Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1963?

787 of the people we track were surely alive in 1963. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1963: Rafael Correa, Johnny Depp, Brad Pitt, Michael Jordan, Whitney Houston, Quentin Tarantino, Jet Li and Garry Kasparov.

Died in 1963: John F. Kennedy, Édith Piaf, Aldous Huxley, John XXIII, C. S. Lewis, Robert Frost, Jean Cocteau and Sylvia Plath.

  1. Barack Obama2
  2. Donald Trump17
  3. Michael Jackson5
  4. Vladimir Putin11
  5. Ronald Reagan52
  6. Nelson Mandela45
  7. George W. Bush17
  8. Joe Biden21
  9. Pablo Picasso82
  10. Winston Churchill89
  11. Charlie Chaplin74
  12. Elizabeth II37
  13. John F. Kennedy46 †
  14. Martin Luther King Jr.34
  15. Salvador Dalí59
  16. Bill Gates8
  17. Pope Francis27
  18. Mao Zedong70
  19. Steve Jobs8
  20. Che Guevara35
  21. Bill Clinton17
  22. Charles de Gaulle73
  23. Angela Merkel9
  24. Neil Armstrong33
  25. François Hollande9
  26. Walt Disney62
  27. Elvis Presley28
  28. Margaret Thatcher38
  29. John Paul II43
  30. Gabriel García Márquez36
  31. Fidel Castro37
  32. J. R. R. Tolkien71
  33. Yuri Gagarin29
  34. Marlene Dietrich62
  35. Mikhail Gorbachev32
  36. Jean-Paul Sartre58
  37. Stephen Hawking21
  38. Le Corbusier76
  39. Mother Teresa53
  40. Jimmy Carter39
  41. Benedict XVI36
  42. Harry S. Truman79
  43. Agatha Christie73
  44. Hillary Clinton16
  45. George H. W. Bush39
  46. Jorge Luis Borges64
  47. Nicolas Sarkozy8
  48. Madonna5
  49. Jawaharlal Nehru74
  50. Dwight D. Eisenhower73
  51. Richard Nixon50
  52. Xi Jinping10
  53. Naruhito3
  54. Alfred Hitchcock64
  55. Noam Chomsky35
  56. Simone de Beauvoir55
  57. Hugo Chávez9
  58. Bertrand Russell91
  59. Muammar Gaddafi21
  60. John Lennon23
  61. Bob Dylan22
  62. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan9
  63. Pelé23
  64. Muhammad Ali21
  65. Andy Warhol35
  66. Louis Armstrong62
  67. Kofi Annan25
  68. Osama bin Laden6
  69. Akira Kurosawa53
  70. Lech Wałęsa20
  71. Freddie Mercury17
  72. Charles III15
  73. Lyndon B. Johnson55
  74. Gerald Ford50
  75. Diego Maradona3
  76. Leo XIV8
  77. Indira Gandhi46
  78. Narendra Modi13
  79. Rafael Correaborn
  80. Huang Xianfan64
  81. Naguib Mahfouz52
  82. Aung San Suu Kyi18
  83. Steven Spielberg17
  84. Nikita Khrushchev69
  85. Saddam Hussein26
  86. Benjamin Netanyahu14
  87. Helen Keller83
  88. Tenzin Gyatso28
  89. Pablo Neruda59
  90. Rafael Orozco Maestre9
  91. Igor Stravinsky81
  92. Bruce Lee23
  93. Silvio Berlusconi27
  94. Bob Marley18
  95. Shinzō Abe9
  96. Herbert Hoover89
  97. Isaac Asimov43–44
  98. Tim Berners-Lee8
  99. Ingmar Bergman45
  100. Federico Fellini43
  101. Mahathir Mohamad38
  102. Boris Yeltsin32
  103. Ali Khamenei24
  104. Robin Williams12
  105. Jackie Chan9
  106. Kim Il-sung51
  107. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn45
  108. Jacques Chirac31
  109. Guillermo Lasso8
  110. T. S. Eliot75
  111. Stanley Kubrick35
  112. Kwame Nkrumah54
  113. Marlon Brando39
  114. Alexander Lukashenka9
  115. Hirohito62
  116. Richard Feynman45
  117. Woody Allen28
  118. Tony Blair10
  119. Yasser Arafat34
  120. Ho Chi Minh73

The 120 best known of 787 are listed.