Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1951?

698 of the people we track were surely alive in 1951. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1951: Robin Williams, Gordon Brown, Michelle Bachelet, Mohamed Morsi, Juan Manuel Santos, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Sting and Phil Collins.

Died in 1951: Ludwig Wittgenstein, André Gide, Sinclair Lewis and Philippe Pétain.

  1. Donald Trump5
  2. Albert Einstein72
  3. Ronald Reagan40
  4. Nelson Mandela33
  5. George W. Bush5
  6. Joseph Stalin73
  7. Joe Biden9
  8. Pablo Picasso70
  9. Winston Churchill77
  10. Charlie Chaplin62
  11. Elizabeth II25
  12. John F. Kennedy34
  13. Martin Luther King Jr.22
  14. Salvador Dalí47
  15. Marilyn Monroe25
  16. Pope Francis15
  17. Mao Zedong58
  18. Che Guevara23
  19. Bill Clinton5
  20. Charles de Gaulle61
  21. Neil Armstrong21
  22. Walt Disney50
  23. Elvis Presley16
  24. Ernest Hemingway52
  25. Margaret Thatcher26
  26. John Paul II31
  27. Gabriel García Márquez24
  28. Fidel Castro25
  29. J. R. R. Tolkien59
  30. Albert Camus38
  31. Yuri Gagarin17
  32. Marlene Dietrich50
  33. Mikhail Gorbachev20
  34. Jean-Paul Sartre46
  35. Stephen Hawking9
  36. Le Corbusier64
  37. Frida Kahlo44
  38. Mother Teresa41
  39. Jimmy Carter27
  40. Benedict XVI24
  41. Harry S. Truman67
  42. Agatha Christie61
  43. Hillary Clinton4
  44. George H. W. Bush27
  45. Jorge Luis Borges52
  46. Jawaharlal Nehru62
  47. Dwight D. Eisenhower61
  48. Alan Turing39
  49. Richard Nixon38
  50. Alfred Hitchcock52
  51. Noam Chomsky23
  52. Simone de Beauvoir43
  53. Niels Bohr66
  54. Bertrand Russell79
  55. Muammar Gaddafi9
  56. John Lennon11
  57. Bob Dylan10
  58. Pelé11
  59. Muhammad Ali9
  60. Henri Matisse82
  61. Frank Lloyd Wright84
  62. Andy Warhol23
  63. Louis Armstrong50
  64. Kofi Annan13
  65. Akira Kurosawa41
  66. Lech Wałęsa8
  67. Freddie Mercury5
  68. Charles III3
  69. Lyndon B. Johnson43
  70. Gerald Ford38
  71. Ludwig Wittgenstein62 †
  72. Indira Gandhi34
  73. Narendra Modi1
  74. Huang Xianfan52
  75. Enrico Fermi50
  76. Naguib Mahfouz40
  77. Aung San Suu Kyi6
  78. Steven Spielberg5
  79. Nikita Khrushchev57
  80. Saddam Hussein14
  81. Benjamin Netanyahu2
  82. Helen Keller71
  83. Tenzin Gyatso16
  84. Pablo Neruda47
  85. Igor Stravinsky69
  86. Thomas Mann76
  87. Bruce Lee11
  88. Erwin Schrödinger64
  89. Silvio Berlusconi15
  90. Bob Marley6
  91. Herbert Hoover77
  92. Hermann Hesse74
  93. Isaac Asimov31–32
  94. Ingmar Bergman33
  95. Federico Fellini31
  96. Mahathir Mohamad26
  97. Boris Yeltsin20
  98. Ali Khamenei12
  99. Robin Williamsborn
  100. Kim Il-sung39
  101. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn33
  102. Jacques Chirac19
  103. T. S. Eliot63
  104. Stanley Kubrick23
  105. Kwame Nkrumah42
  106. Marlon Brando27
  107. Hirohito50
  108. Richard Feynman33
  109. Woody Allen16
  110. Bertolt Brecht53
  111. Yasser Arafat22
  112. Ho Chi Minh61
  113. Judy Garland29
  114. Ban Ki-moon7
  115. Arnold Schwarzenegger4
  116. Carl Jung76
  117. Brigitte Bardot17
  118. Vladimir Nabokov52
  119. Hebe Camargo22
  120. Umberto Eco19

The 120 best known of 698 are listed.