Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1994?

853 of the people we track were surely alive in 1994. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1994: Justin Bieber.

Died in 1994: Richard Nixon, Kim Il-sung, Karl Popper, Linus Pauling, Elias Canetti, Ayrton Senna, Dorothy Hodgkin and Charles Bukowski.

  1. Barack Obama33
  2. Donald Trump48
  3. Michael Jackson36
  4. Vladimir Putin42
  5. Ronald Reagan83
  6. Nelson Mandela76
  7. George W. Bush48
  8. Joe Biden52
  9. Elizabeth II68
  10. Bill Gates39
  11. Jimmy Wales28
  12. Pope Francis58
  13. Shakira17
  14. Steve Jobs39
  15. Lionel Messi7
  16. Corbin Bleu5
  17. Bill Clinton48
  18. Basshunter10
  19. Angela Merkel40
  20. Neil Armstrong64
  21. François Hollande40
  22. Cristiano Ronaldo9
  23. Volodymyr Zelenskyy16
  24. Margaret Thatcher69
  25. John Paul II74
  26. Gabriel García Márquez67
  27. Fidel Castro68
  28. Mikhail Gorbachev63
  29. Stephen Hawking52
  30. Elon Musk23
  31. Mother Teresa84
  32. Jimmy Carter70
  33. Benedict XVI67
  34. Emmanuel Macron17
  35. Hillary Clinton47
  36. Lady Gaga8
  37. George H. W. Bush70
  38. Nicolas Sarkozy39
  39. Madonna36
  40. Kamala Harris30
  41. Richard Nixon81 †
  42. Xi Jinping41
  43. Naruhito34
  44. Noam Chomsky66
  45. Hugo Chávez40
  46. Muammar Gaddafi52
  47. Sung Jae-gi27
  48. Bob Dylan53
  49. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan40
  50. Pelé54
  51. Muhammad Ali52
  52. J. K. Rowling29
  53. Justin Bieberborn
  54. Kofi Annan56
  55. Taylor Swift5
  56. Osama bin Laden37
  57. Akira Kurosawa84
  58. Lech Wałęsa51
  59. Charles III46
  60. Kim Jong-un10
  61. Gerald Ford81
  62. Diego Maradona34
  63. Eminem22
  64. Beyoncé13
  65. Selena Gomez2
  66. Leo XIV39
  67. Narendra Modi44
  68. Rafael Correa31
  69. Naguib Mahfouz83
  70. Aung San Suu Kyi49
  71. Steven Spielberg48
  72. Michael Schumacher25
  73. Angelina Jolie19
  74. Saddam Hussein57
  75. Benjamin Netanyahu45
  76. Tenzin Gyatso59
  77. Dmitry Medvedev29
  78. Anna Netrebko23
  79. Mark Zuckerberg10
  80. Silvio Berlusconi58
  81. Shinzō Abe40
  82. Tim Berners-Lee39
  83. Ingmar Bergman76
  84. Mahathir Mohamad69
  85. Boris Yeltsin63
  86. Ali Khamenei55
  87. Robin Williams43
  88. Jackie Chan40
  89. Kim Il-sung82 †
  90. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn76
  91. Jacques Chirac62
  92. Guillermo Lasso39
  93. Céline Dion26
  94. Stanley Kubrick66
  95. Roger Federer13
  96. Lana Del Rey9
  97. Marlon Brando70
  98. Alexander Lukashenka40
  99. Woody Allen59
  100. Tony Blair41
  101. Rihanna6
  102. Neymar2
  103. Scarlett Johansson10
  104. Yasser Arafat65
  105. Rafael Nadal8
  106. Ban Ki-moon50
  107. Arnold Schwarzenegger47
  108. David Cameron28
  109. Linus Torvalds25
  110. Brigitte Bardot60
  111. Novak Djokovic7
  112. Hebe Camargo65
  113. Umberto Eco62
  114. Boris Johnson30
  115. Benazir Bhutto41
  116. Jair Bolsonaro39
  117. Diana, Princess of Wales33
  118. Bashar al-Assad29
  119. Paul McCartney52
  120. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva49

The 120 best known of 853 are listed.