Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1976?

836 of the people we track were surely alive in 1976. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1976: Alexei Navalny, Francesco Totti, Ronaldo, Reese Witherspoon, Chester Bennington, Abiy Ahmed and Ryan Reynolds.

Died in 1976: Mao Zedong, Agatha Christie, Martin Heidegger, Werner Heisenberg, Zhou Enlai, André Malraux and Alvar Aalto.

  1. Barack Obama15
  2. Donald Trump30
  3. Michael Jackson18
  4. Vladimir Putin24
  5. Ronald Reagan65
  6. Nelson Mandela58
  7. George W. Bush30
  8. Joe Biden34
  9. Charlie Chaplin87
  10. Elizabeth II50
  11. Salvador Dalí72
  12. Bill Gates21
  13. Jimmy Wales10
  14. Pope Francis40
  15. Mao Zedong82 †
  16. Steve Jobs21
  17. Bill Clinton30
  18. Angela Merkel22
  19. Neil Armstrong46
  20. François Hollande22
  21. Elvis Presley41
  22. Margaret Thatcher51
  23. John Paul II56
  24. Gabriel García Márquez49
  25. Fidel Castro50
  26. Marlene Dietrich75
  27. Mikhail Gorbachev45
  28. Jean-Paul Sartre71
  29. Stephen Hawking34
  30. Elon Musk5
  31. Mother Teresa66
  32. Jimmy Carter52
  33. Benedict XVI49
  34. Agatha Christie85 †
  35. Hillary Clinton29
  36. George H. W. Bush52
  37. Jorge Luis Borges77
  38. Nicolas Sarkozy21
  39. Madonna18
  40. Kamala Harris12
  41. Richard Nixon63
  42. Xi Jinping23
  43. Naruhito16
  44. Alfred Hitchcock77
  45. Noam Chomsky48
  46. Simone de Beauvoir68
  47. Hugo Chávez22
  48. Muammar Gaddafi34
  49. Sung Jae-gi9
  50. John Lennon36
  51. Bob Dylan35
  52. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan22
  53. Pelé36
  54. Muhammad Ali34
  55. J. K. Rowling11
  56. Andy Warhol48
  57. Kofi Annan38
  58. Osama bin Laden19
  59. Akira Kurosawa66
  60. Lech Wałęsa33
  61. Freddie Mercury30
  62. Charles III28
  63. Gerald Ford63
  64. Diego Maradona16
  65. Eminem4
  66. Leo XIV21
  67. Indira Gandhi59
  68. Narendra Modi26
  69. Rafael Correa13
  70. Huang Xianfan77
  71. Naguib Mahfouz65
  72. Aung San Suu Kyi31
  73. Steven Spielberg30
  74. Michael Schumacher7
  75. Angelina Jolie1
  76. Saddam Hussein39
  77. Benjamin Netanyahu27
  78. Tenzin Gyatso41
  79. Dmitry Medvedev11
  80. Anna Netrebko5
  81. Rafael Orozco Maestre22
  82. Silvio Berlusconi40
  83. Bob Marley31
  84. Shinzō Abe22
  85. Isaac Asimov56–57
  86. Tim Berners-Lee21
  87. Ingmar Bergman58
  88. Federico Fellini56
  89. Mahathir Mohamad51
  90. Boris Yeltsin45
  91. Ali Khamenei37
  92. Robin Williams25
  93. Jackie Chan22
  94. Kim Il-sung64
  95. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn58
  96. Jacques Chirac44
  97. Guillermo Lasso21
  98. Céline Dion8
  99. Stanley Kubrick48
  100. Marlon Brando52
  101. Alexander Lukashenka22
  102. Hirohito75
  103. Richard Feynman58
  104. Woody Allen41
  105. Tony Blair23
  106. Yasser Arafat47
  107. Ban Ki-moon32
  108. Arnold Schwarzenegger29
  109. David Cameron10
  110. Linus Torvalds7
  111. Brigitte Bardot42
  112. Vladimir Nabokov77
  113. Hebe Camargo47
  114. Umberto Eco44
  115. Boris Johnson12
  116. Benazir Bhutto23
  117. Jair Bolsonaro21
  118. Diana, Princess of Wales15
  119. Bashar al-Assad11
  120. Audrey Hepburn47

The 120 best known of 836 are listed.