Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1984?

858 of the people we track were surely alive in 1984. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1984: Basshunter, Kim Jong-un, Mark Zuckerberg, Scarlett Johansson, Avril Lavigne, Katy Perry, JD Vance and LeBron James.

Died in 1984: Indira Gandhi, Michel Foucault, Paul Dirac, Mikhail Sholokhov, Yuri Andropov, Truman Capote, François Truffaut and Pyotr Kapitsa.

  1. Barack Obama23
  2. Donald Trump38
  3. Michael Jackson26
  4. Vladimir Putin32
  5. Ronald Reagan73
  6. Nelson Mandela66
  7. George W. Bush38
  8. Joe Biden42
  9. Elizabeth II58
  10. Salvador Dalí80
  11. Bill Gates29
  12. Jimmy Wales18
  13. Pope Francis48
  14. Shakira7
  15. Steve Jobs29
  16. Bill Clinton38
  17. Basshunterborn
  18. Angela Merkel30
  19. Neil Armstrong54
  20. François Hollande30
  21. Volodymyr Zelenskyy6
  22. Margaret Thatcher59
  23. John Paul II64
  24. Gabriel García Márquez57
  25. Fidel Castro58
  26. Marlene Dietrich83
  27. Mikhail Gorbachev53
  28. Stephen Hawking42
  29. Elon Musk13
  30. Mother Teresa74
  31. Jimmy Carter60
  32. Benedict XVI57
  33. Emmanuel Macron7
  34. Hillary Clinton37
  35. George H. W. Bush60
  36. Jorge Luis Borges85
  37. Nicolas Sarkozy29
  38. Madonna26
  39. Kamala Harris20
  40. Richard Nixon71
  41. Xi Jinping31
  42. Naruhito24
  43. Noam Chomsky56
  44. Simone de Beauvoir76
  45. Hugo Chávez30
  46. Muammar Gaddafi42
  47. Sung Jae-gi17
  48. Bob Dylan43
  49. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan30
  50. Pelé44
  51. Muhammad Ali42
  52. J. K. Rowling19
  53. Andy Warhol56
  54. Kofi Annan46
  55. Osama bin Laden27
  56. Akira Kurosawa74
  57. Lech Wałęsa41
  58. Freddie Mercury38
  59. Charles III36
  60. Kim Jong-unborn
  61. Gerald Ford71
  62. Diego Maradona24
  63. Eminem12
  64. Beyoncé3
  65. Leo XIV29
  66. Indira Gandhi66 †
  67. Narendra Modi34
  68. Rafael Correa21
  69. Naguib Mahfouz73
  70. Aung San Suu Kyi39
  71. Steven Spielberg38
  72. Michael Schumacher15
  73. Angelina Jolie9
  74. Saddam Hussein47
  75. Benjamin Netanyahu35
  76. Tenzin Gyatso49
  77. Dmitry Medvedev19
  78. Anna Netrebko13
  79. Mark Zuckerbergborn
  80. Rafael Orozco Maestre30
  81. Silvio Berlusconi48
  82. Shinzō Abe30
  83. Isaac Asimov64–65
  84. Tim Berners-Lee29
  85. Ingmar Bergman66
  86. Federico Fellini64
  87. Mahathir Mohamad59
  88. Boris Yeltsin53
  89. Ali Khamenei45
  90. Robin Williams33
  91. Jackie Chan30
  92. Kim Il-sung72
  93. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn66
  94. Jacques Chirac52
  95. Guillermo Lasso29
  96. Céline Dion16
  97. Stanley Kubrick56
  98. Roger Federer3
  99. Marlon Brando60
  100. Alexander Lukashenka30
  101. Hirohito83
  102. Richard Feynman66
  103. Woody Allen49
  104. Tony Blair31
  105. Scarlett Johanssonborn
  106. Yasser Arafat55
  107. Ban Ki-moon40
  108. Arnold Schwarzenegger37
  109. David Cameron18
  110. Linus Torvalds15
  111. Brigitte Bardot50
  112. Hebe Camargo55
  113. Umberto Eco52
  114. Boris Johnson20
  115. Benazir Bhutto31
  116. Jair Bolsonaro29
  117. Diana, Princess of Wales23
  118. Bashar al-Assad19
  119. Audrey Hepburn55
  120. Paul McCartney42

The 120 best known of 858 are listed.