Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1947?

669 of the people we track were surely alive in 1947. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1947: Hillary Clinton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Stephen King, Dilma Rousseff, David Bowie, Paulo Coelho, Salman Rushdie and Johan Cruyff.

Died in 1947: Henry Ford, Max Planck, Al Capone, Alfred North Whitehead and Philipp Lenard.

  1. Donald Trump1
  2. Albert Einstein68
  3. Ronald Reagan36
  4. Nelson Mandela29
  5. Mahatma Gandhi78
  6. George W. Bush1
  7. Joseph Stalin69
  8. Joe Biden5
  9. Pablo Picasso66
  10. Winston Churchill73
  11. Charlie Chaplin58
  12. Elizabeth II21
  13. John F. Kennedy30
  14. Martin Luther King Jr.18
  15. Salvador Dalí43
  16. Marilyn Monroe21
  17. Pope Francis11
  18. Mao Zedong54
  19. Che Guevara19
  20. Bill Clinton1
  21. Charles de Gaulle57
  22. Neil Armstrong17
  23. Walt Disney46
  24. Elvis Presley12
  25. George Orwell44
  26. Ernest Hemingway48
  27. Margaret Thatcher22
  28. John Paul II27
  29. Gabriel García Márquez20
  30. Fidel Castro21
  31. J. R. R. Tolkien55
  32. Albert Camus34
  33. Yuri Gagarin13
  34. Henry Ford83 †
  35. Marlene Dietrich46
  36. Mikhail Gorbachev16
  37. Jean-Paul Sartre42
  38. Stephen Hawking5
  39. Le Corbusier60
  40. Frida Kahlo40
  41. Mother Teresa37
  42. Jimmy Carter23
  43. Benedict XVI20
  44. Harry S. Truman63
  45. Agatha Christie57
  46. Hillary Clintonborn
  47. George H. W. Bush23
  48. Jorge Luis Borges48
  49. Jawaharlal Nehru58
  50. Dwight D. Eisenhower57
  51. Alan Turing35
  52. Richard Nixon34
  53. Alfred Hitchcock48
  54. Noam Chomsky19
  55. Simone de Beauvoir39
  56. George Bernard Shaw91
  57. Niels Bohr62
  58. Bertrand Russell75
  59. Muammar Gaddafi5
  60. John Lennon7
  61. Bob Dylan6
  62. Max Planck89 †
  63. Pelé7
  64. Muhammad Ali5
  65. Henri Matisse78
  66. Frank Lloyd Wright80
  67. Andy Warhol19
  68. Louis Armstrong46
  69. Kofi Annan9
  70. Akira Kurosawa37
  71. Lech Wałęsa4
  72. Freddie Mercury1
  73. Lyndon B. Johnson39
  74. Gerald Ford34
  75. Ludwig Wittgenstein58
  76. Indira Gandhi30
  77. Huang Xianfan48
  78. Enrico Fermi46
  79. Naguib Mahfouz36
  80. Aung San Suu Kyi2
  81. Steven Spielberg1
  82. Nikita Khrushchev53
  83. Saddam Hussein10
  84. Helen Keller67
  85. Tenzin Gyatso12
  86. Pablo Neruda43
  87. Igor Stravinsky65
  88. Thomas Mann72
  89. Bruce Lee7
  90. Erwin Schrödinger60
  91. Silvio Berlusconi11
  92. Bob Marley2
  93. Herbert Hoover73
  94. Hermann Hesse70
  95. Isaac Asimov27–28
  96. Ingmar Bergman29
  97. Federico Fellini27
  98. Mahathir Mohamad22
  99. Boris Yeltsin16
  100. Ali Khamenei8
  101. Kim Il-sung35
  102. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn29
  103. Jacques Chirac15
  104. T. S. Eliot59
  105. Stanley Kubrick19
  106. Kwame Nkrumah38
  107. Marlon Brando23
  108. Hirohito46
  109. Richard Feynman29
  110. Woody Allen12
  111. Bertolt Brecht49
  112. Yasser Arafat18
  113. Ho Chi Minh57
  114. Judy Garland25
  115. Ban Ki-moon3
  116. Arnold Schwarzeneggerborn
  117. Carl Jung72
  118. Brigitte Bardot13
  119. Vladimir Nabokov48
  120. Hebe Camargo18

The 120 best known of 669 are listed.