Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1996?

841 of the people we track were surely alive in 1996. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1996: Tom Holland and Zendaya.

Died in 1996: Carl Sagan, François Mitterrand, Tupac Shakur, Joseph Brodsky, Ella Fitzgerald and Marcello Mastroianni.

  1. Barack Obama35
  2. Donald Trump50
  3. Michael Jackson38
  4. Vladimir Putin44
  5. Ronald Reagan85
  6. Nelson Mandela78
  7. George W. Bush50
  8. Joe Biden54
  9. Elizabeth II70
  10. Bill Gates41
  11. Jimmy Wales30
  12. Pope Francis60
  13. Shakira19
  14. Steve Jobs41
  15. Lionel Messi9
  16. Corbin Bleu7
  17. Bill Clinton50
  18. Basshunter12
  19. Angela Merkel42
  20. Neil Armstrong66
  21. François Hollande42
  22. Cristiano Ronaldo11
  23. Volodymyr Zelenskyy18
  24. Margaret Thatcher71
  25. John Paul II76
  26. Gabriel García Márquez69
  27. Fidel Castro70
  28. Mikhail Gorbachev65
  29. Stephen Hawking54
  30. Elon Musk25
  31. Mother Teresa86
  32. Jimmy Carter72
  33. Benedict XVI69
  34. Emmanuel Macron19
  35. Hillary Clinton49
  36. Lady Gaga10
  37. George H. W. Bush72
  38. Nicolas Sarkozy41
  39. Madonna38
  40. Kamala Harris32
  41. Xi Jinping43
  42. Naruhito36
  43. Noam Chomsky68
  44. Hugo Chávez42
  45. Muammar Gaddafi54
  46. Sung Jae-gi29
  47. Bob Dylan55
  48. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan42
  49. Pelé56
  50. Muhammad Ali54
  51. J. K. Rowling31
  52. Justin Bieber2
  53. Kofi Annan58
  54. Taylor Swift7
  55. Osama bin Laden39
  56. Akira Kurosawa86
  57. Lech Wałęsa53
  58. Charles III48
  59. Kim Jong-un12
  60. Gerald Ford83
  61. Diego Maradona36
  62. Eminem24
  63. Beyoncé15
  64. Selena Gomez4
  65. Leo XIV41
  66. Narendra Modi46
  67. Rafael Correa33
  68. Naguib Mahfouz85
  69. Aung San Suu Kyi51
  70. Steven Spielberg50
  71. Michael Schumacher27
  72. Angelina Jolie21
  73. Saddam Hussein59
  74. Benjamin Netanyahu47
  75. Tenzin Gyatso61
  76. Dmitry Medvedev31
  77. Anna Netrebko25
  78. Mark Zuckerberg12
  79. Silvio Berlusconi60
  80. Shinzō Abe42
  81. Tim Berners-Lee41
  82. Ingmar Bergman78
  83. Mahathir Mohamad71
  84. Boris Yeltsin65
  85. Ali Khamenei57
  86. Robin Williams45
  87. Jackie Chan42
  88. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn78
  89. Jacques Chirac64
  90. Guillermo Lasso41
  91. Céline Dion28
  92. Stanley Kubrick68
  93. Roger Federer15
  94. Lana Del Rey11
  95. Marlon Brando72
  96. Alexander Lukashenka42
  97. Woody Allen61
  98. Tony Blair43
  99. Rihanna8
  100. Neymar4
  101. Scarlett Johansson12
  102. Yasser Arafat67
  103. Rafael Nadal10
  104. Ban Ki-moon52
  105. Arnold Schwarzenegger49
  106. David Cameron30
  107. Linus Torvalds27
  108. Brigitte Bardot62
  109. Novak Djokovic9
  110. Hebe Camargo67
  111. Umberto Eco64
  112. Boris Johnson32
  113. Benazir Bhutto43
  114. Jair Bolsonaro41
  115. Diana, Princess of Wales35
  116. Bashar al-Assad31
  117. Paul McCartney54
  118. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva51
  119. Anggun22
  120. Leonardo DiCaprio22

The 120 best known of 841 are listed.