Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1946?

657 of the people we track were surely alive in 1946. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1946: Donald Trump, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Freddie Mercury, Steven Spielberg, Charlotte Rampling, Elfriede Jelinek and Sylvester Stallone.

Died in 1946: John Maynard Keynes, H. G. Wells, Gerhart Hauptmann and Hermann Göring.

  1. Donald Trumpborn
  2. Albert Einstein67
  3. Ronald Reagan35
  4. Nelson Mandela28
  5. Mahatma Gandhi77
  6. George W. Bushborn
  7. Joseph Stalin68
  8. Joe Biden4
  9. Pablo Picasso65
  10. Winston Churchill72
  11. Charlie Chaplin57
  12. Elizabeth II20
  13. John F. Kennedy29
  14. Martin Luther King Jr.17
  15. Salvador Dalí42
  16. Marilyn Monroe20
  17. Pope Francis10
  18. Mao Zedong53
  19. Che Guevara18
  20. Bill Clintonborn
  21. Charles de Gaulle56
  22. Neil Armstrong16
  23. Walt Disney45
  24. Elvis Presley11
  25. George Orwell43
  26. Ernest Hemingway47
  27. Margaret Thatcher21
  28. John Paul II26
  29. Gabriel García Márquez19
  30. Fidel Castro20
  31. J. R. R. Tolkien54
  32. Albert Camus33
  33. Yuri Gagarin12
  34. Henry Ford83
  35. Marlene Dietrich45
  36. Mikhail Gorbachev15
  37. Jean-Paul Sartre41
  38. Stephen Hawking4
  39. Le Corbusier59
  40. Frida Kahlo39
  41. Mother Teresa36
  42. Jimmy Carter22
  43. Benedict XVI19
  44. Harry S. Truman62
  45. Agatha Christie56
  46. George H. W. Bush22
  47. Jorge Luis Borges47
  48. Jawaharlal Nehru57
  49. Dwight D. Eisenhower56
  50. Alan Turing34
  51. Richard Nixon33
  52. Alfred Hitchcock47
  53. Noam Chomsky18
  54. Simone de Beauvoir38
  55. George Bernard Shaw90
  56. John Maynard Keynes62 †
  57. Niels Bohr61
  58. Bertrand Russell74
  59. Muammar Gaddafi4
  60. John Lennon6
  61. Bob Dylan5
  62. Max Planck88
  63. Pelé6
  64. Muhammad Ali4
  65. Henri Matisse77
  66. Frank Lloyd Wright79
  67. Andy Warhol18
  68. Louis Armstrong45
  69. Kofi Annan8
  70. Akira Kurosawa36
  71. Lech Wałęsa3
  72. Freddie Mercuryborn
  73. Lyndon B. Johnson38
  74. Gerald Ford33
  75. Ludwig Wittgenstein57
  76. Indira Gandhi29
  77. Huang Xianfan47
  78. Enrico Fermi45
  79. Naguib Mahfouz35
  80. Aung San Suu Kyi1
  81. Steven Spielbergborn
  82. Nikita Khrushchev52
  83. Saddam Hussein9
  84. H. G. Wells79 †
  85. Helen Keller66
  86. Tenzin Gyatso11
  87. Pablo Neruda42
  88. Igor Stravinsky64
  89. Thomas Mann71
  90. Bruce Lee6
  91. Erwin Schrödinger59
  92. Silvio Berlusconi10
  93. Bob Marley1
  94. Herbert Hoover72
  95. Hermann Hesse69
  96. Isaac Asimov26–27
  97. Ingmar Bergman28
  98. Federico Fellini26
  99. Mahathir Mohamad21
  100. Boris Yeltsin15
  101. Ali Khamenei7
  102. Kim Il-sung34
  103. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn28
  104. Jacques Chirac14
  105. T. S. Eliot58
  106. Stanley Kubrick18
  107. Kwame Nkrumah37
  108. Marlon Brando22
  109. Hirohito45
  110. Richard Feynman28
  111. Woody Allen11
  112. Bertolt Brecht48
  113. Yasser Arafat17
  114. Ho Chi Minh56
  115. Judy Garland24
  116. Ban Ki-moon2
  117. Carl Jung71
  118. Brigitte Bardot12
  119. Vladimir Nabokov47
  120. Hebe Camargo17

The 120 best known of 657 are listed.