Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1965?

798 of the people we track were surely alive in 1965. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1965: J. K. Rowling, Dmitry Medvedev, Bashar al-Assad, Shah Rukh Khan, Petro Poroshenko, Robert Downey Jr., Björk and Salman Khan.

Died in 1965: Winston Churchill, Le Corbusier, T. S. Eliot, Malcolm X, Albert Schweitzer and William Somerset Maugham.

  1. Barack Obama4
  2. Donald Trump19
  3. Michael Jackson7
  4. Vladimir Putin13
  5. Ronald Reagan54
  6. Nelson Mandela47
  7. George W. Bush19
  8. Joe Biden23
  9. Pablo Picasso84
  10. Winston Churchill90 †
  11. Charlie Chaplin76
  12. Elizabeth II39
  13. Martin Luther King Jr.36
  14. Salvador Dalí61
  15. Bill Gates10
  16. Pope Francis29
  17. Mao Zedong72
  18. Steve Jobs10
  19. Che Guevara37
  20. Bill Clinton19
  21. Charles de Gaulle75
  22. Angela Merkel11
  23. Neil Armstrong35
  24. François Hollande11
  25. Walt Disney64
  26. Elvis Presley30
  27. Margaret Thatcher40
  28. John Paul II45
  29. Gabriel García Márquez38
  30. Fidel Castro39
  31. J. R. R. Tolkien73
  32. Yuri Gagarin31
  33. Marlene Dietrich64
  34. Mikhail Gorbachev34
  35. Jean-Paul Sartre60
  36. Stephen Hawking23
  37. Le Corbusier77 †
  38. Mother Teresa55
  39. Jimmy Carter41
  40. Benedict XVI38
  41. Harry S. Truman81
  42. Agatha Christie75
  43. Hillary Clinton18
  44. George H. W. Bush41
  45. Jorge Luis Borges66
  46. Nicolas Sarkozy10
  47. Madonna7
  48. Kamala Harris1
  49. Dwight D. Eisenhower75
  50. Richard Nixon52
  51. Xi Jinping12
  52. Naruhito5
  53. Alfred Hitchcock66
  54. Noam Chomsky37
  55. Simone de Beauvoir57
  56. Hugo Chávez11
  57. Bertrand Russell93
  58. Muammar Gaddafi23
  59. John Lennon25
  60. Bob Dylan24
  61. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan11
  62. Pelé25
  63. Muhammad Ali23
  64. J. K. Rowlingborn
  65. Andy Warhol37
  66. Louis Armstrong64
  67. Kofi Annan27
  68. Osama bin Laden8
  69. Akira Kurosawa55
  70. Lech Wałęsa22
  71. Freddie Mercury19
  72. Charles III17
  73. Lyndon B. Johnson57
  74. Gerald Ford52
  75. Diego Maradona5
  76. Leo XIV10
  77. Indira Gandhi48
  78. Narendra Modi15
  79. Rafael Correa2
  80. Huang Xianfan66
  81. Naguib Mahfouz54
  82. Aung San Suu Kyi20
  83. Steven Spielberg19
  84. Nikita Khrushchev71
  85. Saddam Hussein28
  86. Benjamin Netanyahu16
  87. Helen Keller85
  88. Tenzin Gyatso30
  89. Dmitry Medvedevborn
  90. Pablo Neruda61
  91. Rafael Orozco Maestre11
  92. Igor Stravinsky83
  93. Bruce Lee25
  94. Silvio Berlusconi29
  95. Bob Marley20
  96. Shinzō Abe11
  97. Isaac Asimov45–46
  98. Tim Berners-Lee10
  99. Ingmar Bergman47
  100. Federico Fellini45
  101. Mahathir Mohamad40
  102. Boris Yeltsin34
  103. Ali Khamenei26
  104. Robin Williams14
  105. Jackie Chan11
  106. Kim Il-sung53
  107. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn47
  108. Jacques Chirac33
  109. Guillermo Lasso10
  110. T. S. Eliot76 †
  111. Stanley Kubrick37
  112. Kwame Nkrumah56
  113. Marlon Brando41
  114. Alexander Lukashenka11
  115. Hirohito64
  116. Richard Feynman47
  117. Woody Allen30
  118. Tony Blair12
  119. Yasser Arafat36
  120. Ho Chi Minh75

The 120 best known of 798 are listed.