Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1974?

831 of the people we track were surely alive in 1974. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1974: Anggun, Leonardo DiCaprio, Penélope Cruz, Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Victoria Beckham, Alexis Tsipras and Hilary Swank.

Died in 1974: Georges Pompidou, Georgy Zhukov, Miguel Ángel Asturias, James Chadwick, Pär Lagerkvist and Juan Perón.

  1. Barack Obama13
  2. Donald Trump28
  3. Michael Jackson16
  4. Vladimir Putin22
  5. Ronald Reagan63
  6. Nelson Mandela56
  7. George W. Bush28
  8. Joe Biden32
  9. Charlie Chaplin85
  10. Elizabeth II48
  11. Salvador Dalí70
  12. Bill Gates19
  13. Jimmy Wales8
  14. Pope Francis38
  15. Mao Zedong81
  16. Steve Jobs19
  17. Bill Clinton28
  18. Angela Merkel20
  19. Neil Armstrong44
  20. François Hollande20
  21. Elvis Presley39
  22. Margaret Thatcher49
  23. John Paul II54
  24. Gabriel García Márquez47
  25. Fidel Castro48
  26. Marlene Dietrich73
  27. Mikhail Gorbachev43
  28. Jean-Paul Sartre69
  29. Stephen Hawking32
  30. Elon Musk3
  31. Mother Teresa64
  32. Jimmy Carter50
  33. Benedict XVI47
  34. Agatha Christie84
  35. Hillary Clinton27
  36. George H. W. Bush50
  37. Jorge Luis Borges75
  38. Nicolas Sarkozy19
  39. Madonna16
  40. Kamala Harris10
  41. Richard Nixon61
  42. Xi Jinping21
  43. Naruhito14
  44. Alfred Hitchcock75
  45. Noam Chomsky46
  46. Simone de Beauvoir66
  47. Hugo Chávez20
  48. Muammar Gaddafi32
  49. Sung Jae-gi7
  50. John Lennon34
  51. Bob Dylan33
  52. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan20
  53. Pelé34
  54. Muhammad Ali32
  55. J. K. Rowling9
  56. Andy Warhol46
  57. Kofi Annan36
  58. Osama bin Laden17
  59. Akira Kurosawa64
  60. Lech Wałęsa31
  61. Freddie Mercury28
  62. Charles III26
  63. Gerald Ford61
  64. Diego Maradona14
  65. Eminem2
  66. Leo XIV19
  67. Indira Gandhi57
  68. Narendra Modi24
  69. Rafael Correa11
  70. Huang Xianfan75
  71. Naguib Mahfouz63
  72. Aung San Suu Kyi29
  73. Steven Spielberg28
  74. Michael Schumacher5
  75. Saddam Hussein37
  76. Benjamin Netanyahu25
  77. Tenzin Gyatso39
  78. Dmitry Medvedev9
  79. Anna Netrebko3
  80. Rafael Orozco Maestre20
  81. Silvio Berlusconi38
  82. Bob Marley29
  83. Shinzō Abe20
  84. Isaac Asimov54–55
  85. Tim Berners-Lee19
  86. Ingmar Bergman56
  87. Federico Fellini54
  88. Mahathir Mohamad49
  89. Boris Yeltsin43
  90. Ali Khamenei35
  91. Robin Williams23
  92. Jackie Chan20
  93. Kim Il-sung62
  94. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn56
  95. Jacques Chirac42
  96. Guillermo Lasso19
  97. Céline Dion6
  98. Stanley Kubrick46
  99. Marlon Brando50
  100. Alexander Lukashenka20
  101. Hirohito73
  102. Richard Feynman56
  103. Woody Allen39
  104. Tony Blair21
  105. Yasser Arafat45
  106. Ban Ki-moon30
  107. Arnold Schwarzenegger27
  108. David Cameron8
  109. Linus Torvalds5
  110. Brigitte Bardot40
  111. Vladimir Nabokov75
  112. Hebe Camargo45
  113. Umberto Eco42
  114. Boris Johnson10
  115. Benazir Bhutto21
  116. Jair Bolsonaro19
  117. Diana, Princess of Wales13
  118. Bashar al-Assad9
  119. Audrey Hepburn45
  120. Paul McCartney32

The 120 best known of 831 are listed.