Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1971?

825 of the people we track were surely alive in 1971. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1971: Elon Musk, Anna Netrebko, Justin Trudeau, Julian Assange, Tupac Shakur, Jeremy Renner, Selena and Lance Armstrong.

Died in 1971: Louis Armstrong, Nikita Khrushchev, Igor Stravinsky, Jim Morrison, Coco Chanel, Giorgos Seferis and William Lawrence Bragg.

  1. Barack Obama10
  2. Donald Trump25
  3. Michael Jackson13
  4. Vladimir Putin19
  5. Ronald Reagan60
  6. Nelson Mandela53
  7. George W. Bush25
  8. Joe Biden29
  9. Pablo Picasso90
  10. Charlie Chaplin82
  11. Elizabeth II45
  12. Salvador Dalí67
  13. Bill Gates16
  14. Jimmy Wales5
  15. Pope Francis35
  16. Mao Zedong78
  17. Steve Jobs16
  18. Bill Clinton25
  19. Angela Merkel17
  20. Neil Armstrong41
  21. François Hollande17
  22. Elvis Presley36
  23. Margaret Thatcher46
  24. John Paul II51
  25. Gabriel García Márquez44
  26. Fidel Castro45
  27. J. R. R. Tolkien79
  28. Marlene Dietrich70
  29. Mikhail Gorbachev40
  30. Jean-Paul Sartre66
  31. Stephen Hawking29
  32. Elon Muskborn
  33. Mother Teresa61
  34. Jimmy Carter47
  35. Benedict XVI44
  36. Harry S. Truman87
  37. Agatha Christie81
  38. Hillary Clinton24
  39. George H. W. Bush47
  40. Jorge Luis Borges72
  41. Nicolas Sarkozy16
  42. Madonna13
  43. Kamala Harris7
  44. Richard Nixon58
  45. Xi Jinping18
  46. Naruhito11
  47. Alfred Hitchcock72
  48. Noam Chomsky43
  49. Simone de Beauvoir63
  50. Hugo Chávez17
  51. Muammar Gaddafi29
  52. Sung Jae-gi4
  53. John Lennon31
  54. Bob Dylan30
  55. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan17
  56. Pelé31
  57. Muhammad Ali29
  58. J. K. Rowling6
  59. Andy Warhol43
  60. Louis Armstrong69 †
  61. Kofi Annan33
  62. Osama bin Laden14
  63. Akira Kurosawa61
  64. Lech Wałęsa28
  65. Freddie Mercury25
  66. Charles III23
  67. Lyndon B. Johnson63
  68. Gerald Ford58
  69. Diego Maradona11
  70. Leo XIV16
  71. Indira Gandhi54
  72. Narendra Modi21
  73. Rafael Correa8
  74. Huang Xianfan72
  75. Naguib Mahfouz60
  76. Aung San Suu Kyi26
  77. Steven Spielberg25
  78. Michael Schumacher2
  79. Nikita Khrushchev77 †
  80. Saddam Hussein34
  81. Benjamin Netanyahu22
  82. Tenzin Gyatso36
  83. Dmitry Medvedev6
  84. Anna Netrebkoborn
  85. Pablo Neruda67
  86. Rafael Orozco Maestre17
  87. Igor Stravinsky88 †
  88. Bruce Lee31
  89. Silvio Berlusconi35
  90. Bob Marley26
  91. Shinzō Abe17
  92. Isaac Asimov51–52
  93. Tim Berners-Lee16
  94. Ingmar Bergman53
  95. Federico Fellini51
  96. Mahathir Mohamad46
  97. Boris Yeltsin40
  98. Ali Khamenei32
  99. Robin Williams20
  100. Jackie Chan17
  101. Kim Il-sung59
  102. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn53
  103. Jacques Chirac39
  104. Guillermo Lasso16
  105. Céline Dion3
  106. Stanley Kubrick43
  107. Kwame Nkrumah62
  108. Marlon Brando47
  109. Alexander Lukashenka17
  110. Hirohito70
  111. Richard Feynman53
  112. Woody Allen36
  113. Tony Blair18
  114. Yasser Arafat42
  115. Ban Ki-moon27
  116. Arnold Schwarzenegger24
  117. David Cameron5
  118. Linus Torvalds2
  119. Brigitte Bardot37
  120. Vladimir Nabokov72

The 120 best known of 825 are listed.