Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1968?

820 of the people we track were surely alive in 1968. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1968: Céline Dion, Will Smith, Kylie Minogue, Felipe VI of Spain, Marine Le Pen, Lila Downs, Larry Sanger and Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović.

Died in 1968: Martin Luther King Jr., Yuri Gagarin, Helen Keller, John Steinbeck, Lev Landau, Robert F. Kennedy, Otto Hahn and Salvatore Quasimodo.

  1. Barack Obama7
  2. Donald Trump22
  3. Michael Jackson10
  4. Vladimir Putin16
  5. Ronald Reagan57
  6. Nelson Mandela50
  7. George W. Bush22
  8. Joe Biden26
  9. Pablo Picasso87
  10. Charlie Chaplin79
  11. Elizabeth II42
  12. Martin Luther King Jr.39 †
  13. Salvador Dalí64
  14. Bill Gates13
  15. Jimmy Wales2
  16. Pope Francis32
  17. Mao Zedong75
  18. Steve Jobs13
  19. Bill Clinton22
  20. Charles de Gaulle78
  21. Angela Merkel14
  22. Neil Armstrong38
  23. François Hollande14
  24. Elvis Presley33
  25. Margaret Thatcher43
  26. John Paul II48
  27. Gabriel García Márquez41
  28. Fidel Castro42
  29. J. R. R. Tolkien76
  30. Yuri Gagarin34 †
  31. Marlene Dietrich67
  32. Mikhail Gorbachev37
  33. Jean-Paul Sartre63
  34. Stephen Hawking26
  35. Mother Teresa58
  36. Jimmy Carter44
  37. Benedict XVI41
  38. Harry S. Truman84
  39. Agatha Christie78
  40. Hillary Clinton21
  41. George H. W. Bush44
  42. Jorge Luis Borges69
  43. Nicolas Sarkozy13
  44. Madonna10
  45. Kamala Harris4
  46. Dwight D. Eisenhower78
  47. Richard Nixon55
  48. Xi Jinping15
  49. Naruhito8
  50. Alfred Hitchcock69
  51. Noam Chomsky40
  52. Simone de Beauvoir60
  53. Hugo Chávez14
  54. Bertrand Russell96
  55. Muammar Gaddafi26
  56. Sung Jae-gi1
  57. John Lennon28
  58. Bob Dylan27
  59. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan14
  60. Pelé28
  61. Muhammad Ali26
  62. J. K. Rowling3
  63. Andy Warhol40
  64. Louis Armstrong67
  65. Kofi Annan30
  66. Osama bin Laden11
  67. Akira Kurosawa58
  68. Lech Wałęsa25
  69. Freddie Mercury22
  70. Charles III20
  71. Lyndon B. Johnson60
  72. Gerald Ford55
  73. Diego Maradona8
  74. Leo XIV13
  75. Indira Gandhi51
  76. Narendra Modi18
  77. Rafael Correa5
  78. Huang Xianfan69
  79. Naguib Mahfouz57
  80. Aung San Suu Kyi23
  81. Steven Spielberg22
  82. Nikita Khrushchev74
  83. Saddam Hussein31
  84. Benjamin Netanyahu19
  85. Helen Keller87 †
  86. Tenzin Gyatso33
  87. Dmitry Medvedev3
  88. Pablo Neruda64
  89. Rafael Orozco Maestre14
  90. Igor Stravinsky86
  91. Bruce Lee28
  92. Silvio Berlusconi32
  93. Bob Marley23
  94. Shinzō Abe14
  95. Isaac Asimov48–49
  96. Tim Berners-Lee13
  97. Ingmar Bergman50
  98. Federico Fellini48
  99. Mahathir Mohamad43
  100. Boris Yeltsin37
  101. Ali Khamenei29
  102. Robin Williams17
  103. Jackie Chan14
  104. Kim Il-sung56
  105. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn50
  106. Jacques Chirac36
  107. Guillermo Lasso13
  108. Céline Dionborn
  109. Stanley Kubrick40
  110. Kwame Nkrumah59
  111. Marlon Brando44
  112. Alexander Lukashenka14
  113. Hirohito67
  114. Richard Feynman50
  115. Woody Allen33
  116. Tony Blair15
  117. Yasser Arafat39
  118. Ho Chi Minh78
  119. Judy Garland46
  120. Ban Ki-moon24

The 120 best known of 820 are listed.