Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1884?

303 of the people we track were surely alive in 1884. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1884: Harry S. Truman and Eleanor Roosevelt.

Died in 1884: Gregor Mendel and Bedřich Smetana.

  1. Albert Einstein5
  2. Vladimir Lenin14
  3. Mahatma Gandhi15
  4. Leo Tolstoy56
  5. Joseph Stalin6
  6. Victor Hugo82
  7. Vincent van Gogh31
  8. Pablo Picasso3
  9. Winston Churchill10
  10. Friedrich Nietzsche40
  11. Thomas Edison37
  12. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk3–5
  13. Mark Twain49
  14. Sigmund Freud28
  15. Marie Curie17
  16. Rabindranath Tagore23
  17. Franklin Delano Roosevelt2
  18. Franz Kafka1
  19. Anton Chekhov24
  20. Oscar Wilde30
  21. Otto von Bismarck69
  22. Nikola Tesla28
  23. Louis Pasteur62
  24. James Joyce2
  25. Henry Ford21
  26. Benito Mussolini1
  27. Friedrich Engels64
  28. Harry S. Trumanborn
  29. Sarah Bernhardt40
  30. Alfred Nobel51
  31. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky44
  32. Theodore Roosevelt26
  33. Marcel Proust13
  34. Jules Verne56
  35. Woodrow Wilson28
  36. Rosa Luxemburg13
  37. Roald Amundsen12
  38. Rudyard Kipling19
  39. George Bernard Shaw28
  40. John Maynard Keynes1
  41. Bertrand Russell12
  42. Leon Trotsky5
  43. Max Planck26
  44. Arthur Conan Doyle25
  45. Maxim Gorky16
  46. Henri Matisse15
  47. Giuseppe Verdi71
  48. Dmitri Mendeleev50
  49. Frank Lloyd Wright17
  50. Virginia Woolf2
  51. Victoria65
  52. Ernest Rutherford13
  53. Max Weber20
  54. Henrik Ibsen56
  55. H. G. Wells18
  56. Helen Keller4
  57. Émile Zola44
  58. Igor Stravinsky2
  59. David Hilbert22
  60. Thomas Mann9
  61. Herbert Hoover10
  62. Hermann Hesse7
  63. Johannes Brahms51
  64. Anatole France40
  65. Alexander Graham Bell37
  66. Octave Mirbeau36
  67. Calvin Coolidge12
  68. Ulysses S. Grant62
  69. Kahlil Gibran1
  70. Lewis Carroll52
  71. Wilhelm Röntgen39
  72. Claude Monet44
  73. Guy de Maupassant34
  74. Selma Lagerlöf26
  75. Robert Louis Stevenson34
  76. William Butler Yeats19
  77. Sun Yat-sen18
  78. Carl Jung9
  79. Florence Nightingale64
  80. Antonín Dvořák43
  81. Gustav Mahler24
  82. Walt Whitman65
  83. Eleanor Rooseveltborn
  84. Emily Dickinson54
  85. William Howard Taft27
  86. Giacomo Puccini26
  87. Konrad Adenauer8
  88. Grover Cleveland47
  89. Jack London8
  90. Arthur Rimbaud30
  91. André Gide15
  92. William McKinley41
  93. L. L. Zamenhof25
  94. Warren G. Harding19
  95. Romain Rolland18
  96. Rutherford B. Hayes62
  97. Paul Cézanne45
  98. Henryk Sienkiewicz38
  99. Henri Bergson25
  100. Swami Vivekananda21
  101. Nicholas II of Russia16
  102. John XXIII3
  103. Benjamin Harrison51
  104. James Prescott Joule66
  105. Knut Hamsun25
  106. Alexander Fleming3
  107. Gregor Mendel61 †
  108. Luigi Pirandello17
  109. Rainer Maria Rilke9
  110. Paul Gauguin36
  111. Chester A. Arthur55
  112. Maurice Maeterlinck22
  113. Herman Melville65
  114. Auguste Rodin44
  115. Antoni Gaudí32
  116. Henri Poincaré30
  117. Pierre Curie25
  118. Claude Debussy22
  119. Wilhelm II25
  120. Guglielmo Marconi10

The 120 best known of 303 are listed.