Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 2016?

706 of the people we track were surely alive in 2016. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Died in 2016: Fidel Castro, Muhammad Ali, Umberto Eco, Bhumibol Adulyadej, David Bowie, Leonard Cohen, Shimon Peres and Johan Cruyff.

  1. Barack Obama55
  2. Donald Trump70
  3. Vladimir Putin64
  4. George W. Bush70
  5. Joe Biden74
  6. Elizabeth II90
  7. Bill Gates61
  8. Jimmy Wales50
  9. Pope Francis80
  10. Shakira39
  11. Lionel Messi29
  12. Corbin Bleu27
  13. Bill Clinton70
  14. Basshunter32
  15. Angela Merkel62
  16. François Hollande62
  17. Cristiano Ronaldo31
  18. Volodymyr Zelenskyy38
  19. Fidel Castro90 †
  20. Mikhail Gorbachev85
  21. Stephen Hawking74
  22. Elon Musk45
  23. Jimmy Carter92
  24. Benedict XVI89
  25. Emmanuel Macron39
  26. Hillary Clinton69
  27. Lady Gaga30
  28. George H. W. Bush92
  29. Nicolas Sarkozy61
  30. Madonna58
  31. Kamala Harris52
  32. Xi Jinping63
  33. Naruhito56
  34. Noam Chomsky88
  35. Bob Dylan75
  36. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan62
  37. Pelé76
  38. Muhammad Ali74 †
  39. J. K. Rowling51
  40. Justin Bieber22
  41. Kofi Annan78
  42. Taylor Swift27
  43. Lech Wałęsa73
  44. Charles III68
  45. Kim Jong-un32
  46. Diego Maradona56
  47. Eminem44
  48. Beyoncé35
  49. Selena Gomez24
  50. Leo XIV61
  51. Narendra Modi66
  52. Rafael Correa53
  53. Aung San Suu Kyi71
  54. Steven Spielberg70
  55. Michael Schumacher47
  56. Angelina Jolie41
  57. Benjamin Netanyahu67
  58. Tenzin Gyatso81
  59. Dmitry Medvedev51
  60. Anna Netrebko45
  61. Mark Zuckerberg32
  62. Silvio Berlusconi80
  63. Shinzō Abe62
  64. Tim Berners-Lee61
  65. Mahathir Mohamad91
  66. Ali Khamenei77
  67. Jackie Chan62
  68. Jacques Chirac84
  69. Guillermo Lasso61
  70. Céline Dion48
  71. Roger Federer35
  72. Lana Del Rey31
  73. Alexander Lukashenka62
  74. Woody Allen81
  75. Tony Blair63
  76. Rihanna28
  77. Neymar24
  78. Malala Yousafzai19
  79. Scarlett Johansson32
  80. Rafael Nadal30
  81. Greta Thunberg13
  82. Ban Ki-moon72
  83. Arnold Schwarzenegger69
  84. David Cameron50
  85. Linus Torvalds47
  86. Brigitte Bardot82
  87. Novak Djokovic29
  88. Umberto Eco84 †
  89. Boris Johnson52
  90. Jair Bolsonaro61
  91. Bashar al-Assad51
  92. Paul McCartney74
  93. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva71
  94. Anggun42
  95. Leonardo DiCaprio42
  96. Agnez Mo30
  97. Stephen King69
  98. Theresa May60
  99. Johnny Depp53
  100. Brad Pitt53
  101. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad60
  102. Britney Spears35
  103. Sean Connery86
  104. Zinedine Zidane44
  105. Henry Kissinger93
  106. Bhumibol Adulyadej88 †
  107. Emma Watson26
  108. Nicolás Maduro54
  109. Justin Trudeau45
  110. Rishi Sunak36
  111. Miley Cyrus24
  112. Ariana Grande23
  113. Warren Buffett86
  114. Bernie Sanders75
  115. Richard Stallman63
  116. Robert Mugabe92
  117. Alain Delon81
  118. Robert De Niro73
  119. Michael Jordan53
  120. David Beckham41

The 120 best known of 706 are listed.