Fetch famous people from Wikipedia API

Question

I\'m trying to fetch people who are still alive from Wikipedia API but I haven\'t figured out how to do it.

I found this question which is the same as mine and as far as

Answer 1

Please look at the following query:

SELECT distinct ?item ?itemLabel ?itemDescription (SAMPLE(?DR) as ?DR) (SAMPLE(?RIP) as ?RIP) (SAMPLE(?image)as ?image) (SAMPLE(?article)as ?article) WHERE {
  ?item wdt:P31 wd:Q5.
  ?item ?label "Ronaldo"@en.  
  ?article schema:about ?item .
  ?article schema:inLanguage "en" .
  ?article schema:isPartOf .  
  OPTIONAL{?item wdt:P569 ?DR .} # P569 : Date of birth
  OPTIONAL{?item wdt:P570 ?RIP .}     # P570 : Date of death
  OPTIONAL{?item wdt:P18 ?image .}     # P18 : image  

  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en". }    
}
GROUP BY ?item ?itemLabel ?itemDescription

Query on Wikidata.

You can add Filter on death date to see only alive people.