Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1982?

850 of the people we track were surely alive in 1982. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1982: Elisha Cuthbert, Nicki Minaj, Anne Hathaway, William, Prince of Wales, Catherine, Princess of Wales, Priyanka Chopra, Noemi and Marjorie Estiano.

Died in 1982: Huang Xianfan, Leonid Brezhnev, Ayn Rand, Ingrid Bergman, Grace Kelly, Henry Fonda and Philip K. Dick.

  1. Barack Obama21
  2. Donald Trump36
  3. Michael Jackson24
  4. Vladimir Putin30
  5. Ronald Reagan71
  6. Nelson Mandela64
  7. George W. Bush36
  8. Joe Biden40
  9. Elizabeth II56
  10. Salvador Dalí78
  11. Bill Gates27
  12. Jimmy Wales16
  13. Pope Francis46
  14. Shakira5
  15. Steve Jobs27
  16. Bill Clinton36
  17. Angela Merkel28
  18. Neil Armstrong52
  19. François Hollande28
  20. Volodymyr Zelenskyy4
  21. Margaret Thatcher57
  22. John Paul II62
  23. Gabriel García Márquez55
  24. Fidel Castro56
  25. Marlene Dietrich81
  26. Mikhail Gorbachev51
  27. Stephen Hawking40
  28. Elon Musk11
  29. Mother Teresa72
  30. Jimmy Carter58
  31. Benedict XVI55
  32. Emmanuel Macron5
  33. Hillary Clinton35
  34. George H. W. Bush58
  35. Jorge Luis Borges83
  36. Nicolas Sarkozy27
  37. Madonna24
  38. Kamala Harris18
  39. Richard Nixon69
  40. Xi Jinping29
  41. Naruhito22
  42. Noam Chomsky54
  43. Simone de Beauvoir74
  44. Hugo Chávez28
  45. Muammar Gaddafi40
  46. Sung Jae-gi15
  47. Bob Dylan41
  48. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan28
  49. Pelé42
  50. Muhammad Ali40
  51. J. K. Rowling17
  52. Andy Warhol54
  53. Kofi Annan44
  54. Osama bin Laden25
  55. Akira Kurosawa72
  56. Lech Wałęsa39
  57. Freddie Mercury36
  58. Charles III34
  59. Gerald Ford69
  60. Diego Maradona22
  61. Eminem10
  62. Beyoncé1
  63. Leo XIV27
  64. Indira Gandhi65
  65. Narendra Modi32
  66. Rafael Correa19
  67. Huang Xianfan82 †
  68. Naguib Mahfouz71
  69. Aung San Suu Kyi37
  70. Steven Spielberg36
  71. Michael Schumacher13
  72. Angelina Jolie7
  73. Saddam Hussein45
  74. Benjamin Netanyahu33
  75. Tenzin Gyatso47
  76. Dmitry Medvedev17
  77. Anna Netrebko11
  78. Rafael Orozco Maestre28
  79. Silvio Berlusconi46
  80. Shinzō Abe28
  81. Isaac Asimov62–63
  82. Tim Berners-Lee27
  83. Ingmar Bergman64
  84. Federico Fellini62
  85. Mahathir Mohamad57
  86. Boris Yeltsin51
  87. Ali Khamenei43
  88. Robin Williams31
  89. Jackie Chan28
  90. Kim Il-sung70
  91. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn64
  92. Jacques Chirac50
  93. Guillermo Lasso27
  94. Céline Dion14
  95. Stanley Kubrick54
  96. Roger Federer1
  97. Marlon Brando58
  98. Alexander Lukashenka28
  99. Hirohito81
  100. Richard Feynman64
  101. Woody Allen47
  102. Tony Blair29
  103. Yasser Arafat53
  104. Ban Ki-moon38
  105. Arnold Schwarzenegger35
  106. David Cameron16
  107. Linus Torvalds13
  108. Brigitte Bardot48
  109. Hebe Camargo53
  110. Umberto Eco50
  111. Boris Johnson18
  112. Benazir Bhutto29
  113. Jair Bolsonaro27
  114. Diana, Princess of Wales21
  115. Bashar al-Assad17
  116. Audrey Hepburn53
  117. Paul McCartney40
  118. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva37
  119. Anggun8
  120. Leonardo DiCaprio8

The 120 best known of 850 are listed.