Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1959?

758 of the people we track were surely alive in 1959. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1959: Evo Morales, Mike Pence, Stephen Harper, Jens Stoltenberg, Rigoberta Menchú, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Christian Wulff and Kevin Spacey.

Died in 1959: Frank Lloyd Wright, George Marshall and Billie Holiday.

  1. Donald Trump13
  2. Michael Jackson1
  3. Vladimir Putin7
  4. Ronald Reagan48
  5. Nelson Mandela41
  6. George W. Bush13
  7. Joe Biden17
  8. Pablo Picasso78
  9. Winston Churchill85
  10. Charlie Chaplin70
  11. Elizabeth II33
  12. John F. Kennedy42
  13. Martin Luther King Jr.30
  14. Salvador Dalí55
  15. Bill Gates4
  16. Marilyn Monroe33
  17. Pope Francis23
  18. Mao Zedong66
  19. Steve Jobs4
  20. Che Guevara31
  21. Bill Clinton13
  22. Charles de Gaulle69
  23. Angela Merkel5
  24. Neil Armstrong29
  25. François Hollande5
  26. Walt Disney58
  27. Elvis Presley24
  28. Ernest Hemingway60
  29. Margaret Thatcher34
  30. John Paul II39
  31. Gabriel García Márquez32
  32. Fidel Castro33
  33. J. R. R. Tolkien67
  34. Albert Camus46
  35. Yuri Gagarin25
  36. Marlene Dietrich58
  37. Mikhail Gorbachev28
  38. Jean-Paul Sartre54
  39. Stephen Hawking17
  40. Le Corbusier72
  41. Mother Teresa49
  42. Jimmy Carter35
  43. Benedict XVI32
  44. Harry S. Truman75
  45. Agatha Christie69
  46. Hillary Clinton12
  47. George H. W. Bush35
  48. Jorge Luis Borges60
  49. Nicolas Sarkozy4
  50. Madonna1
  51. Jawaharlal Nehru70
  52. Dwight D. Eisenhower69
  53. Richard Nixon46
  54. Xi Jinping6
  55. Alfred Hitchcock60
  56. Noam Chomsky31
  57. Simone de Beauvoir51
  58. Hugo Chávez5
  59. Niels Bohr74
  60. Bertrand Russell87
  61. Muammar Gaddafi17
  62. John Lennon19
  63. Bob Dylan18
  64. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan5
  65. Pelé19
  66. Muhammad Ali17
  67. Frank Lloyd Wright91 †
  68. Andy Warhol31
  69. Louis Armstrong58
  70. Kofi Annan21
  71. Osama bin Laden2
  72. Akira Kurosawa49
  73. Lech Wałęsa16
  74. Freddie Mercury13
  75. Charles III11
  76. Lyndon B. Johnson51
  77. Gerald Ford46
  78. Leo XIV4
  79. Indira Gandhi42
  80. Narendra Modi9
  81. Huang Xianfan60
  82. Naguib Mahfouz48
  83. Aung San Suu Kyi14
  84. Steven Spielberg13
  85. Nikita Khrushchev65
  86. Saddam Hussein22
  87. Benjamin Netanyahu10
  88. Helen Keller79
  89. Tenzin Gyatso24
  90. Pablo Neruda55
  91. Rafael Orozco Maestre5
  92. Igor Stravinsky77
  93. Bruce Lee19
  94. Erwin Schrödinger72
  95. Silvio Berlusconi23
  96. Bob Marley14
  97. Shinzō Abe5
  98. Herbert Hoover85
  99. Hermann Hesse82
  100. Isaac Asimov39–40
  101. Tim Berners-Lee4
  102. Ingmar Bergman41
  103. Federico Fellini39
  104. Mahathir Mohamad34
  105. Boris Yeltsin28
  106. Ali Khamenei20
  107. Robin Williams8
  108. Jackie Chan5
  109. Kim Il-sung47
  110. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn41
  111. Jacques Chirac27
  112. Guillermo Lasso4
  113. T. S. Eliot71
  114. Stanley Kubrick31
  115. Kwame Nkrumah50
  116. Marlon Brando35
  117. Alexander Lukashenka5
  118. Hirohito58
  119. Richard Feynman41
  120. Woody Allen24

The 120 best known of 758 are listed.