Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1897?

357 of the people we track were surely alive in 1897. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1897: William Faulkner, Joseph Goebbels, Amelia Earhart, Paul VI, Irène Joliot-Curie, Anthony Eden, Ludwig Erhard and Enid Blyton.

Died in 1897: Johannes Brahms and Alphonse Daudet.

  1. Adolf Hitler8
  2. Albert Einstein18
  3. Vladimir Lenin27
  4. Mahatma Gandhi28
  5. Leo Tolstoy69
  6. Joseph Stalin19
  7. Pablo Picasso16
  8. Winston Churchill23
  9. Charlie Chaplin8
  10. Friedrich Nietzsche53
  11. Thomas Edison50
  12. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk16–18
  13. Mark Twain62
  14. Sigmund Freud41
  15. Marie Curie30
  16. Rabindranath Tagore36
  17. Franklin Delano Roosevelt15
  18. Franz Kafka14
  19. Anton Chekhov37
  20. Mao Zedong4
  21. Oscar Wilde43
  22. Charles de Gaulle7
  23. Otto von Bismarck82
  24. Nikola Tesla41
  25. James Joyce15
  26. J. R. R. Tolkien5
  27. Henry Ford34
  28. Benito Mussolini14
  29. Le Corbusier10
  30. Harry S. Truman13
  31. Agatha Christie7
  32. Sarah Bernhardt53
  33. Theodore Roosevelt39
  34. Jawaharlal Nehru8
  35. Marcel Proust26
  36. Dwight D. Eisenhower7
  37. Jules Verne69
  38. Woodrow Wilson41
  39. Rosa Luxemburg26
  40. Roald Amundsen25
  41. Rudyard Kipling32
  42. George Bernard Shaw41
  43. John Maynard Keynes14
  44. Niels Bohr12
  45. Bertrand Russell25
  46. Leon Trotsky18
  47. Max Planck39
  48. Arthur Conan Doyle38
  49. Maxim Gorky29
  50. Henri Matisse28
  51. Giuseppe Verdi84
  52. Dmitri Mendeleev63
  53. Frank Lloyd Wright30
  54. Virginia Woolf15
  55. Victoria78
  56. Ernest Rutherford26
  57. Ludwig Wittgenstein8
  58. Max Weber33
  59. Henrik Ibsen69
  60. Nikita Khrushchev3
  61. H. G. Wells31
  62. Helen Keller17
  63. Émile Zola57
  64. Igor Stravinsky15
  65. David Hilbert35
  66. Thomas Mann22
  67. Erwin Schrödinger10
  68. Herbert Hoover23
  69. Hermann Hesse20
  70. Johannes Brahms63 †
  71. Anatole France53
  72. Alexander Graham Bell50
  73. Octave Mirbeau49
  74. Calvin Coolidge25
  75. T. S. Eliot9
  76. Kahlil Gibran14
  77. Lewis Carroll65
  78. Wilhelm Röntgen52
  79. Claude Monet57
  80. Selma Lagerlöf39
  81. William Butler Yeats32
  82. Ho Chi Minh7
  83. Sun Yat-sen31
  84. Carl Jung22
  85. Florence Nightingale77
  86. Antonín Dvořák56
  87. Gustav Mahler37
  88. Eleanor Roosevelt13
  89. B. R. Ambedkar6
  90. Martin Heidegger8
  91. William Howard Taft40
  92. Giacomo Puccini39
  93. Konrad Adenauer21
  94. William Faulknerborn
  95. Grover Cleveland60
  96. Jack London21
  97. André Gide28
  98. Aldous Huxley3
  99. William McKinley54
  100. Pearl S. Buck5
  101. L. L. Zamenhof38
  102. Warren G. Harding32
  103. Boris Pasternak7
  104. Romain Rolland31
  105. Joseph Goebbelsborn
  106. Paul Cézanne58
  107. Henryk Sienkiewicz51
  108. Henri Bergson38
  109. Chiang Kai-shek10
  110. Swami Vivekananda34
  111. Nicholas II of Russia29
  112. John XXIII16
  113. Benjamin Harrison64
  114. Knut Hamsun38
  115. Alexander Fleming16
  116. Luigi Pirandello30
  117. Rainer Maria Rilke22
  118. David Ben-Gurion11
  119. Francisco Franco5
  120. Paul Gauguin49

The 120 best known of 357 are listed.