Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1966?

801 of the people we track were surely alive in 1966. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1966: Jimmy Wales, David Cameron, Halle Berry, Benedicta Boccoli, Mike Tyson, Salma Hayek, Janet Jackson and George Weah.

Died in 1966: Walt Disney, Anna Akhmatova and Buster Keaton.

  1. Barack Obama5
  2. Donald Trump20
  3. Michael Jackson8
  4. Vladimir Putin14
  5. Ronald Reagan55
  6. Nelson Mandela48
  7. George W. Bush20
  8. Joe Biden24
  9. Pablo Picasso85
  10. Charlie Chaplin77
  11. Elizabeth II40
  12. Martin Luther King Jr.37
  13. Salvador Dalí62
  14. Bill Gates11
  15. Jimmy Walesborn
  16. Pope Francis30
  17. Mao Zedong73
  18. Steve Jobs11
  19. Che Guevara38
  20. Bill Clinton20
  21. Charles de Gaulle76
  22. Angela Merkel12
  23. Neil Armstrong36
  24. François Hollande12
  25. Walt Disney65 †
  26. Elvis Presley31
  27. Margaret Thatcher41
  28. John Paul II46
  29. Gabriel García Márquez39
  30. Fidel Castro40
  31. J. R. R. Tolkien74
  32. Yuri Gagarin32
  33. Marlene Dietrich65
  34. Mikhail Gorbachev35
  35. Jean-Paul Sartre61
  36. Stephen Hawking24
  37. Mother Teresa56
  38. Jimmy Carter42
  39. Benedict XVI39
  40. Harry S. Truman82
  41. Agatha Christie76
  42. Hillary Clinton19
  43. George H. W. Bush42
  44. Jorge Luis Borges67
  45. Nicolas Sarkozy11
  46. Madonna8
  47. Kamala Harris2
  48. Dwight D. Eisenhower76
  49. Richard Nixon53
  50. Xi Jinping13
  51. Naruhito6
  52. Alfred Hitchcock67
  53. Noam Chomsky38
  54. Simone de Beauvoir58
  55. Hugo Chávez12
  56. Bertrand Russell94
  57. Muammar Gaddafi24
  58. John Lennon26
  59. Bob Dylan25
  60. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan12
  61. Pelé26
  62. Muhammad Ali24
  63. J. K. Rowling1
  64. Andy Warhol38
  65. Louis Armstrong65
  66. Kofi Annan28
  67. Osama bin Laden9
  68. Akira Kurosawa56
  69. Lech Wałęsa23
  70. Freddie Mercury20
  71. Charles III18
  72. Lyndon B. Johnson58
  73. Gerald Ford53
  74. Diego Maradona6
  75. Leo XIV11
  76. Indira Gandhi49
  77. Narendra Modi16
  78. Rafael Correa3
  79. Huang Xianfan67
  80. Naguib Mahfouz55
  81. Aung San Suu Kyi21
  82. Steven Spielberg20
  83. Nikita Khrushchev72
  84. Saddam Hussein29
  85. Benjamin Netanyahu17
  86. Helen Keller86
  87. Tenzin Gyatso31
  88. Dmitry Medvedev1
  89. Pablo Neruda62
  90. Rafael Orozco Maestre12
  91. Igor Stravinsky84
  92. Bruce Lee26
  93. Silvio Berlusconi30
  94. Bob Marley21
  95. Shinzō Abe12
  96. Isaac Asimov46–47
  97. Tim Berners-Lee11
  98. Ingmar Bergman48
  99. Federico Fellini46
  100. Mahathir Mohamad41
  101. Boris Yeltsin35
  102. Ali Khamenei27
  103. Robin Williams15
  104. Jackie Chan12
  105. Kim Il-sung54
  106. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn48
  107. Jacques Chirac34
  108. Guillermo Lasso11
  109. Stanley Kubrick38
  110. Kwame Nkrumah57
  111. Marlon Brando42
  112. Alexander Lukashenka12
  113. Hirohito65
  114. Richard Feynman48
  115. Woody Allen31
  116. Tony Blair13
  117. Yasser Arafat37
  118. Ho Chi Minh76
  119. Judy Garland44
  120. Ban Ki-moon22

The 120 best known of 801 are listed.