Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1975?

840 of the people we track were surely alive in 1975. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1975: Angelina Jolie, David Beckham, Bradley Cooper, Kate Winslet, Liz Truss, Charlize Theron, 50 Cent and Matteo Renzi.

Died in 1975: Chiang Kai-shek, Francisco Franco, Hannah Arendt, Ivo Andrić, Haile Selassie I, Umm Kulthum, Dmitri Shostakovich and Josephine Baker.

  1. Barack Obama14
  2. Donald Trump29
  3. Michael Jackson17
  4. Vladimir Putin23
  5. Ronald Reagan64
  6. Nelson Mandela57
  7. George W. Bush29
  8. Joe Biden33
  9. Charlie Chaplin86
  10. Elizabeth II49
  11. Salvador Dalí71
  12. Bill Gates20
  13. Jimmy Wales9
  14. Pope Francis39
  15. Mao Zedong82
  16. Steve Jobs20
  17. Bill Clinton29
  18. Angela Merkel21
  19. Neil Armstrong45
  20. François Hollande21
  21. Elvis Presley40
  22. Margaret Thatcher50
  23. John Paul II55
  24. Gabriel García Márquez48
  25. Fidel Castro49
  26. Marlene Dietrich74
  27. Mikhail Gorbachev44
  28. Jean-Paul Sartre70
  29. Stephen Hawking33
  30. Elon Musk4
  31. Mother Teresa65
  32. Jimmy Carter51
  33. Benedict XVI48
  34. Agatha Christie85
  35. Hillary Clinton28
  36. George H. W. Bush51
  37. Jorge Luis Borges76
  38. Nicolas Sarkozy20
  39. Madonna17
  40. Kamala Harris11
  41. Richard Nixon62
  42. Xi Jinping22
  43. Naruhito15
  44. Alfred Hitchcock76
  45. Noam Chomsky47
  46. Simone de Beauvoir67
  47. Hugo Chávez21
  48. Muammar Gaddafi33
  49. Sung Jae-gi8
  50. John Lennon35
  51. Bob Dylan34
  52. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan21
  53. Pelé35
  54. Muhammad Ali33
  55. J. K. Rowling10
  56. Andy Warhol47
  57. Kofi Annan37
  58. Osama bin Laden18
  59. Akira Kurosawa65
  60. Lech Wałęsa32
  61. Freddie Mercury29
  62. Charles III27
  63. Gerald Ford62
  64. Diego Maradona15
  65. Eminem3
  66. Leo XIV20
  67. Indira Gandhi58
  68. Narendra Modi25
  69. Rafael Correa12
  70. Huang Xianfan76
  71. Naguib Mahfouz64
  72. Aung San Suu Kyi30
  73. Steven Spielberg29
  74. Michael Schumacher6
  75. Angelina Jolieborn
  76. Saddam Hussein38
  77. Benjamin Netanyahu26
  78. Tenzin Gyatso40
  79. Dmitry Medvedev10
  80. Anna Netrebko4
  81. Rafael Orozco Maestre21
  82. Silvio Berlusconi39
  83. Bob Marley30
  84. Shinzō Abe21
  85. Isaac Asimov55–56
  86. Tim Berners-Lee20
  87. Ingmar Bergman57
  88. Federico Fellini55
  89. Mahathir Mohamad50
  90. Boris Yeltsin44
  91. Ali Khamenei36
  92. Robin Williams24
  93. Jackie Chan21
  94. Kim Il-sung63
  95. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn57
  96. Jacques Chirac43
  97. Guillermo Lasso20
  98. Céline Dion7
  99. Stanley Kubrick47
  100. Marlon Brando51
  101. Alexander Lukashenka21
  102. Hirohito74
  103. Richard Feynman57
  104. Woody Allen40
  105. Tony Blair22
  106. Yasser Arafat46
  107. Ban Ki-moon31
  108. Arnold Schwarzenegger28
  109. David Cameron9
  110. Linus Torvalds6
  111. Brigitte Bardot41
  112. Vladimir Nabokov76
  113. Hebe Camargo46
  114. Umberto Eco43
  115. Boris Johnson11
  116. Benazir Bhutto22
  117. Jair Bolsonaro20
  118. Diana, Princess of Wales14
  119. Bashar al-Assad10
  120. Audrey Hepburn46

The 120 best known of 840 are listed.