Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1979?

833 of the people we track were surely alive in 1979. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1979: Chris Pratt, Heath Ledger, Tawakkol Karman and Kimi Räikkönen.

Died in 1979: John Wayne, Mary Pickford, Park Chung-hee and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.

  1. Barack Obama18
  2. Donald Trump33
  3. Michael Jackson21
  4. Vladimir Putin27
  5. Ronald Reagan68
  6. Nelson Mandela61
  7. George W. Bush33
  8. Joe Biden37
  9. Elizabeth II53
  10. Salvador Dalí75
  11. Bill Gates24
  12. Jimmy Wales13
  13. Pope Francis43
  14. Shakira2
  15. Steve Jobs24
  16. Bill Clinton33
  17. Angela Merkel25
  18. Neil Armstrong49
  19. François Hollande25
  20. Volodymyr Zelenskyy1
  21. Margaret Thatcher54
  22. John Paul II59
  23. Gabriel García Márquez52
  24. Fidel Castro53
  25. Marlene Dietrich78
  26. Mikhail Gorbachev48
  27. Jean-Paul Sartre74
  28. Stephen Hawking37
  29. Elon Musk8
  30. Mother Teresa69
  31. Jimmy Carter55
  32. Benedict XVI52
  33. Emmanuel Macron2
  34. Hillary Clinton32
  35. George H. W. Bush55
  36. Jorge Luis Borges80
  37. Nicolas Sarkozy24
  38. Madonna21
  39. Kamala Harris15
  40. Richard Nixon66
  41. Xi Jinping26
  42. Naruhito19
  43. Alfred Hitchcock80
  44. Noam Chomsky51
  45. Simone de Beauvoir71
  46. Hugo Chávez25
  47. Muammar Gaddafi37
  48. Sung Jae-gi12
  49. John Lennon39
  50. Bob Dylan38
  51. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan25
  52. Pelé39
  53. Muhammad Ali37
  54. J. K. Rowling14
  55. Andy Warhol51
  56. Kofi Annan41
  57. Osama bin Laden22
  58. Akira Kurosawa69
  59. Lech Wałęsa36
  60. Freddie Mercury33
  61. Charles III31
  62. Gerald Ford66
  63. Diego Maradona19
  64. Eminem7
  65. Leo XIV24
  66. Indira Gandhi62
  67. Narendra Modi29
  68. Rafael Correa16
  69. Huang Xianfan80
  70. Naguib Mahfouz68
  71. Aung San Suu Kyi34
  72. Steven Spielberg33
  73. Michael Schumacher10
  74. Angelina Jolie4
  75. Saddam Hussein42
  76. Benjamin Netanyahu30
  77. Tenzin Gyatso44
  78. Dmitry Medvedev14
  79. Anna Netrebko8
  80. Rafael Orozco Maestre25
  81. Silvio Berlusconi43
  82. Bob Marley34
  83. Shinzō Abe25
  84. Isaac Asimov59–60
  85. Tim Berners-Lee24
  86. Ingmar Bergman61
  87. Federico Fellini59
  88. Mahathir Mohamad54
  89. Boris Yeltsin48
  90. Ali Khamenei40
  91. Robin Williams28
  92. Jackie Chan25
  93. Kim Il-sung67
  94. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn61
  95. Jacques Chirac47
  96. Guillermo Lasso24
  97. Céline Dion11
  98. Stanley Kubrick51
  99. Marlon Brando55
  100. Alexander Lukashenka25
  101. Hirohito78
  102. Richard Feynman61
  103. Woody Allen44
  104. Tony Blair26
  105. Yasser Arafat50
  106. Ban Ki-moon35
  107. Arnold Schwarzenegger32
  108. David Cameron13
  109. Linus Torvalds10
  110. Brigitte Bardot45
  111. Hebe Camargo50
  112. Umberto Eco47
  113. Boris Johnson15
  114. Benazir Bhutto26
  115. Jair Bolsonaro24
  116. Diana, Princess of Wales18
  117. Bashar al-Assad14
  118. Audrey Hepburn50
  119. Paul McCartney37
  120. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva34

The 120 best known of 833 are listed.