Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1987?

866 of the people we track were surely alive in 1987. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1987: Lionel Messi, Novak Djokovic, Luis Suárez, Maria Sharapova, Karim Benzema, Sebastian Vettel, Zac Efron and Gerard Piqué.

Died in 1987: Andy Warhol, Rita Hayworth, Fred Astaire, Louis de Broglie, Thomas Sankara, Primo Levi and Marguerite Yourcenar.

  1. Barack Obama26
  2. Donald Trump41
  3. Michael Jackson29
  4. Vladimir Putin35
  5. Ronald Reagan76
  6. Nelson Mandela69
  7. George W. Bush41
  8. Joe Biden45
  9. Elizabeth II61
  10. Salvador Dalí83
  11. Bill Gates32
  12. Jimmy Wales21
  13. Pope Francis51
  14. Shakira10
  15. Steve Jobs32
  16. Lionel Messiborn
  17. Bill Clinton41
  18. Basshunter3
  19. Angela Merkel33
  20. Neil Armstrong57
  21. François Hollande33
  22. Cristiano Ronaldo2
  23. Volodymyr Zelenskyy9
  24. Margaret Thatcher62
  25. John Paul II67
  26. Gabriel García Márquez60
  27. Fidel Castro61
  28. Marlene Dietrich86
  29. Mikhail Gorbachev56
  30. Stephen Hawking45
  31. Elon Musk16
  32. Mother Teresa77
  33. Jimmy Carter63
  34. Benedict XVI60
  35. Emmanuel Macron10
  36. Hillary Clinton40
  37. Lady Gaga1
  38. George H. W. Bush63
  39. Nicolas Sarkozy32
  40. Madonna29
  41. Kamala Harris23
  42. Richard Nixon74
  43. Xi Jinping34
  44. Naruhito27
  45. Noam Chomsky59
  46. Hugo Chávez33
  47. Muammar Gaddafi45
  48. Sung Jae-gi20
  49. Bob Dylan46
  50. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan33
  51. Pelé47
  52. Muhammad Ali45
  53. J. K. Rowling22
  54. Andy Warhol58 †
  55. Kofi Annan49
  56. Osama bin Laden30
  57. Akira Kurosawa77
  58. Lech Wałęsa44
  59. Freddie Mercury41
  60. Charles III39
  61. Kim Jong-un3
  62. Gerald Ford74
  63. Diego Maradona27
  64. Eminem15
  65. Beyoncé6
  66. Leo XIV32
  67. Narendra Modi37
  68. Rafael Correa24
  69. Naguib Mahfouz76
  70. Aung San Suu Kyi42
  71. Steven Spielberg41
  72. Michael Schumacher18
  73. Angelina Jolie12
  74. Saddam Hussein50
  75. Benjamin Netanyahu38
  76. Tenzin Gyatso52
  77. Dmitry Medvedev22
  78. Anna Netrebko16
  79. Mark Zuckerberg3
  80. Rafael Orozco Maestre33
  81. Silvio Berlusconi51
  82. Shinzō Abe33
  83. Isaac Asimov67–68
  84. Tim Berners-Lee32
  85. Ingmar Bergman69
  86. Federico Fellini67
  87. Mahathir Mohamad62
  88. Boris Yeltsin56
  89. Ali Khamenei48
  90. Robin Williams36
  91. Jackie Chan33
  92. Kim Il-sung75
  93. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn69
  94. Jacques Chirac55
  95. Guillermo Lasso32
  96. Céline Dion19
  97. Stanley Kubrick59
  98. Roger Federer6
  99. Lana Del Rey2
  100. Marlon Brando63
  101. Alexander Lukashenka33
  102. Hirohito86
  103. Richard Feynman69
  104. Woody Allen52
  105. Tony Blair34
  106. Scarlett Johansson3
  107. Yasser Arafat58
  108. Rafael Nadal1
  109. Ban Ki-moon43
  110. Arnold Schwarzenegger40
  111. David Cameron21
  112. Linus Torvalds18
  113. Brigitte Bardot53
  114. Novak Djokovicborn
  115. Hebe Camargo58
  116. Umberto Eco55
  117. Boris Johnson23
  118. Benazir Bhutto34
  119. Jair Bolsonaro32
  120. Diana, Princess of Wales26

The 120 best known of 866 are listed.