Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1945?

645 of the people we track were surely alive in 1945. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1945: Aung San Suu Kyi, Bob Marley, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Franz Beckenbauer, Rodrigo Duterte, Helen Mirren, Patrick Modiano and Eric Clapton.

Died in 1945: Adolf Hitler, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Benito Mussolini, Anne Frank, Joseph Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler, David Lloyd George and Béla Bartók.

  1. Adolf Hitler56 †
  2. Albert Einstein66
  3. Ronald Reagan34
  4. Nelson Mandela27
  5. Mahatma Gandhi76
  6. Joseph Stalin67
  7. Joe Biden3
  8. Pablo Picasso64
  9. Winston Churchill71
  10. Charlie Chaplin56
  11. Elizabeth II19
  12. John F. Kennedy28
  13. Martin Luther King Jr.16
  14. Salvador Dalí41
  15. Franklin Delano Roosevelt63 †
  16. Marilyn Monroe19
  17. Pope Francis9
  18. Mao Zedong52
  19. Che Guevara17
  20. Charles de Gaulle55
  21. Neil Armstrong15
  22. Walt Disney44
  23. Elvis Presley10
  24. George Orwell42
  25. Ernest Hemingway46
  26. Margaret Thatcher20
  27. John Paul II25
  28. Gabriel García Márquez18
  29. Fidel Castro19
  30. J. R. R. Tolkien53
  31. Albert Camus32
  32. Yuri Gagarin11
  33. Henry Ford82
  34. Marlene Dietrich44
  35. Mikhail Gorbachev14
  36. Benito Mussolini61 †
  37. Jean-Paul Sartre40
  38. Stephen Hawking3
  39. Le Corbusier58
  40. Frida Kahlo38
  41. Mother Teresa35
  42. Jimmy Carter21
  43. Benedict XVI18
  44. Harry S. Truman61
  45. Agatha Christie55
  46. George H. W. Bush21
  47. Jorge Luis Borges46
  48. Jawaharlal Nehru56
  49. Dwight D. Eisenhower55
  50. Alan Turing33
  51. Richard Nixon32
  52. Alfred Hitchcock46
  53. Noam Chomsky17
  54. Simone de Beauvoir37
  55. George Bernard Shaw89
  56. John Maynard Keynes62
  57. Niels Bohr60
  58. Bertrand Russell73
  59. Muammar Gaddafi3
  60. John Lennon5
  61. Bob Dylan4
  62. Max Planck87
  63. Pelé5
  64. Muhammad Ali3
  65. Henri Matisse76
  66. Frank Lloyd Wright78
  67. Andy Warhol17
  68. Louis Armstrong44
  69. Kofi Annan7
  70. Akira Kurosawa35
  71. Lech Wałęsa2
  72. Lyndon B. Johnson37
  73. Gerald Ford32
  74. Ludwig Wittgenstein56
  75. Indira Gandhi28
  76. Huang Xianfan46
  77. Enrico Fermi44
  78. Naguib Mahfouz34
  79. Aung San Suu Kyiborn
  80. Nikita Khrushchev51
  81. Anne Frank15 †
  82. Saddam Hussein8
  83. H. G. Wells79
  84. Helen Keller65
  85. Tenzin Gyatso10
  86. Pablo Neruda41
  87. Igor Stravinsky63
  88. Thomas Mann70
  89. Bruce Lee5
  90. Erwin Schrödinger58
  91. Silvio Berlusconi9
  92. Bob Marleyborn
  93. Herbert Hoover71
  94. Hermann Hesse68
  95. Isaac Asimov25–26
  96. Ingmar Bergman27
  97. Federico Fellini25
  98. Mahathir Mohamad20
  99. Boris Yeltsin14
  100. Ali Khamenei6
  101. Kim Il-sung33
  102. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn27
  103. Jacques Chirac13
  104. T. S. Eliot57
  105. Stanley Kubrick17
  106. Kwame Nkrumah36
  107. Marlon Brando21
  108. Hirohito44
  109. Richard Feynman27
  110. Woody Allen10
  111. Bertolt Brecht47
  112. Yasser Arafat16
  113. Ho Chi Minh55
  114. Judy Garland23
  115. Ban Ki-moon1
  116. Carl Jung70
  117. Brigitte Bardot11
  118. Vladimir Nabokov46
  119. Hebe Camargo16
  120. Umberto Eco13

The 120 best known of 645 are listed.