Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 2004?

810 of the people we track were surely alive in 2004. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Died in 2004: Ronald Reagan, Marlon Brando, Yasser Arafat, Czesław Miłosz, Ray Charles, Jacques Derrida, Francis Crick and Susan Sontag.

  1. Barack Obama43
  2. Donald Trump58
  3. Michael Jackson46
  4. Vladimir Putin52
  5. Ronald Reagan93 †
  6. Nelson Mandela86
  7. George W. Bush58
  8. Joe Biden62
  9. Elizabeth II78
  10. Bill Gates49
  11. Jimmy Wales38
  12. Pope Francis68
  13. Shakira27
  14. Steve Jobs49
  15. Lionel Messi17
  16. Corbin Bleu15
  17. Bill Clinton58
  18. Basshunter20
  19. Angela Merkel50
  20. Neil Armstrong74
  21. François Hollande50
  22. Cristiano Ronaldo19
  23. Volodymyr Zelenskyy26
  24. Margaret Thatcher79
  25. John Paul II84
  26. Gabriel García Márquez77
  27. Fidel Castro78
  28. Mikhail Gorbachev73
  29. Stephen Hawking62
  30. Elon Musk33
  31. Jimmy Carter80
  32. Benedict XVI77
  33. Emmanuel Macron27
  34. Hillary Clinton57
  35. Lady Gaga18
  36. George H. W. Bush80
  37. Nicolas Sarkozy49
  38. Madonna46
  39. Kamala Harris40
  40. Xi Jinping51
  41. Naruhito44
  42. Noam Chomsky76
  43. Hugo Chávez50
  44. Muammar Gaddafi62
  45. Sung Jae-gi37
  46. Bob Dylan63
  47. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan50
  48. Pelé64
  49. Muhammad Ali62
  50. J. K. Rowling39
  51. Justin Bieber10
  52. Kofi Annan66
  53. Taylor Swift15
  54. Osama bin Laden47
  55. Lech Wałęsa61
  56. Charles III56
  57. Kim Jong-un20
  58. Gerald Ford91
  59. Diego Maradona44
  60. Eminem32
  61. Beyoncé23
  62. Selena Gomez12
  63. Leo XIV49
  64. Narendra Modi54
  65. Rafael Correa41
  66. Naguib Mahfouz93
  67. Aung San Suu Kyi59
  68. Steven Spielberg58
  69. Michael Schumacher35
  70. Angelina Jolie29
  71. Saddam Hussein67
  72. Benjamin Netanyahu55
  73. Tenzin Gyatso69
  74. Dmitry Medvedev39
  75. Anna Netrebko33
  76. Mark Zuckerberg20
  77. Silvio Berlusconi68
  78. Shinzō Abe50
  79. Tim Berners-Lee49
  80. Ingmar Bergman86
  81. Mahathir Mohamad79
  82. Boris Yeltsin73
  83. Ali Khamenei65
  84. Robin Williams53
  85. Jackie Chan50
  86. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn86
  87. Jacques Chirac72
  88. Guillermo Lasso49
  89. Céline Dion36
  90. Roger Federer23
  91. Lana Del Rey19
  92. Marlon Brando80 †
  93. Alexander Lukashenka50
  94. Woody Allen69
  95. Tony Blair51
  96. Rihanna16
  97. Neymar12
  98. Malala Yousafzai7
  99. Scarlett Johansson20
  100. Yasser Arafat75 †
  101. Rafael Nadal18
  102. Greta Thunberg1
  103. Ban Ki-moon60
  104. Arnold Schwarzenegger57
  105. David Cameron38
  106. Linus Torvalds35
  107. Brigitte Bardot70
  108. Novak Djokovic17
  109. Hebe Camargo75
  110. Umberto Eco72
  111. Boris Johnson40
  112. Benazir Bhutto51
  113. Jair Bolsonaro49
  114. Bashar al-Assad39
  115. Paul McCartney62
  116. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva59
  117. Anggun30
  118. Leonardo DiCaprio30
  119. Agnez Mo18
  120. Stephen King57

The 120 best known of 810 are listed.