Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1892?

345 of the people we track were surely alive in 1892. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1892: J. R. R. Tolkien, Pearl S. Buck, Francisco Franco, Josip Broz Tito, Ivo Andrić, Haile Selassie I, Louis de Broglie and Mary Pickford.

Died in 1892: Walt Whitman, Alfred Tennyson and Baháʼu'lláh.

  1. Adolf Hitler3
  2. Albert Einstein13
  3. Vladimir Lenin22
  4. Mahatma Gandhi23
  5. Leo Tolstoy64
  6. Joseph Stalin14
  7. Pablo Picasso11
  8. Winston Churchill18
  9. Charlie Chaplin3
  10. Friedrich Nietzsche48
  11. Thomas Edison45
  12. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk11–13
  13. Mark Twain57
  14. Sigmund Freud36
  15. Marie Curie25
  16. Rabindranath Tagore31
  17. Franklin Delano Roosevelt10
  18. Franz Kafka9
  19. Anton Chekhov32
  20. Oscar Wilde38
  21. Charles de Gaulle2
  22. Otto von Bismarck77
  23. Nikola Tesla36
  24. Louis Pasteur70
  25. James Joyce10
  26. J. R. R. Tolkienborn
  27. Henry Ford29
  28. Benito Mussolini9
  29. Friedrich Engels72
  30. Le Corbusier5
  31. Harry S. Truman8
  32. Agatha Christie2
  33. Sarah Bernhardt48
  34. Alfred Nobel59
  35. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky52
  36. Theodore Roosevelt34
  37. Jawaharlal Nehru3
  38. Marcel Proust21
  39. Dwight D. Eisenhower2
  40. Jules Verne64
  41. Woodrow Wilson36
  42. Rosa Luxemburg21
  43. Roald Amundsen20
  44. Rudyard Kipling27
  45. George Bernard Shaw36
  46. John Maynard Keynes9
  47. Niels Bohr7
  48. Bertrand Russell20
  49. Leon Trotsky13
  50. Max Planck34
  51. Arthur Conan Doyle33
  52. Maxim Gorky24
  53. Henri Matisse23
  54. Giuseppe Verdi79
  55. Dmitri Mendeleev58
  56. Frank Lloyd Wright25
  57. Virginia Woolf10
  58. Victoria73
  59. Ernest Rutherford21
  60. Ludwig Wittgenstein3
  61. Max Weber28
  62. Henrik Ibsen64
  63. H. G. Wells26
  64. Helen Keller12
  65. Émile Zola52
  66. Igor Stravinsky10
  67. David Hilbert30
  68. Thomas Mann17
  69. Erwin Schrödinger5
  70. Herbert Hoover18
  71. Hermann Hesse15
  72. Johannes Brahms59
  73. Anatole France48
  74. Alexander Graham Bell45
  75. Octave Mirbeau44
  76. Calvin Coolidge20
  77. T. S. Eliot4
  78. Kahlil Gibran9
  79. Lewis Carroll60
  80. Wilhelm Röntgen47
  81. Claude Monet52
  82. Guy de Maupassant42
  83. Selma Lagerlöf34
  84. Robert Louis Stevenson42
  85. William Butler Yeats27
  86. Ho Chi Minh2
  87. Sun Yat-sen26
  88. Carl Jung17
  89. Florence Nightingale72
  90. Antonín Dvořák51
  91. Gustav Mahler32
  92. Walt Whitman72 †
  93. Eleanor Roosevelt8
  94. B. R. Ambedkar1
  95. Martin Heidegger3
  96. William Howard Taft35
  97. Giacomo Puccini34
  98. Konrad Adenauer16
  99. Grover Cleveland55
  100. Jack London16
  101. André Gide23
  102. William McKinley49
  103. Pearl S. Buckborn
  104. L. L. Zamenhof33
  105. Warren G. Harding27
  106. Boris Pasternak2
  107. Romain Rolland26
  108. Rutherford B. Hayes70
  109. Paul Cézanne53
  110. Henryk Sienkiewicz46
  111. Henri Bergson33
  112. Chiang Kai-shek5
  113. Swami Vivekananda29
  114. Nicholas II of Russia24
  115. John XXIII11
  116. Benjamin Harrison59
  117. Knut Hamsun33
  118. Alexander Fleming11
  119. Luigi Pirandello25
  120. Rainer Maria Rilke17

The 120 best known of 345 are listed.