Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1999?

826 of the people we track were surely alive in 1999. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Died in 1999: Stanley Kubrick, Anatoliy Solovyanenko and Julius Nyerere.

  1. Barack Obama38
  2. Donald Trump53
  3. Michael Jackson41
  4. Vladimir Putin47
  5. Ronald Reagan88
  6. Nelson Mandela81
  7. George W. Bush53
  8. Joe Biden57
  9. Elizabeth II73
  10. Bill Gates44
  11. Jimmy Wales33
  12. Pope Francis63
  13. Shakira22
  14. Steve Jobs44
  15. Lionel Messi12
  16. Corbin Bleu10
  17. Bill Clinton53
  18. Basshunter15
  19. Angela Merkel45
  20. Neil Armstrong69
  21. François Hollande45
  22. Cristiano Ronaldo14
  23. Volodymyr Zelenskyy21
  24. Margaret Thatcher74
  25. John Paul II79
  26. Gabriel García Márquez72
  27. Fidel Castro73
  28. Mikhail Gorbachev68
  29. Stephen Hawking57
  30. Elon Musk28
  31. Jimmy Carter75
  32. Benedict XVI72
  33. Emmanuel Macron22
  34. Hillary Clinton52
  35. Lady Gaga13
  36. George H. W. Bush75
  37. Nicolas Sarkozy44
  38. Madonna41
  39. Kamala Harris35
  40. Xi Jinping46
  41. Naruhito39
  42. Noam Chomsky71
  43. Hugo Chávez45
  44. Muammar Gaddafi57
  45. Sung Jae-gi32
  46. Bob Dylan58
  47. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan45
  48. Pelé59
  49. Muhammad Ali57
  50. J. K. Rowling34
  51. Justin Bieber5
  52. Kofi Annan61
  53. Taylor Swift10
  54. Osama bin Laden42
  55. Lech Wałęsa56
  56. Charles III51
  57. Kim Jong-un15
  58. Gerald Ford86
  59. Diego Maradona39
  60. Eminem27
  61. Beyoncé18
  62. Selena Gomez7
  63. Leo XIV44
  64. Narendra Modi49
  65. Rafael Correa36
  66. Naguib Mahfouz88
  67. Aung San Suu Kyi54
  68. Steven Spielberg53
  69. Michael Schumacher30
  70. Angelina Jolie24
  71. Saddam Hussein62
  72. Benjamin Netanyahu50
  73. Tenzin Gyatso64
  74. Dmitry Medvedev34
  75. Anna Netrebko28
  76. Mark Zuckerberg15
  77. Silvio Berlusconi63
  78. Shinzō Abe45
  79. Tim Berners-Lee44
  80. Ingmar Bergman81
  81. Mahathir Mohamad74
  82. Boris Yeltsin68
  83. Ali Khamenei60
  84. Robin Williams48
  85. Jackie Chan45
  86. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn81
  87. Jacques Chirac67
  88. Guillermo Lasso44
  89. Céline Dion31
  90. Stanley Kubrick70 †
  91. Roger Federer18
  92. Lana Del Rey14
  93. Marlon Brando75
  94. Alexander Lukashenka45
  95. Woody Allen64
  96. Tony Blair46
  97. Rihanna11
  98. Neymar7
  99. Malala Yousafzai2
  100. Scarlett Johansson15
  101. Yasser Arafat70
  102. Rafael Nadal13
  103. Ban Ki-moon55
  104. Arnold Schwarzenegger52
  105. David Cameron33
  106. Linus Torvalds30
  107. Brigitte Bardot65
  108. Novak Djokovic12
  109. Hebe Camargo70
  110. Umberto Eco67
  111. Boris Johnson35
  112. Benazir Bhutto46
  113. Jair Bolsonaro44
  114. Bashar al-Assad34
  115. Paul McCartney57
  116. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva54
  117. Anggun25
  118. Leonardo DiCaprio25
  119. Agnez Mo13
  120. Stephen King52

The 120 best known of 826 are listed.