Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1988?

865 of the people we track were surely alive in 1988. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1988: Rihanna, Adele, Emma Stone, Robert Lewandowski, Mesut Özil and Sergio Agüero.

Died in 1988: Richard Feynman and Robert A. Heinlein.

  1. Barack Obama27
  2. Donald Trump42
  3. Michael Jackson30
  4. Vladimir Putin36
  5. Ronald Reagan77
  6. Nelson Mandela70
  7. George W. Bush42
  8. Joe Biden46
  9. Elizabeth II62
  10. Salvador Dalí84
  11. Bill Gates33
  12. Jimmy Wales22
  13. Pope Francis52
  14. Shakira11
  15. Steve Jobs33
  16. Lionel Messi1
  17. Bill Clinton42
  18. Basshunter4
  19. Angela Merkel34
  20. Neil Armstrong58
  21. François Hollande34
  22. Cristiano Ronaldo3
  23. Volodymyr Zelenskyy10
  24. Margaret Thatcher63
  25. John Paul II68
  26. Gabriel García Márquez61
  27. Fidel Castro62
  28. Marlene Dietrich87
  29. Mikhail Gorbachev57
  30. Stephen Hawking46
  31. Elon Musk17
  32. Mother Teresa78
  33. Jimmy Carter64
  34. Benedict XVI61
  35. Emmanuel Macron11
  36. Hillary Clinton41
  37. Lady Gaga2
  38. George H. W. Bush64
  39. Nicolas Sarkozy33
  40. Madonna30
  41. Kamala Harris24
  42. Richard Nixon75
  43. Xi Jinping35
  44. Naruhito28
  45. Noam Chomsky60
  46. Hugo Chávez34
  47. Muammar Gaddafi46
  48. Sung Jae-gi21
  49. Bob Dylan47
  50. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan34
  51. Pelé48
  52. Muhammad Ali46
  53. J. K. Rowling23
  54. Kofi Annan50
  55. Osama bin Laden31
  56. Akira Kurosawa78
  57. Lech Wałęsa45
  58. Freddie Mercury42
  59. Charles III40
  60. Kim Jong-un4
  61. Gerald Ford75
  62. Diego Maradona28
  63. Eminem16
  64. Beyoncé7
  65. Leo XIV33
  66. Narendra Modi38
  67. Rafael Correa25
  68. Naguib Mahfouz77
  69. Aung San Suu Kyi43
  70. Steven Spielberg42
  71. Michael Schumacher19
  72. Angelina Jolie13
  73. Saddam Hussein51
  74. Benjamin Netanyahu39
  75. Tenzin Gyatso53
  76. Dmitry Medvedev23
  77. Anna Netrebko17
  78. Mark Zuckerberg4
  79. Rafael Orozco Maestre34
  80. Silvio Berlusconi52
  81. Shinzō Abe34
  82. Isaac Asimov68–69
  83. Tim Berners-Lee33
  84. Ingmar Bergman70
  85. Federico Fellini68
  86. Mahathir Mohamad63
  87. Boris Yeltsin57
  88. Ali Khamenei49
  89. Robin Williams37
  90. Jackie Chan34
  91. Kim Il-sung76
  92. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn70
  93. Jacques Chirac56
  94. Guillermo Lasso33
  95. Céline Dion20
  96. Stanley Kubrick60
  97. Roger Federer7
  98. Lana Del Rey3
  99. Marlon Brando64
  100. Alexander Lukashenka34
  101. Hirohito87
  102. Richard Feynman69 †
  103. Woody Allen53
  104. Tony Blair35
  105. Rihannaborn
  106. Scarlett Johansson4
  107. Yasser Arafat59
  108. Rafael Nadal2
  109. Ban Ki-moon44
  110. Arnold Schwarzenegger41
  111. David Cameron22
  112. Linus Torvalds19
  113. Brigitte Bardot54
  114. Novak Djokovic1
  115. Hebe Camargo59
  116. Umberto Eco56
  117. Boris Johnson24
  118. Benazir Bhutto35
  119. Jair Bolsonaro33
  120. Diana, Princess of Wales27

The 120 best known of 865 are listed.