Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1989?

869 of the people we track were surely alive in 1989. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1989: Corbin Bleu, Taylor Swift, Daniel Radcliffe, Gareth Bale, Thomas Müller and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Died in 1989: Salvador Dalí, Hirohito, Samuel Beckett, Ferdinand Marcos, Ruhollah Khomeini, Nicolae Ceaușescu, Andrei Sakharov and Bette Davis.

  1. Barack Obama28
  2. Donald Trump43
  3. Michael Jackson31
  4. Vladimir Putin37
  5. Ronald Reagan78
  6. Nelson Mandela71
  7. George W. Bush43
  8. Joe Biden47
  9. Elizabeth II63
  10. Salvador Dalí84 †
  11. Bill Gates34
  12. Jimmy Wales23
  13. Pope Francis53
  14. Shakira12
  15. Steve Jobs34
  16. Lionel Messi2
  17. Corbin Bleuborn
  18. Bill Clinton43
  19. Basshunter5
  20. Angela Merkel35
  21. Neil Armstrong59
  22. François Hollande35
  23. Cristiano Ronaldo4
  24. Volodymyr Zelenskyy11
  25. Margaret Thatcher64
  26. John Paul II69
  27. Gabriel García Márquez62
  28. Fidel Castro63
  29. Marlene Dietrich88
  30. Mikhail Gorbachev58
  31. Stephen Hawking47
  32. Elon Musk18
  33. Mother Teresa79
  34. Jimmy Carter65
  35. Benedict XVI62
  36. Emmanuel Macron12
  37. Hillary Clinton42
  38. Lady Gaga3
  39. George H. W. Bush65
  40. Nicolas Sarkozy34
  41. Madonna31
  42. Kamala Harris25
  43. Richard Nixon76
  44. Xi Jinping36
  45. Naruhito29
  46. Noam Chomsky61
  47. Hugo Chávez35
  48. Muammar Gaddafi47
  49. Sung Jae-gi22
  50. Bob Dylan48
  51. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan35
  52. Pelé49
  53. Muhammad Ali47
  54. J. K. Rowling24
  55. Kofi Annan51
  56. Taylor Swiftborn
  57. Osama bin Laden32
  58. Akira Kurosawa79
  59. Lech Wałęsa46
  60. Freddie Mercury43
  61. Charles III41
  62. Kim Jong-un5
  63. Gerald Ford76
  64. Diego Maradona29
  65. Eminem17
  66. Beyoncé8
  67. Leo XIV34
  68. Narendra Modi39
  69. Rafael Correa26
  70. Naguib Mahfouz78
  71. Aung San Suu Kyi44
  72. Steven Spielberg43
  73. Michael Schumacher20
  74. Angelina Jolie14
  75. Saddam Hussein52
  76. Benjamin Netanyahu40
  77. Tenzin Gyatso54
  78. Dmitry Medvedev24
  79. Anna Netrebko18
  80. Mark Zuckerberg5
  81. Rafael Orozco Maestre35
  82. Silvio Berlusconi53
  83. Shinzō Abe35
  84. Isaac Asimov69–70
  85. Tim Berners-Lee34
  86. Ingmar Bergman71
  87. Federico Fellini69
  88. Mahathir Mohamad64
  89. Boris Yeltsin58
  90. Ali Khamenei50
  91. Robin Williams38
  92. Jackie Chan35
  93. Kim Il-sung77
  94. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn71
  95. Jacques Chirac57
  96. Guillermo Lasso34
  97. Céline Dion21
  98. Stanley Kubrick61
  99. Roger Federer8
  100. Lana Del Rey4
  101. Marlon Brando65
  102. Alexander Lukashenka35
  103. Hirohito87 †
  104. Woody Allen54
  105. Tony Blair36
  106. Rihanna1
  107. Scarlett Johansson5
  108. Yasser Arafat60
  109. Rafael Nadal3
  110. Ban Ki-moon45
  111. Arnold Schwarzenegger42
  112. David Cameron23
  113. Linus Torvalds20
  114. Brigitte Bardot55
  115. Novak Djokovic2
  116. Hebe Camargo60
  117. Umberto Eco57
  118. Boris Johnson25
  119. Benazir Bhutto36
  120. Jair Bolsonaro34

The 120 best known of 869 are listed.