Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1953?

709 of the people we track were surely alive in 1953. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1953: Xi Jinping, Tony Blair, Benazir Bhutto, Richard Stallman, Herta Müller, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Pierce Brosnan and Moon Jae-in.

Died in 1953: Joseph Stalin, Ivan Bunin, Eugene O'Neill, Edwin Hubble, Robert Andrews Millikan, Ibn Saud and Sergei Prokofiev.

  1. Donald Trump7
  2. Albert Einstein74
  3. Vladimir Putin1
  4. Ronald Reagan42
  5. Nelson Mandela35
  6. George W. Bush7
  7. Joseph Stalin74 †
  8. Joe Biden11
  9. Pablo Picasso72
  10. Winston Churchill79
  11. Charlie Chaplin64
  12. Elizabeth II27
  13. John F. Kennedy36
  14. Martin Luther King Jr.24
  15. Salvador Dalí49
  16. Marilyn Monroe27
  17. Pope Francis17
  18. Mao Zedong60
  19. Che Guevara25
  20. Bill Clinton7
  21. Charles de Gaulle63
  22. Neil Armstrong23
  23. Walt Disney52
  24. Elvis Presley18
  25. Ernest Hemingway54
  26. Margaret Thatcher28
  27. John Paul II33
  28. Gabriel García Márquez26
  29. Fidel Castro27
  30. J. R. R. Tolkien61
  31. Albert Camus40
  32. Yuri Gagarin19
  33. Marlene Dietrich52
  34. Mikhail Gorbachev22
  35. Jean-Paul Sartre48
  36. Stephen Hawking11
  37. Le Corbusier66
  38. Frida Kahlo46
  39. Mother Teresa43
  40. Jimmy Carter29
  41. Benedict XVI26
  42. Harry S. Truman69
  43. Agatha Christie63
  44. Hillary Clinton6
  45. George H. W. Bush29
  46. Jorge Luis Borges54
  47. Jawaharlal Nehru64
  48. Dwight D. Eisenhower63
  49. Alan Turing41
  50. Richard Nixon40
  51. Xi Jinpingborn
  52. Alfred Hitchcock54
  53. Noam Chomsky25
  54. Simone de Beauvoir45
  55. Niels Bohr68
  56. Bertrand Russell81
  57. Muammar Gaddafi11
  58. John Lennon13
  59. Bob Dylan12
  60. Pelé13
  61. Muhammad Ali11
  62. Henri Matisse84
  63. Frank Lloyd Wright86
  64. Andy Warhol25
  65. Louis Armstrong52
  66. Kofi Annan15
  67. Akira Kurosawa43
  68. Lech Wałęsa10
  69. Freddie Mercury7
  70. Charles III5
  71. Lyndon B. Johnson45
  72. Gerald Ford40
  73. Indira Gandhi36
  74. Narendra Modi3
  75. Huang Xianfan54
  76. Enrico Fermi52
  77. Naguib Mahfouz42
  78. Aung San Suu Kyi8
  79. Steven Spielberg7
  80. Nikita Khrushchev59
  81. Saddam Hussein16
  82. Benjamin Netanyahu4
  83. Helen Keller73
  84. Tenzin Gyatso18
  85. Pablo Neruda49
  86. Igor Stravinsky71
  87. Thomas Mann78
  88. Bruce Lee13
  89. Erwin Schrödinger66
  90. Silvio Berlusconi17
  91. Bob Marley8
  92. Herbert Hoover79
  93. Hermann Hesse76
  94. Isaac Asimov33–34
  95. Ingmar Bergman35
  96. Federico Fellini33
  97. Mahathir Mohamad28
  98. Boris Yeltsin22
  99. Ali Khamenei14
  100. Robin Williams2
  101. Kim Il-sung41
  102. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn35
  103. Jacques Chirac21
  104. T. S. Eliot65
  105. Stanley Kubrick25
  106. Kwame Nkrumah44
  107. Marlon Brando29
  108. Hirohito52
  109. Richard Feynman35
  110. Woody Allen18
  111. Tony Blairborn
  112. Bertolt Brecht55
  113. Yasser Arafat24
  114. Ho Chi Minh63
  115. Judy Garland31
  116. Ban Ki-moon9
  117. Arnold Schwarzenegger6
  118. Carl Jung78
  119. Brigitte Bardot19
  120. Vladimir Nabokov54

The 120 best known of 709 are listed.