Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1980?

841 of the people we track were surely alive in 1980. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1980: Rishi Sunak, Christina Aguilera, Chris Pine, Ronaldinho, Kim Kardashian, Jacinda Ardern, Xavi Hernández and Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck.

Died in 1980: Jean-Paul Sartre, Alfred Hitchcock, John Lennon, Josip Broz Tito, Vladimir Vysotsky, Mohammad Reza I of Iran, Mae West and Jean Piaget.

  1. Barack Obama19
  2. Donald Trump34
  3. Michael Jackson22
  4. Vladimir Putin28
  5. Ronald Reagan69
  6. Nelson Mandela62
  7. George W. Bush34
  8. Joe Biden38
  9. Elizabeth II54
  10. Salvador Dalí76
  11. Bill Gates25
  12. Jimmy Wales14
  13. Pope Francis44
  14. Shakira3
  15. Steve Jobs25
  16. Bill Clinton34
  17. Angela Merkel26
  18. Neil Armstrong50
  19. François Hollande26
  20. Volodymyr Zelenskyy2
  21. Margaret Thatcher55
  22. John Paul II60
  23. Gabriel García Márquez53
  24. Fidel Castro54
  25. Marlene Dietrich79
  26. Mikhail Gorbachev49
  27. Jean-Paul Sartre74 †
  28. Stephen Hawking38
  29. Elon Musk9
  30. Mother Teresa70
  31. Jimmy Carter56
  32. Benedict XVI53
  33. Emmanuel Macron3
  34. Hillary Clinton33
  35. George H. W. Bush56
  36. Jorge Luis Borges81
  37. Nicolas Sarkozy25
  38. Madonna22
  39. Kamala Harris16
  40. Richard Nixon67
  41. Xi Jinping27
  42. Naruhito20
  43. Alfred Hitchcock80 †
  44. Noam Chomsky52
  45. Simone de Beauvoir72
  46. Hugo Chávez26
  47. Muammar Gaddafi38
  48. Sung Jae-gi13
  49. John Lennon40 †
  50. Bob Dylan39
  51. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan26
  52. Pelé40
  53. Muhammad Ali38
  54. J. K. Rowling15
  55. Andy Warhol52
  56. Kofi Annan42
  57. Osama bin Laden23
  58. Akira Kurosawa70
  59. Lech Wałęsa37
  60. Freddie Mercury34
  61. Charles III32
  62. Gerald Ford67
  63. Diego Maradona20
  64. Eminem8
  65. Leo XIV25
  66. Indira Gandhi63
  67. Narendra Modi30
  68. Rafael Correa17
  69. Huang Xianfan81
  70. Naguib Mahfouz69
  71. Aung San Suu Kyi35
  72. Steven Spielberg34
  73. Michael Schumacher11
  74. Angelina Jolie5
  75. Saddam Hussein43
  76. Benjamin Netanyahu31
  77. Tenzin Gyatso45
  78. Dmitry Medvedev15
  79. Anna Netrebko9
  80. Rafael Orozco Maestre26
  81. Silvio Berlusconi44
  82. Bob Marley35
  83. Shinzō Abe26
  84. Isaac Asimov60–61
  85. Tim Berners-Lee25
  86. Ingmar Bergman62
  87. Federico Fellini60
  88. Mahathir Mohamad55
  89. Boris Yeltsin49
  90. Ali Khamenei41
  91. Robin Williams29
  92. Jackie Chan26
  93. Kim Il-sung68
  94. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn62
  95. Jacques Chirac48
  96. Guillermo Lasso25
  97. Céline Dion12
  98. Stanley Kubrick52
  99. Marlon Brando56
  100. Alexander Lukashenka26
  101. Hirohito79
  102. Richard Feynman62
  103. Woody Allen45
  104. Tony Blair27
  105. Yasser Arafat51
  106. Ban Ki-moon36
  107. Arnold Schwarzenegger33
  108. David Cameron14
  109. Linus Torvalds11
  110. Brigitte Bardot46
  111. Hebe Camargo51
  112. Umberto Eco48
  113. Boris Johnson16
  114. Benazir Bhutto27
  115. Jair Bolsonaro25
  116. Diana, Princess of Wales19
  117. Bashar al-Assad15
  118. Audrey Hepburn51
  119. Paul McCartney38
  120. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva35

The 120 best known of 841 are listed.