Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1970?

827 of the people we track were surely alive in 1970. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1970: Melania Trump, Matt Damon, Christopher Nolan, Simon Pegg, Uma Thurman, Andre Agassi, Han Kang and Rachel Weisz.

Died in 1970: Charles de Gaulle, Bertrand Russell, Jimi Hendrix, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Sukarno, Erich Maria Remarque, Max Born and François Mauriac.

  1. Barack Obama9
  2. Donald Trump24
  3. Michael Jackson12
  4. Vladimir Putin18
  5. Ronald Reagan59
  6. Nelson Mandela52
  7. George W. Bush24
  8. Joe Biden28
  9. Pablo Picasso89
  10. Charlie Chaplin81
  11. Elizabeth II44
  12. Salvador Dalí66
  13. Bill Gates15
  14. Jimmy Wales4
  15. Pope Francis34
  16. Mao Zedong77
  17. Steve Jobs15
  18. Bill Clinton24
  19. Charles de Gaulle79 †
  20. Angela Merkel16
  21. Neil Armstrong40
  22. François Hollande16
  23. Elvis Presley35
  24. Margaret Thatcher45
  25. John Paul II50
  26. Gabriel García Márquez43
  27. Fidel Castro44
  28. J. R. R. Tolkien78
  29. Marlene Dietrich69
  30. Mikhail Gorbachev39
  31. Jean-Paul Sartre65
  32. Stephen Hawking28
  33. Mother Teresa60
  34. Jimmy Carter46
  35. Benedict XVI43
  36. Harry S. Truman86
  37. Agatha Christie80
  38. Hillary Clinton23
  39. George H. W. Bush46
  40. Jorge Luis Borges71
  41. Nicolas Sarkozy15
  42. Madonna12
  43. Kamala Harris6
  44. Richard Nixon57
  45. Xi Jinping17
  46. Naruhito10
  47. Alfred Hitchcock71
  48. Noam Chomsky42
  49. Simone de Beauvoir62
  50. Hugo Chávez16
  51. Bertrand Russell97 †
  52. Muammar Gaddafi28
  53. Sung Jae-gi3
  54. John Lennon30
  55. Bob Dylan29
  56. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan16
  57. Pelé30
  58. Muhammad Ali28
  59. J. K. Rowling5
  60. Andy Warhol42
  61. Louis Armstrong69
  62. Kofi Annan32
  63. Osama bin Laden13
  64. Akira Kurosawa60
  65. Lech Wałęsa27
  66. Freddie Mercury24
  67. Charles III22
  68. Lyndon B. Johnson62
  69. Gerald Ford57
  70. Diego Maradona10
  71. Leo XIV15
  72. Indira Gandhi53
  73. Narendra Modi20
  74. Rafael Correa7
  75. Huang Xianfan71
  76. Naguib Mahfouz59
  77. Aung San Suu Kyi25
  78. Steven Spielberg24
  79. Michael Schumacher1
  80. Nikita Khrushchev76
  81. Saddam Hussein33
  82. Benjamin Netanyahu21
  83. Tenzin Gyatso35
  84. Dmitry Medvedev5
  85. Pablo Neruda66
  86. Rafael Orozco Maestre16
  87. Igor Stravinsky88
  88. Bruce Lee30
  89. Silvio Berlusconi34
  90. Bob Marley25
  91. Shinzō Abe16
  92. Isaac Asimov50–51
  93. Tim Berners-Lee15
  94. Ingmar Bergman52
  95. Federico Fellini50
  96. Mahathir Mohamad45
  97. Boris Yeltsin39
  98. Ali Khamenei31
  99. Robin Williams19
  100. Jackie Chan16
  101. Kim Il-sung58
  102. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn52
  103. Jacques Chirac38
  104. Guillermo Lasso15
  105. Céline Dion2
  106. Stanley Kubrick42
  107. Kwame Nkrumah61
  108. Marlon Brando46
  109. Alexander Lukashenka16
  110. Hirohito69
  111. Richard Feynman52
  112. Woody Allen35
  113. Tony Blair17
  114. Yasser Arafat41
  115. Ban Ki-moon26
  116. Arnold Schwarzenegger23
  117. David Cameron4
  118. Linus Torvalds1
  119. Brigitte Bardot36
  120. Vladimir Nabokov71

The 120 best known of 827 are listed.