Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1889?

323 of the people we track were surely alive in 1889. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1889: Adolf Hitler, Charlie Chaplin, Jawaharlal Nehru, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Martin Heidegger, Anna Akhmatova, Gabriela Mistral and Jean Cocteau.

Died in 1889: James Prescott Joule and Robert Browning.

  1. Adolf Hitlerborn
  2. Albert Einstein10
  3. Vladimir Lenin19
  4. Mahatma Gandhi20
  5. Leo Tolstoy61
  6. Joseph Stalin11
  7. Vincent van Gogh36
  8. Pablo Picasso8
  9. Winston Churchill15
  10. Charlie Chaplinborn
  11. Friedrich Nietzsche45
  12. Thomas Edison42
  13. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk8–10
  14. Mark Twain54
  15. Sigmund Freud33
  16. Marie Curie22
  17. Rabindranath Tagore28
  18. Franklin Delano Roosevelt7
  19. Franz Kafka6
  20. Anton Chekhov29
  21. Oscar Wilde35
  22. Otto von Bismarck74
  23. Nikola Tesla33
  24. Louis Pasteur67
  25. James Joyce7
  26. Henry Ford26
  27. Benito Mussolini6
  28. Friedrich Engels69
  29. Le Corbusier2
  30. Harry S. Truman5
  31. Sarah Bernhardt45
  32. Alfred Nobel56
  33. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky49
  34. Theodore Roosevelt31
  35. Jawaharlal Nehruborn
  36. Marcel Proust18
  37. Jules Verne61
  38. Woodrow Wilson33
  39. Rosa Luxemburg18
  40. Roald Amundsen17
  41. Rudyard Kipling24
  42. George Bernard Shaw33
  43. John Maynard Keynes6
  44. Niels Bohr4
  45. Bertrand Russell17
  46. Leon Trotsky10
  47. Max Planck31
  48. Arthur Conan Doyle30
  49. Maxim Gorky21
  50. Henri Matisse20
  51. Giuseppe Verdi76
  52. Dmitri Mendeleev55
  53. Frank Lloyd Wright22
  54. Virginia Woolf7
  55. Victoria70
  56. Ernest Rutherford18
  57. Ludwig Wittgensteinborn
  58. Max Weber25
  59. Henrik Ibsen61
  60. H. G. Wells23
  61. Helen Keller9
  62. Émile Zola49
  63. Igor Stravinsky7
  64. David Hilbert27
  65. Thomas Mann14
  66. Erwin Schrödinger2
  67. Herbert Hoover15
  68. Hermann Hesse12
  69. Johannes Brahms56
  70. Anatole France45
  71. Alexander Graham Bell42
  72. Octave Mirbeau41
  73. Calvin Coolidge17
  74. T. S. Eliot1
  75. Kahlil Gibran6
  76. Lewis Carroll57
  77. Wilhelm Röntgen44
  78. Claude Monet49
  79. Guy de Maupassant39
  80. Selma Lagerlöf31
  81. Robert Louis Stevenson39
  82. William Butler Yeats24
  83. Sun Yat-sen23
  84. Carl Jung14
  85. Florence Nightingale69
  86. Antonín Dvořák48
  87. Gustav Mahler29
  88. Walt Whitman70
  89. Eleanor Roosevelt5
  90. Martin Heideggerborn
  91. William Howard Taft32
  92. Giacomo Puccini31
  93. Konrad Adenauer13
  94. Grover Cleveland52
  95. Jack London13
  96. Arthur Rimbaud35
  97. André Gide20
  98. William McKinley46
  99. L. L. Zamenhof30
  100. Warren G. Harding24
  101. Romain Rolland23
  102. Rutherford B. Hayes67
  103. Paul Cézanne50
  104. Henryk Sienkiewicz43
  105. Henri Bergson30
  106. Chiang Kai-shek2
  107. Swami Vivekananda26
  108. Nicholas II of Russia21
  109. John XXIII8
  110. Benjamin Harrison56
  111. James Prescott Joule70 †
  112. Knut Hamsun30
  113. Alexander Fleming8
  114. Luigi Pirandello22
  115. Rainer Maria Rilke14
  116. David Ben-Gurion3
  117. Paul Gauguin41
  118. Maurice Maeterlinck27
  119. Herman Melville70
  120. Auguste Rodin49

The 120 best known of 323 are listed.