Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1952?

705 of the people we track were surely alive in 1952. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1952: Vladimir Putin, Orhan Pamuk, Douglas Adams, Steven Seagal, Vajiralongkorn, Park Geun-hye, Imran Khan and John Goodman.

Died in 1952: Knut Hamsun, George VI, John Dewey, Maria Elena and Eva Perón.

  1. Donald Trump6
  2. Albert Einstein73
  3. Vladimir Putinborn
  4. Ronald Reagan41
  5. Nelson Mandela34
  6. George W. Bush6
  7. Joseph Stalin74
  8. Joe Biden10
  9. Pablo Picasso71
  10. Winston Churchill78
  11. Charlie Chaplin63
  12. Elizabeth II26
  13. John F. Kennedy35
  14. Martin Luther King Jr.23
  15. Salvador Dalí48
  16. Marilyn Monroe26
  17. Pope Francis16
  18. Mao Zedong59
  19. Che Guevara24
  20. Bill Clinton6
  21. Charles de Gaulle62
  22. Neil Armstrong22
  23. Walt Disney51
  24. Elvis Presley17
  25. Ernest Hemingway53
  26. Margaret Thatcher27
  27. John Paul II32
  28. Gabriel García Márquez25
  29. Fidel Castro26
  30. J. R. R. Tolkien60
  31. Albert Camus39
  32. Yuri Gagarin18
  33. Marlene Dietrich51
  34. Mikhail Gorbachev21
  35. Jean-Paul Sartre47
  36. Stephen Hawking10
  37. Le Corbusier65
  38. Frida Kahlo45
  39. Mother Teresa42
  40. Jimmy Carter28
  41. Benedict XVI25
  42. Harry S. Truman68
  43. Agatha Christie62
  44. Hillary Clinton5
  45. George H. W. Bush28
  46. Jorge Luis Borges53
  47. Jawaharlal Nehru63
  48. Dwight D. Eisenhower62
  49. Alan Turing40
  50. Richard Nixon39
  51. Alfred Hitchcock53
  52. Noam Chomsky24
  53. Simone de Beauvoir44
  54. Niels Bohr67
  55. Bertrand Russell80
  56. Muammar Gaddafi10
  57. John Lennon12
  58. Bob Dylan11
  59. Pelé12
  60. Muhammad Ali10
  61. Henri Matisse83
  62. Frank Lloyd Wright85
  63. Andy Warhol24
  64. Louis Armstrong51
  65. Kofi Annan14
  66. Akira Kurosawa42
  67. Lech Wałęsa9
  68. Freddie Mercury6
  69. Charles III4
  70. Lyndon B. Johnson44
  71. Gerald Ford39
  72. Indira Gandhi35
  73. Narendra Modi2
  74. Huang Xianfan53
  75. Enrico Fermi51
  76. Naguib Mahfouz41
  77. Aung San Suu Kyi7
  78. Steven Spielberg6
  79. Nikita Khrushchev58
  80. Saddam Hussein15
  81. Benjamin Netanyahu3
  82. Helen Keller72
  83. Tenzin Gyatso17
  84. Pablo Neruda48
  85. Igor Stravinsky70
  86. Thomas Mann77
  87. Bruce Lee12
  88. Erwin Schrödinger65
  89. Silvio Berlusconi16
  90. Bob Marley7
  91. Herbert Hoover78
  92. Hermann Hesse75
  93. Isaac Asimov32–33
  94. Ingmar Bergman34
  95. Federico Fellini32
  96. Mahathir Mohamad27
  97. Boris Yeltsin21
  98. Ali Khamenei13
  99. Robin Williams1
  100. Kim Il-sung40
  101. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn34
  102. Jacques Chirac20
  103. T. S. Eliot64
  104. Stanley Kubrick24
  105. Kwame Nkrumah43
  106. Marlon Brando28
  107. Hirohito51
  108. Richard Feynman34
  109. Woody Allen17
  110. Bertolt Brecht54
  111. Yasser Arafat23
  112. Ho Chi Minh62
  113. Judy Garland30
  114. Ban Ki-moon8
  115. Arnold Schwarzenegger5
  116. Carl Jung77
  117. Brigitte Bardot18
  118. Vladimir Nabokov53
  119. Hebe Camargo23
  120. Umberto Eco20

The 120 best known of 705 are listed.