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

You can execute the following query here: https://query.wikidata.org/ in order to fetch the details you are interested in.

SELECT  DISTINCT ?id ?idLabel (SAMPLE(?birth) as ?birth_date) 
 (SAMPLE(?death_date) as ?dateOfDeath)  WHERE {
?id wdt:P31 wd:Q5.
?id wdt:P569 ?birth .
OPTIONAL{?id wdt:P570 ?death_date .}
SERVICE wikibase:label { 
bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en".
?id rdfs:label ?idLabel .
}?id ?label "Ronaldo"@en. 
}
GROUP BY ?id ?idLabel