Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 2019?

665 of the people we track were surely alive in 2019. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Died in 2019: Jacques Chirac, Robert Mugabe, Toni Morrison, Mohamed Morsi, Doris Day, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, I. M. Pei and Murray Gell-Mann.

  1. Barack Obama58
  2. Donald Trump73
  3. Vladimir Putin67
  4. George W. Bush73
  5. Joe Biden77
  6. Elizabeth II93
  7. Bill Gates64
  8. Jimmy Wales53
  9. Pope Francis83
  10. Shakira42
  11. Lionel Messi32
  12. Corbin Bleu30
  13. Bill Clinton73
  14. Basshunter35
  15. Angela Merkel65
  16. François Hollande65
  17. Cristiano Ronaldo34
  18. Volodymyr Zelenskyy41
  19. Mikhail Gorbachev88
  20. Elon Musk48
  21. Jimmy Carter95
  22. Benedict XVI92
  23. Emmanuel Macron42
  24. Hillary Clinton72
  25. Lady Gaga33
  26. Nicolas Sarkozy64
  27. Madonna61
  28. Kamala Harris55
  29. Xi Jinping66
  30. Naruhito59
  31. Noam Chomsky91
  32. Bob Dylan78
  33. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan65
  34. Pelé79
  35. J. K. Rowling54
  36. Justin Bieber25
  37. Taylor Swift30
  38. Lech Wałęsa76
  39. Charles III71
  40. Kim Jong-un35
  41. Diego Maradona59
  42. Eminem47
  43. Beyoncé38
  44. Selena Gomez27
  45. Leo XIV64
  46. Narendra Modi69
  47. Rafael Correa56
  48. Aung San Suu Kyi74
  49. Steven Spielberg73
  50. Michael Schumacher50
  51. Angelina Jolie44
  52. Benjamin Netanyahu70
  53. Tenzin Gyatso84
  54. Dmitry Medvedev54
  55. Anna Netrebko48
  56. Mark Zuckerberg35
  57. Silvio Berlusconi83
  58. Shinzō Abe65
  59. Tim Berners-Lee64
  60. Mahathir Mohamad94
  61. Ali Khamenei80
  62. Jackie Chan65
  63. Jacques Chirac86 †
  64. Guillermo Lasso64
  65. Céline Dion51
  66. Roger Federer38
  67. Lana Del Rey34
  68. Alexander Lukashenka65
  69. Woody Allen84
  70. Tony Blair66
  71. Rihanna31
  72. Neymar27
  73. Malala Yousafzai22
  74. Scarlett Johansson35
  75. Rafael Nadal33
  76. Greta Thunberg16
  77. Ban Ki-moon75
  78. Arnold Schwarzenegger72
  79. David Cameron53
  80. Linus Torvalds50
  81. Brigitte Bardot85
  82. Novak Djokovic32
  83. Boris Johnson55
  84. Jair Bolsonaro64
  85. Bashar al-Assad54
  86. Paul McCartney77
  87. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva74
  88. Anggun45
  89. Leonardo DiCaprio45
  90. Agnez Mo33
  91. Stephen King72
  92. Theresa May63
  93. Johnny Depp56
  94. Brad Pitt56
  95. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad63
  96. Britney Spears38
  97. Sean Connery89
  98. Zinedine Zidane47
  99. Henry Kissinger96
  100. Emma Watson29
  101. Nicolás Maduro57
  102. Justin Trudeau48
  103. Rishi Sunak39
  104. Miley Cyrus27
  105. Ariana Grande26
  106. Warren Buffett89
  107. Bernie Sanders78
  108. Richard Stallman66
  109. Robert Mugabe95 †
  110. Alain Delon84
  111. Robert De Niro76
  112. Michael Jordan56
  113. David Beckham44
  114. Avril Lavigne35
  115. Hosni Mubarak91
  116. Dilma Rousseff72
  117. Orhan Pamuk67
  118. Michelle Obama55
  119. Julian Assange48
  120. Richard Dawkins78

The 120 best known of 665 are listed.