Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1969?

825 of the people we track were surely alive in 1969. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1969: Michael Schumacher, Linus Torvalds, Jennifer Lopez, Cate Blanchett, Jennifer Aniston, Mariah Carey, Jason Bateman and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Died in 1969: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ho Chi Minh, Judy Garland, Theodor W. Adorno, Jack Kerouac and Karl Jaspers.

  1. Barack Obama8
  2. Donald Trump23
  3. Michael Jackson11
  4. Vladimir Putin17
  5. Ronald Reagan58
  6. Nelson Mandela51
  7. George W. Bush23
  8. Joe Biden27
  9. Pablo Picasso88
  10. Charlie Chaplin80
  11. Elizabeth II43
  12. Salvador Dalí65
  13. Bill Gates14
  14. Jimmy Wales3
  15. Pope Francis33
  16. Mao Zedong76
  17. Steve Jobs14
  18. Bill Clinton23
  19. Charles de Gaulle79
  20. Angela Merkel15
  21. Neil Armstrong39
  22. François Hollande15
  23. Elvis Presley34
  24. Margaret Thatcher44
  25. John Paul II49
  26. Gabriel García Márquez42
  27. Fidel Castro43
  28. J. R. R. Tolkien77
  29. Marlene Dietrich68
  30. Mikhail Gorbachev38
  31. Jean-Paul Sartre64
  32. Stephen Hawking27
  33. Mother Teresa59
  34. Jimmy Carter45
  35. Benedict XVI42
  36. Harry S. Truman85
  37. Agatha Christie79
  38. Hillary Clinton22
  39. George H. W. Bush45
  40. Jorge Luis Borges70
  41. Nicolas Sarkozy14
  42. Madonna11
  43. Kamala Harris5
  44. Dwight D. Eisenhower78 †
  45. Richard Nixon56
  46. Xi Jinping16
  47. Naruhito9
  48. Alfred Hitchcock70
  49. Noam Chomsky41
  50. Simone de Beauvoir61
  51. Hugo Chávez15
  52. Bertrand Russell97
  53. Muammar Gaddafi27
  54. Sung Jae-gi2
  55. John Lennon29
  56. Bob Dylan28
  57. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan15
  58. Pelé29
  59. Muhammad Ali27
  60. J. K. Rowling4
  61. Andy Warhol41
  62. Louis Armstrong68
  63. Kofi Annan31
  64. Osama bin Laden12
  65. Akira Kurosawa59
  66. Lech Wałęsa26
  67. Freddie Mercury23
  68. Charles III21
  69. Lyndon B. Johnson61
  70. Gerald Ford56
  71. Diego Maradona9
  72. Leo XIV14
  73. Indira Gandhi52
  74. Narendra Modi19
  75. Rafael Correa6
  76. Huang Xianfan70
  77. Naguib Mahfouz58
  78. Aung San Suu Kyi24
  79. Steven Spielberg23
  80. Michael Schumacherborn
  81. Nikita Khrushchev75
  82. Saddam Hussein32
  83. Benjamin Netanyahu20
  84. Tenzin Gyatso34
  85. Dmitry Medvedev4
  86. Pablo Neruda65
  87. Rafael Orozco Maestre15
  88. Igor Stravinsky87
  89. Bruce Lee29
  90. Silvio Berlusconi33
  91. Bob Marley24
  92. Shinzō Abe15
  93. Isaac Asimov49–50
  94. Tim Berners-Lee14
  95. Ingmar Bergman51
  96. Federico Fellini49
  97. Mahathir Mohamad44
  98. Boris Yeltsin38
  99. Ali Khamenei30
  100. Robin Williams18
  101. Jackie Chan15
  102. Kim Il-sung57
  103. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn51
  104. Jacques Chirac37
  105. Guillermo Lasso14
  106. Céline Dion1
  107. Stanley Kubrick41
  108. Kwame Nkrumah60
  109. Marlon Brando45
  110. Alexander Lukashenka15
  111. Hirohito68
  112. Richard Feynman51
  113. Woody Allen34
  114. Tony Blair16
  115. Yasser Arafat40
  116. Ho Chi Minh79 †
  117. Judy Garland47 †
  118. Ban Ki-moon25
  119. Arnold Schwarzenegger22
  120. David Cameron3

The 120 best known of 825 are listed.