Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1985?

860 of the people we track were surely alive in 1985. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1985: Cristiano Ronaldo, Lana Del Rey, Lewis Hamilton, Luka Modrić, Michael Phelps, Keira Knightley, Bruno Mars and Wayne Rooney.

Died in 1985: Heinrich Böll, Orson Welles, Enver Hoxha, Marc Chagall and Konstantin Chernenko.

  1. Barack Obama24
  2. Donald Trump39
  3. Michael Jackson27
  4. Vladimir Putin33
  5. Ronald Reagan74
  6. Nelson Mandela67
  7. George W. Bush39
  8. Joe Biden43
  9. Elizabeth II59
  10. Salvador Dalí81
  11. Bill Gates30
  12. Jimmy Wales19
  13. Pope Francis49
  14. Shakira8
  15. Steve Jobs30
  16. Bill Clinton39
  17. Basshunter1
  18. Angela Merkel31
  19. Neil Armstrong55
  20. François Hollande31
  21. Cristiano Ronaldoborn
  22. Volodymyr Zelenskyy7
  23. Margaret Thatcher60
  24. John Paul II65
  25. Gabriel García Márquez58
  26. Fidel Castro59
  27. Marlene Dietrich84
  28. Mikhail Gorbachev54
  29. Stephen Hawking43
  30. Elon Musk14
  31. Mother Teresa75
  32. Jimmy Carter61
  33. Benedict XVI58
  34. Emmanuel Macron8
  35. Hillary Clinton38
  36. George H. W. Bush61
  37. Jorge Luis Borges86
  38. Nicolas Sarkozy30
  39. Madonna27
  40. Kamala Harris21
  41. Richard Nixon72
  42. Xi Jinping32
  43. Naruhito25
  44. Noam Chomsky57
  45. Simone de Beauvoir77
  46. Hugo Chávez31
  47. Muammar Gaddafi43
  48. Sung Jae-gi18
  49. Bob Dylan44
  50. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan31
  51. Pelé45
  52. Muhammad Ali43
  53. J. K. Rowling20
  54. Andy Warhol57
  55. Kofi Annan47
  56. Osama bin Laden28
  57. Akira Kurosawa75
  58. Lech Wałęsa42
  59. Freddie Mercury39
  60. Charles III37
  61. Kim Jong-un1
  62. Gerald Ford72
  63. Diego Maradona25
  64. Eminem13
  65. Beyoncé4
  66. Leo XIV30
  67. Narendra Modi35
  68. Rafael Correa22
  69. Naguib Mahfouz74
  70. Aung San Suu Kyi40
  71. Steven Spielberg39
  72. Michael Schumacher16
  73. Angelina Jolie10
  74. Saddam Hussein48
  75. Benjamin Netanyahu36
  76. Tenzin Gyatso50
  77. Dmitry Medvedev20
  78. Anna Netrebko14
  79. Mark Zuckerberg1
  80. Rafael Orozco Maestre31
  81. Silvio Berlusconi49
  82. Shinzō Abe31
  83. Isaac Asimov65–66
  84. Tim Berners-Lee30
  85. Ingmar Bergman67
  86. Federico Fellini65
  87. Mahathir Mohamad60
  88. Boris Yeltsin54
  89. Ali Khamenei46
  90. Robin Williams34
  91. Jackie Chan31
  92. Kim Il-sung73
  93. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn67
  94. Jacques Chirac53
  95. Guillermo Lasso30
  96. Céline Dion17
  97. Stanley Kubrick57
  98. Roger Federer4
  99. Lana Del Reyborn
  100. Marlon Brando61
  101. Alexander Lukashenka31
  102. Hirohito84
  103. Richard Feynman67
  104. Woody Allen50
  105. Tony Blair32
  106. Scarlett Johansson1
  107. Yasser Arafat56
  108. Ban Ki-moon41
  109. Arnold Schwarzenegger38
  110. David Cameron19
  111. Linus Torvalds16
  112. Brigitte Bardot51
  113. Hebe Camargo56
  114. Umberto Eco53
  115. Boris Johnson21
  116. Benazir Bhutto32
  117. Jair Bolsonaro30
  118. Diana, Princess of Wales24
  119. Bashar al-Assad20
  120. Audrey Hepburn56

The 120 best known of 860 are listed.