Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1990?

863 of the people we track were surely alive in 1990. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1990: Emma Watson, Jennifer Lawrence, Magnus Carlsen, Kristen Stewart and Margot Robbie.

Died in 1990: Greta Garbo, Roald Dahl, Osho, Patrick White and Alberto Moravia.

  1. Barack Obama29
  2. Donald Trump44
  3. Michael Jackson32
  4. Vladimir Putin38
  5. Ronald Reagan79
  6. Nelson Mandela72
  7. George W. Bush44
  8. Joe Biden48
  9. Elizabeth II64
  10. Bill Gates35
  11. Jimmy Wales24
  12. Pope Francis54
  13. Shakira13
  14. Steve Jobs35
  15. Lionel Messi3
  16. Corbin Bleu1
  17. Bill Clinton44
  18. Basshunter6
  19. Angela Merkel36
  20. Neil Armstrong60
  21. François Hollande36
  22. Cristiano Ronaldo5
  23. Volodymyr Zelenskyy12
  24. Margaret Thatcher65
  25. John Paul II70
  26. Gabriel García Márquez63
  27. Fidel Castro64
  28. Marlene Dietrich89
  29. Mikhail Gorbachev59
  30. Stephen Hawking48
  31. Elon Musk19
  32. Mother Teresa80
  33. Jimmy Carter66
  34. Benedict XVI63
  35. Emmanuel Macron13
  36. Hillary Clinton43
  37. Lady Gaga4
  38. George H. W. Bush66
  39. Nicolas Sarkozy35
  40. Madonna32
  41. Kamala Harris26
  42. Richard Nixon77
  43. Xi Jinping37
  44. Naruhito30
  45. Noam Chomsky62
  46. Hugo Chávez36
  47. Muammar Gaddafi48
  48. Sung Jae-gi23
  49. Bob Dylan49
  50. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan36
  51. Pelé50
  52. Muhammad Ali48
  53. J. K. Rowling25
  54. Kofi Annan52
  55. Taylor Swift1
  56. Osama bin Laden33
  57. Akira Kurosawa80
  58. Lech Wałęsa47
  59. Freddie Mercury44
  60. Charles III42
  61. Kim Jong-un6
  62. Gerald Ford77
  63. Diego Maradona30
  64. Eminem18
  65. Beyoncé9
  66. Leo XIV35
  67. Narendra Modi40
  68. Rafael Correa27
  69. Naguib Mahfouz79
  70. Aung San Suu Kyi45
  71. Steven Spielberg44
  72. Michael Schumacher21
  73. Angelina Jolie15
  74. Saddam Hussein53
  75. Benjamin Netanyahu41
  76. Tenzin Gyatso55
  77. Dmitry Medvedev25
  78. Anna Netrebko19
  79. Mark Zuckerberg6
  80. Rafael Orozco Maestre36
  81. Silvio Berlusconi54
  82. Shinzō Abe36
  83. Isaac Asimov70–71
  84. Tim Berners-Lee35
  85. Ingmar Bergman72
  86. Federico Fellini70
  87. Mahathir Mohamad65
  88. Boris Yeltsin59
  89. Ali Khamenei51
  90. Robin Williams39
  91. Jackie Chan36
  92. Kim Il-sung78
  93. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn72
  94. Jacques Chirac58
  95. Guillermo Lasso35
  96. Céline Dion22
  97. Stanley Kubrick62
  98. Roger Federer9
  99. Lana Del Rey5
  100. Marlon Brando66
  101. Alexander Lukashenka36
  102. Woody Allen55
  103. Tony Blair37
  104. Rihanna2
  105. Scarlett Johansson6
  106. Yasser Arafat61
  107. Rafael Nadal4
  108. Ban Ki-moon46
  109. Arnold Schwarzenegger43
  110. David Cameron24
  111. Linus Torvalds21
  112. Brigitte Bardot56
  113. Novak Djokovic3
  114. Hebe Camargo61
  115. Umberto Eco58
  116. Boris Johnson26
  117. Benazir Bhutto37
  118. Jair Bolsonaro35
  119. Diana, Princess of Wales29
  120. Bashar al-Assad25

The 120 best known of 863 are listed.