Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1983?

850 of the people we track were surely alive in 1983. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1983: Amy Winehouse, Andrew Garfield, Mila Kunis, Edward Snowden, Robin van Persie, Emily Blunt and Chris Hemsworth.

Died in 1983: Joan Miró, Tennessee Williams, Louis de Funès and Luis Buñuel.

  1. Barack Obama22
  2. Donald Trump37
  3. Michael Jackson25
  4. Vladimir Putin31
  5. Ronald Reagan72
  6. Nelson Mandela65
  7. George W. Bush37
  8. Joe Biden41
  9. Elizabeth II57
  10. Salvador Dalí79
  11. Bill Gates28
  12. Jimmy Wales17
  13. Pope Francis47
  14. Shakira6
  15. Steve Jobs28
  16. Bill Clinton37
  17. Angela Merkel29
  18. Neil Armstrong53
  19. François Hollande29
  20. Volodymyr Zelenskyy5
  21. Margaret Thatcher58
  22. John Paul II63
  23. Gabriel García Márquez56
  24. Fidel Castro57
  25. Marlene Dietrich82
  26. Mikhail Gorbachev52
  27. Stephen Hawking41
  28. Elon Musk12
  29. Mother Teresa73
  30. Jimmy Carter59
  31. Benedict XVI56
  32. Emmanuel Macron6
  33. Hillary Clinton36
  34. George H. W. Bush59
  35. Jorge Luis Borges84
  36. Nicolas Sarkozy28
  37. Madonna25
  38. Kamala Harris19
  39. Richard Nixon70
  40. Xi Jinping30
  41. Naruhito23
  42. Noam Chomsky55
  43. Simone de Beauvoir75
  44. Hugo Chávez29
  45. Muammar Gaddafi41
  46. Sung Jae-gi16
  47. Bob Dylan42
  48. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan29
  49. Pelé43
  50. Muhammad Ali41
  51. J. K. Rowling18
  52. Andy Warhol55
  53. Kofi Annan45
  54. Osama bin Laden26
  55. Akira Kurosawa73
  56. Lech Wałęsa40
  57. Freddie Mercury37
  58. Charles III35
  59. Gerald Ford70
  60. Diego Maradona23
  61. Eminem11
  62. Beyoncé2
  63. Leo XIV28
  64. Indira Gandhi66
  65. Narendra Modi33
  66. Rafael Correa20
  67. Naguib Mahfouz72
  68. Aung San Suu Kyi38
  69. Steven Spielberg37
  70. Michael Schumacher14
  71. Angelina Jolie8
  72. Saddam Hussein46
  73. Benjamin Netanyahu34
  74. Tenzin Gyatso48
  75. Dmitry Medvedev18
  76. Anna Netrebko12
  77. Rafael Orozco Maestre29
  78. Silvio Berlusconi47
  79. Shinzō Abe29
  80. Isaac Asimov63–64
  81. Tim Berners-Lee28
  82. Ingmar Bergman65
  83. Federico Fellini63
  84. Mahathir Mohamad58
  85. Boris Yeltsin52
  86. Ali Khamenei44
  87. Robin Williams32
  88. Jackie Chan29
  89. Kim Il-sung71
  90. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn65
  91. Jacques Chirac51
  92. Guillermo Lasso28
  93. Céline Dion15
  94. Stanley Kubrick55
  95. Roger Federer2
  96. Marlon Brando59
  97. Alexander Lukashenka29
  98. Hirohito82
  99. Richard Feynman65
  100. Woody Allen48
  101. Tony Blair30
  102. Yasser Arafat54
  103. Ban Ki-moon39
  104. Arnold Schwarzenegger36
  105. David Cameron17
  106. Linus Torvalds14
  107. Brigitte Bardot49
  108. Hebe Camargo54
  109. Umberto Eco51
  110. Boris Johnson19
  111. Benazir Bhutto30
  112. Jair Bolsonaro28
  113. Diana, Princess of Wales22
  114. Bashar al-Assad18
  115. Audrey Hepburn54
  116. Paul McCartney41
  117. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva38
  118. Anggun9
  119. Leonardo DiCaprio9
  120. Stephen King36

The 120 best known of 850 are listed.