Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1998?

831 of the people we track were surely alive in 1998. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1998: Kylian Mbappé.

Died in 1998: Akira Kurosawa, Frank Sinatra, Pol Pot, Octavio Paz and Halldór Laxness.

  1. Barack Obama37
  2. Donald Trump52
  3. Michael Jackson40
  4. Vladimir Putin46
  5. Ronald Reagan87
  6. Nelson Mandela80
  7. George W. Bush52
  8. Joe Biden56
  9. Elizabeth II72
  10. Bill Gates43
  11. Jimmy Wales32
  12. Pope Francis62
  13. Shakira21
  14. Steve Jobs43
  15. Lionel Messi11
  16. Corbin Bleu9
  17. Bill Clinton52
  18. Basshunter14
  19. Angela Merkel44
  20. Neil Armstrong68
  21. François Hollande44
  22. Cristiano Ronaldo13
  23. Volodymyr Zelenskyy20
  24. Margaret Thatcher73
  25. John Paul II78
  26. Gabriel García Márquez71
  27. Fidel Castro72
  28. Mikhail Gorbachev67
  29. Stephen Hawking56
  30. Elon Musk27
  31. Jimmy Carter74
  32. Benedict XVI71
  33. Emmanuel Macron21
  34. Hillary Clinton51
  35. Lady Gaga12
  36. George H. W. Bush74
  37. Nicolas Sarkozy43
  38. Madonna40
  39. Kamala Harris34
  40. Xi Jinping45
  41. Naruhito38
  42. Noam Chomsky70
  43. Hugo Chávez44
  44. Muammar Gaddafi56
  45. Sung Jae-gi31
  46. Bob Dylan57
  47. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan44
  48. Pelé58
  49. Muhammad Ali56
  50. J. K. Rowling33
  51. Justin Bieber4
  52. Kofi Annan60
  53. Taylor Swift9
  54. Osama bin Laden41
  55. Akira Kurosawa88 †
  56. Lech Wałęsa55
  57. Charles III50
  58. Kim Jong-un14
  59. Gerald Ford85
  60. Diego Maradona38
  61. Eminem26
  62. Beyoncé17
  63. Selena Gomez6
  64. Leo XIV43
  65. Narendra Modi48
  66. Rafael Correa35
  67. Naguib Mahfouz87
  68. Aung San Suu Kyi53
  69. Steven Spielberg52
  70. Michael Schumacher29
  71. Angelina Jolie23
  72. Saddam Hussein61
  73. Benjamin Netanyahu49
  74. Tenzin Gyatso63
  75. Dmitry Medvedev33
  76. Anna Netrebko27
  77. Mark Zuckerberg14
  78. Silvio Berlusconi62
  79. Shinzō Abe44
  80. Tim Berners-Lee43
  81. Ingmar Bergman80
  82. Mahathir Mohamad73
  83. Boris Yeltsin67
  84. Ali Khamenei59
  85. Robin Williams47
  86. Jackie Chan44
  87. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn80
  88. Jacques Chirac66
  89. Guillermo Lasso43
  90. Céline Dion30
  91. Stanley Kubrick70
  92. Roger Federer17
  93. Lana Del Rey13
  94. Marlon Brando74
  95. Alexander Lukashenka44
  96. Woody Allen63
  97. Tony Blair45
  98. Rihanna10
  99. Neymar6
  100. Malala Yousafzai1
  101. Scarlett Johansson14
  102. Yasser Arafat69
  103. Rafael Nadal12
  104. Ban Ki-moon54
  105. Arnold Schwarzenegger51
  106. David Cameron32
  107. Linus Torvalds29
  108. Brigitte Bardot64
  109. Novak Djokovic11
  110. Hebe Camargo69
  111. Umberto Eco66
  112. Boris Johnson34
  113. Benazir Bhutto45
  114. Jair Bolsonaro43
  115. Bashar al-Assad33
  116. Paul McCartney56
  117. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva53
  118. Anggun24
  119. Leonardo DiCaprio24
  120. Agnez Mo12

The 120 best known of 831 are listed.