Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1896?

352 of the people we track were surely alive in 1896. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1896: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Georgy Zhukov, Jean Piaget and Eugenio Montale.

Died in 1896: Alfred Nobel, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Paul Verlaine and Anton Bruckner.

  1. Adolf Hitler7
  2. Albert Einstein17
  3. Vladimir Lenin26
  4. Mahatma Gandhi27
  5. Leo Tolstoy68
  6. Joseph Stalin18
  7. Pablo Picasso15
  8. Winston Churchill22
  9. Charlie Chaplin7
  10. Friedrich Nietzsche52
  11. Thomas Edison49
  12. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk15–17
  13. Mark Twain61
  14. Sigmund Freud40
  15. Marie Curie29
  16. Rabindranath Tagore35
  17. Franklin Delano Roosevelt14
  18. Franz Kafka13
  19. Anton Chekhov36
  20. Mao Zedong3
  21. Oscar Wilde42
  22. Charles de Gaulle6
  23. Otto von Bismarck81
  24. Nikola Tesla40
  25. James Joyce14
  26. J. R. R. Tolkien4
  27. Henry Ford33
  28. Benito Mussolini13
  29. Le Corbusier9
  30. Harry S. Truman12
  31. Agatha Christie6
  32. Sarah Bernhardt52
  33. Alfred Nobel63 †
  34. Theodore Roosevelt38
  35. Jawaharlal Nehru7
  36. Marcel Proust25
  37. Dwight D. Eisenhower6
  38. Jules Verne68
  39. Woodrow Wilson40
  40. Rosa Luxemburg25
  41. Roald Amundsen24
  42. Rudyard Kipling31
  43. George Bernard Shaw40
  44. John Maynard Keynes13
  45. Niels Bohr11
  46. Bertrand Russell24
  47. Leon Trotsky17
  48. Max Planck38
  49. Arthur Conan Doyle37
  50. Maxim Gorky28
  51. Henri Matisse27
  52. Giuseppe Verdi83
  53. Dmitri Mendeleev62
  54. Frank Lloyd Wright29
  55. Virginia Woolf14
  56. Victoria77
  57. Ernest Rutherford25
  58. Ludwig Wittgenstein7
  59. Max Weber32
  60. Henrik Ibsen68
  61. Nikita Khrushchev2
  62. H. G. Wells30
  63. Helen Keller16
  64. Émile Zola56
  65. Igor Stravinsky14
  66. David Hilbert34
  67. Thomas Mann21
  68. Erwin Schrödinger9
  69. Herbert Hoover22
  70. Hermann Hesse19
  71. Johannes Brahms63
  72. Anatole France52
  73. Alexander Graham Bell49
  74. Octave Mirbeau48
  75. Calvin Coolidge24
  76. T. S. Eliot8
  77. Kahlil Gibran13
  78. Lewis Carroll64
  79. Wilhelm Röntgen51
  80. Claude Monet56
  81. Selma Lagerlöf38
  82. William Butler Yeats31
  83. Ho Chi Minh6
  84. Sun Yat-sen30
  85. Carl Jung21
  86. Florence Nightingale76
  87. Antonín Dvořák55
  88. Gustav Mahler36
  89. Eleanor Roosevelt12
  90. B. R. Ambedkar5
  91. Martin Heidegger7
  92. William Howard Taft39
  93. Giacomo Puccini38
  94. Konrad Adenauer20
  95. Grover Cleveland59
  96. Jack London20
  97. André Gide27
  98. Aldous Huxley2
  99. William McKinley53
  100. Pearl S. Buck4
  101. L. L. Zamenhof37
  102. Warren G. Harding31
  103. Boris Pasternak6
  104. Romain Rolland30
  105. Paul Cézanne57
  106. Henryk Sienkiewicz50
  107. Henri Bergson37
  108. Chiang Kai-shek9
  109. Swami Vivekananda33
  110. Nicholas II of Russia28
  111. John XXIII15
  112. Benjamin Harrison63
  113. Knut Hamsun37
  114. Alexander Fleming15
  115. Luigi Pirandello29
  116. Rainer Maria Rilke21
  117. David Ben-Gurion10
  118. Francisco Franco4
  119. Paul Gauguin48
  120. Maurice Maeterlinck34

The 120 best known of 352 are listed.