Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1961?

778 of the people we track were surely alive in 1961. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1961: Barack Obama, Diana, Princess of Wales, Ilham Aliyev, George Clooney, Joko Widodo, Julia Gillard, Enya and Eddie Murphy.

Died in 1961: Ernest Hemingway, Erwin Schrödinger, Carl Jung, Dag Hammarskjöld, Patrice Lumumba, Gary Cooper and Louis-Ferdinand Céline.

  1. Barack Obamaborn
  2. Donald Trump15
  3. Michael Jackson3
  4. Vladimir Putin9
  5. Ronald Reagan50
  6. Nelson Mandela43
  7. George W. Bush15
  8. Joe Biden19
  9. Pablo Picasso80
  10. Winston Churchill87
  11. Charlie Chaplin72
  12. Elizabeth II35
  13. John F. Kennedy44
  14. Martin Luther King Jr.32
  15. Salvador Dalí57
  16. Bill Gates6
  17. Marilyn Monroe35
  18. Pope Francis25
  19. Mao Zedong68
  20. Steve Jobs6
  21. Che Guevara33
  22. Bill Clinton15
  23. Charles de Gaulle71
  24. Angela Merkel7
  25. Neil Armstrong31
  26. François Hollande7
  27. Walt Disney60
  28. Elvis Presley26
  29. Ernest Hemingway61 †
  30. Margaret Thatcher36
  31. John Paul II41
  32. Gabriel García Márquez34
  33. Fidel Castro35
  34. J. R. R. Tolkien69
  35. Yuri Gagarin27
  36. Marlene Dietrich60
  37. Mikhail Gorbachev30
  38. Jean-Paul Sartre56
  39. Stephen Hawking19
  40. Le Corbusier74
  41. Mother Teresa51
  42. Jimmy Carter37
  43. Benedict XVI34
  44. Harry S. Truman77
  45. Agatha Christie71
  46. Hillary Clinton14
  47. George H. W. Bush37
  48. Jorge Luis Borges62
  49. Nicolas Sarkozy6
  50. Madonna3
  51. Jawaharlal Nehru72
  52. Dwight D. Eisenhower71
  53. Richard Nixon48
  54. Xi Jinping8
  55. Naruhito1
  56. Alfred Hitchcock62
  57. Noam Chomsky33
  58. Simone de Beauvoir53
  59. Hugo Chávez7
  60. Niels Bohr76
  61. Bertrand Russell89
  62. Muammar Gaddafi19
  63. John Lennon21
  64. Bob Dylan20
  65. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan7
  66. Pelé21
  67. Muhammad Ali19
  68. Andy Warhol33
  69. Louis Armstrong60
  70. Kofi Annan23
  71. Osama bin Laden4
  72. Akira Kurosawa51
  73. Lech Wałęsa18
  74. Freddie Mercury15
  75. Charles III13
  76. Lyndon B. Johnson53
  77. Gerald Ford48
  78. Diego Maradona1
  79. Leo XIV6
  80. Indira Gandhi44
  81. Narendra Modi11
  82. Huang Xianfan62
  83. Naguib Mahfouz50
  84. Aung San Suu Kyi16
  85. Steven Spielberg15
  86. Nikita Khrushchev67
  87. Saddam Hussein24
  88. Benjamin Netanyahu12
  89. Helen Keller81
  90. Tenzin Gyatso26
  91. Pablo Neruda57
  92. Rafael Orozco Maestre7
  93. Igor Stravinsky79
  94. Bruce Lee21
  95. Erwin Schrödinger73 †
  96. Silvio Berlusconi25
  97. Bob Marley16
  98. Shinzō Abe7
  99. Herbert Hoover87
  100. Hermann Hesse84
  101. Isaac Asimov41–42
  102. Tim Berners-Lee6
  103. Ingmar Bergman43
  104. Federico Fellini41
  105. Mahathir Mohamad36
  106. Boris Yeltsin30
  107. Ali Khamenei22
  108. Robin Williams10
  109. Jackie Chan7
  110. Kim Il-sung49
  111. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn43
  112. Jacques Chirac29
  113. Guillermo Lasso6
  114. T. S. Eliot73
  115. Stanley Kubrick33
  116. Kwame Nkrumah52
  117. Marlon Brando37
  118. Alexander Lukashenka7
  119. Hirohito60
  120. Richard Feynman43

The 120 best known of 778 are listed.