Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1954?

720 of the people we track were surely alive in 1954. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1954: Angela Merkel, François Hollande, Hugo Chávez, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Rafael Orozco Maestre, Shinzō Abe, Jackie Chan and Alexander Lukashenka.

Died in 1954: Frida Kahlo, Alan Turing, Henri Matisse, Enrico Fermi and Jacinto Benavente.

  1. Donald Trump8
  2. Albert Einstein75
  3. Vladimir Putin2
  4. Ronald Reagan43
  5. Nelson Mandela36
  6. George W. Bush8
  7. Joe Biden12
  8. Pablo Picasso73
  9. Winston Churchill80
  10. Charlie Chaplin65
  11. Elizabeth II28
  12. John F. Kennedy37
  13. Martin Luther King Jr.25
  14. Salvador Dalí50
  15. Marilyn Monroe28
  16. Pope Francis18
  17. Mao Zedong61
  18. Che Guevara26
  19. Bill Clinton8
  20. Charles de Gaulle64
  21. Angela Merkelborn
  22. Neil Armstrong24
  23. François Hollandeborn
  24. Walt Disney53
  25. Elvis Presley19
  26. Ernest Hemingway55
  27. Margaret Thatcher29
  28. John Paul II34
  29. Gabriel García Márquez27
  30. Fidel Castro28
  31. J. R. R. Tolkien62
  32. Albert Camus41
  33. Yuri Gagarin20
  34. Marlene Dietrich53
  35. Mikhail Gorbachev23
  36. Jean-Paul Sartre49
  37. Stephen Hawking12
  38. Le Corbusier67
  39. Frida Kahlo47 †
  40. Mother Teresa44
  41. Jimmy Carter30
  42. Benedict XVI27
  43. Harry S. Truman70
  44. Agatha Christie64
  45. Hillary Clinton7
  46. George H. W. Bush30
  47. Jorge Luis Borges55
  48. Jawaharlal Nehru65
  49. Dwight D. Eisenhower64
  50. Alan Turing41 †
  51. Richard Nixon41
  52. Xi Jinping1
  53. Alfred Hitchcock55
  54. Noam Chomsky26
  55. Simone de Beauvoir46
  56. Hugo Chávezborn
  57. Niels Bohr69
  58. Bertrand Russell82
  59. Muammar Gaddafi12
  60. John Lennon14
  61. Bob Dylan13
  62. Recep Tayyip Erdoğanborn
  63. Pelé14
  64. Muhammad Ali12
  65. Henri Matisse84 †
  66. Frank Lloyd Wright87
  67. Andy Warhol26
  68. Louis Armstrong53
  69. Kofi Annan16
  70. Akira Kurosawa44
  71. Lech Wałęsa11
  72. Freddie Mercury8
  73. Charles III6
  74. Lyndon B. Johnson46
  75. Gerald Ford41
  76. Indira Gandhi37
  77. Narendra Modi4
  78. Huang Xianfan55
  79. Enrico Fermi53 †
  80. Naguib Mahfouz43
  81. Aung San Suu Kyi9
  82. Steven Spielberg8
  83. Nikita Khrushchev60
  84. Saddam Hussein17
  85. Benjamin Netanyahu5
  86. Helen Keller74
  87. Tenzin Gyatso19
  88. Pablo Neruda50
  89. Rafael Orozco Maestreborn
  90. Igor Stravinsky72
  91. Thomas Mann79
  92. Bruce Lee14
  93. Erwin Schrödinger67
  94. Silvio Berlusconi18
  95. Bob Marley9
  96. Shinzō Abeborn
  97. Herbert Hoover80
  98. Hermann Hesse77
  99. Isaac Asimov34–35
  100. Ingmar Bergman36
  101. Federico Fellini34
  102. Mahathir Mohamad29
  103. Boris Yeltsin23
  104. Ali Khamenei15
  105. Robin Williams3
  106. Jackie Chanborn
  107. Kim Il-sung42
  108. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn36
  109. Jacques Chirac22
  110. T. S. Eliot66
  111. Stanley Kubrick26
  112. Kwame Nkrumah45
  113. Marlon Brando30
  114. Alexander Lukashenkaborn
  115. Hirohito53
  116. Richard Feynman36
  117. Woody Allen19
  118. Tony Blair1
  119. Bertolt Brecht56
  120. Yasser Arafat25

The 120 best known of 720 are listed.