Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1973?

830 of the people we track were surely alive in 1973. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1973: Aishwarya Rai, Larry Page, Zuzana Čaputová, Paul Walker and Sergey Brin.

Died in 1973: Pablo Picasso, J. R. R. Tolkien, Lyndon B. Johnson, Pablo Neruda, Bruce Lee, Pearl S. Buck, David Ben-Gurion and Salvador Allende.

  1. Barack Obama12
  2. Donald Trump27
  3. Michael Jackson15
  4. Vladimir Putin21
  5. Ronald Reagan62
  6. Nelson Mandela55
  7. George W. Bush27
  8. Joe Biden31
  9. Pablo Picasso91 †
  10. Charlie Chaplin84
  11. Elizabeth II47
  12. Salvador Dalí69
  13. Bill Gates18
  14. Jimmy Wales7
  15. Pope Francis37
  16. Mao Zedong80
  17. Steve Jobs18
  18. Bill Clinton27
  19. Angela Merkel19
  20. Neil Armstrong43
  21. François Hollande19
  22. Elvis Presley38
  23. Margaret Thatcher48
  24. John Paul II53
  25. Gabriel García Márquez46
  26. Fidel Castro47
  27. J. R. R. Tolkien81 †
  28. Marlene Dietrich72
  29. Mikhail Gorbachev42
  30. Jean-Paul Sartre68
  31. Stephen Hawking31
  32. Elon Musk2
  33. Mother Teresa63
  34. Jimmy Carter49
  35. Benedict XVI46
  36. Agatha Christie83
  37. Hillary Clinton26
  38. George H. W. Bush49
  39. Jorge Luis Borges74
  40. Nicolas Sarkozy18
  41. Madonna15
  42. Kamala Harris9
  43. Richard Nixon60
  44. Xi Jinping20
  45. Naruhito13
  46. Alfred Hitchcock74
  47. Noam Chomsky45
  48. Simone de Beauvoir65
  49. Hugo Chávez19
  50. Muammar Gaddafi31
  51. Sung Jae-gi6
  52. John Lennon33
  53. Bob Dylan32
  54. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan19
  55. Pelé33
  56. Muhammad Ali31
  57. J. K. Rowling8
  58. Andy Warhol45
  59. Kofi Annan35
  60. Osama bin Laden16
  61. Akira Kurosawa63
  62. Lech Wałęsa30
  63. Freddie Mercury27
  64. Charles III25
  65. Lyndon B. Johnson64 †
  66. Gerald Ford60
  67. Diego Maradona13
  68. Eminem1
  69. Leo XIV18
  70. Indira Gandhi56
  71. Narendra Modi23
  72. Rafael Correa10
  73. Huang Xianfan74
  74. Naguib Mahfouz62
  75. Aung San Suu Kyi28
  76. Steven Spielberg27
  77. Michael Schumacher4
  78. Saddam Hussein36
  79. Benjamin Netanyahu24
  80. Tenzin Gyatso38
  81. Dmitry Medvedev8
  82. Anna Netrebko2
  83. Pablo Neruda69 †
  84. Rafael Orozco Maestre19
  85. Bruce Lee32 †
  86. Silvio Berlusconi37
  87. Bob Marley28
  88. Shinzō Abe19
  89. Isaac Asimov53–54
  90. Tim Berners-Lee18
  91. Ingmar Bergman55
  92. Federico Fellini53
  93. Mahathir Mohamad48
  94. Boris Yeltsin42
  95. Ali Khamenei34
  96. Robin Williams22
  97. Jackie Chan19
  98. Kim Il-sung61
  99. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn55
  100. Jacques Chirac41
  101. Guillermo Lasso18
  102. Céline Dion5
  103. Stanley Kubrick45
  104. Marlon Brando49
  105. Alexander Lukashenka19
  106. Hirohito72
  107. Richard Feynman55
  108. Woody Allen38
  109. Tony Blair20
  110. Yasser Arafat44
  111. Ban Ki-moon29
  112. Arnold Schwarzenegger26
  113. David Cameron7
  114. Linus Torvalds4
  115. Brigitte Bardot39
  116. Vladimir Nabokov74
  117. Hebe Camargo44
  118. Umberto Eco41
  119. Boris Johnson9
  120. Benazir Bhutto20

The 120 best known of 830 are listed.