.33
  15. Salvador Dalí58
  16. Bill Gates7
  17. Marilyn Monroe36 †
  18. Pope Francis26
  19. Mao Zedong69
  20. Steve Jobs7
  21. Che Guevara34
  22. Bill Clinton16
  23. Charles de Gaulle72
  24. Angela Merkel8
  25. Neil Armstrong32
  26. François Hollande8
  27. Walt Disney61
  28. Elvis Presley27
  29. Margaret Thatcher37
  30. John Paul II42
  31. Gabriel García Márquez35
  32. Fidel Castro36
  33. J. R. R. Tolkien70
  34. Yuri Gagarin28
  35. Marlene Dietrich61
  36. Mikhail Gorbachev31
  37. Jean-Paul Sartre57
  38. Stephen Hawking20
  39. Le Corbusier75
  40. Mother Teresa52
  41. Jimmy Carter38
  42. Benedict XVI35
  43. Harry S. Truman78
  44. Agatha Christie72
  45. Hillary Clinton15
  46. George H. W. Bush38
  47. Jorge Luis Borges63
  48. Nicolas Sarkozy7
  49. Madonna4
  50. Jawaharlal Nehru73
  51. Dwight D. Eisenhower72
  52. Richard Nixon49
  53. Xi Jinping9
  54. Naruhito2
  55. Alfred Hitchcock63
  56. Noam Chomsky34
  57. Simone de Beauvoir54
  58. Hugo Chávez8
  59. Niels Bohr77 †
  60. Bertrand Russell90
  61. Muammar Gaddafi20
  62. John Lennon22
  63. Bob Dylan21
  64. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan8
  65. Pelé22
  66. Muhammad Ali20
  67. Andy Warhol34
  68. Louis Armstrong61
  69. Kofi Annan24
  70. Osama bin Laden5
  71. Akira Kurosawa52
  72. Lech Wałęsa19
  73. Freddie Mercury16
  74. Charles III14
  75. Lyndon B. Johnson54
  76. Gerald Ford49
  77. Diego Maradona2
  78. Leo XIV7
  79. Indira Gandhi45
  80. Narendra Modi12
  81. Huang Xianfan63
  82. Naguib Mahfouz51
  83. Aung San Suu Kyi17
  84. Steven Spielberg16
  85. Nikita Khrushchev68
  86. Saddam Hussein25
  87. Benjamin Netanyahu13
  88. Helen Keller82
  89. Tenzin Gyatso27
  90. Pablo Neruda58
  91. Rafael Orozco Maestre8
  92. Igor Stravinsky80
  93. Bruce Lee22
  94. Silvio Berlusconi26
  95. Bob Marley17
  96. Shinzō Abe8
  97. Herbert Hoover88
  98. Hermann Hesse85 †
  99. Isaac Asimov42–43
  100. Tim Berners-Lee7
  101. Ingmar Bergman44
  102. Federico Fellini42
  103. Mahathir Mohamad37
  104. Boris Yeltsin31
  105. Ali Khamenei23
  106. Robin Williams11
  107. Jackie Chan8
  108. Kim Il-sung50
  109. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn44
  110. Jacques Chirac30
  111. Guillermo Lasso7
  112. T. S. Eliot74
  113. Stanley Kubrick34
  114. Kwame Nkrumah53
  115. Marlon Brando38
  116. Alexander Lukashenka8
  117. Hirohito61
  118. Richard Feynman44
  119. Woody Allen27
  120. Tony Blair9

The 120 best known of 781 are listed.