Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1978?

836 of the people we track were surely alive in 1978. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1978: Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Kobe Bryant, Gianluigi Buffon, Frank Lampard, Miroslav Klose, Rachel McAdams and Didier Drogba.

Died in 1978: Golda Meir, John Paul I, Paul VI, Kurt Gödel, Margaret Mead, Aldo Moro and Jomo Kenyatta.

  1. Barack Obama17
  2. Donald Trump32
  3. Michael Jackson20
  4. Vladimir Putin26
  5. Ronald Reagan67
  6. Nelson Mandela60
  7. George W. Bush32
  8. Joe Biden36
  9. Elizabeth II52
  10. Salvador Dalí74
  11. Bill Gates23
  12. Jimmy Wales12
  13. Pope Francis42
  14. Shakira1
  15. Steve Jobs23
  16. Bill Clinton32
  17. Angela Merkel24
  18. Neil Armstrong48
  19. François Hollande24
  20. Volodymyr Zelenskyyborn
  21. Margaret Thatcher53
  22. John Paul II58
  23. Gabriel García Márquez51
  24. Fidel Castro52
  25. Marlene Dietrich77
  26. Mikhail Gorbachev47
  27. Jean-Paul Sartre73
  28. Stephen Hawking36
  29. Elon Musk7
  30. Mother Teresa68
  31. Jimmy Carter54
  32. Benedict XVI51
  33. Emmanuel Macron1
  34. Hillary Clinton31
  35. George H. W. Bush54
  36. Jorge Luis Borges79
  37. Nicolas Sarkozy23
  38. Madonna20
  39. Kamala Harris14
  40. Richard Nixon65
  41. Xi Jinping25
  42. Naruhito18
  43. Alfred Hitchcock79
  44. Noam Chomsky50
  45. Simone de Beauvoir70
  46. Hugo Chávez24
  47. Muammar Gaddafi36
  48. Sung Jae-gi11
  49. John Lennon38
  50. Bob Dylan37
  51. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan24
  52. Pelé38
  53. Muhammad Ali36
  54. J. K. Rowling13
  55. Andy Warhol50
  56. Kofi Annan40
  57. Osama bin Laden21
  58. Akira Kurosawa68
  59. Lech Wałęsa35
  60. Freddie Mercury32
  61. Charles III30
  62. Gerald Ford65
  63. Diego Maradona18
  64. Eminem6
  65. Leo XIV23
  66. Indira Gandhi61
  67. Narendra Modi28
  68. Rafael Correa15
  69. Huang Xianfan79
  70. Naguib Mahfouz67
  71. Aung San Suu Kyi33
  72. Steven Spielberg32
  73. Michael Schumacher9
  74. Angelina Jolie3
  75. Saddam Hussein41
  76. Benjamin Netanyahu29
  77. Tenzin Gyatso43
  78. Dmitry Medvedev13
  79. Anna Netrebko7
  80. Rafael Orozco Maestre24
  81. Silvio Berlusconi42
  82. Bob Marley33
  83. Shinzō Abe24
  84. Isaac Asimov58–59
  85. Tim Berners-Lee23
  86. Ingmar Bergman60
  87. Federico Fellini58
  88. Mahathir Mohamad53
  89. Boris Yeltsin47
  90. Ali Khamenei39
  91. Robin Williams27
  92. Jackie Chan24
  93. Kim Il-sung66
  94. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn60
  95. Jacques Chirac46
  96. Guillermo Lasso23
  97. Céline Dion10
  98. Stanley Kubrick50
  99. Marlon Brando54
  100. Alexander Lukashenka24
  101. Hirohito77
  102. Richard Feynman60
  103. Woody Allen43
  104. Tony Blair25
  105. Yasser Arafat49
  106. Ban Ki-moon34
  107. Arnold Schwarzenegger31
  108. David Cameron12
  109. Linus Torvalds9
  110. Brigitte Bardot44
  111. Hebe Camargo49
  112. Umberto Eco46
  113. Boris Johnson14
  114. Benazir Bhutto25
  115. Jair Bolsonaro23
  116. Diana, Princess of Wales17
  117. Bashar al-Assad13
  118. Audrey Hepburn49
  119. Paul McCartney36
  120. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva33

The 120 best known of 836 are listed.