Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1898?

365 of the people we track were surely alive in 1898. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1898: Bertolt Brecht, Sergei Eisenstein, Federico García Lorca, Golda Meir, C. S. Lewis, Erich Maria Remarque, Stefania Turkevych-Lukiianovych and Zhou Enlai.

Died in 1898: Otto von Bismarck, Lewis Carroll and William Ewart Gladstone.

  1. Adolf Hitler9
  2. Albert Einstein19
  3. Vladimir Lenin28
  4. Mahatma Gandhi29
  5. Leo Tolstoy70
  6. Joseph Stalin20
  7. Pablo Picasso17
  8. Winston Churchill24
  9. Charlie Chaplin9
  10. Friedrich Nietzsche54
  11. Thomas Edison51
  12. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk17–19
  13. Mark Twain63
  14. Sigmund Freud42
  15. Marie Curie31
  16. Rabindranath Tagore37
  17. Franklin Delano Roosevelt16
  18. Franz Kafka15
  19. Anton Chekhov38
  20. Mao Zedong5
  21. Oscar Wilde44
  22. Charles de Gaulle8
  23. Otto von Bismarck83 †
  24. Nikola Tesla42
  25. James Joyce16
  26. J. R. R. Tolkien6
  27. Henry Ford35
  28. Benito Mussolini15
  29. Le Corbusier11
  30. Harry S. Truman14
  31. Agatha Christie8
  32. Sarah Bernhardt54
  33. Theodore Roosevelt40
  34. Jawaharlal Nehru9
  35. Marcel Proust27
  36. Dwight D. Eisenhower8
  37. Jules Verne70
  38. Woodrow Wilson42
  39. Rosa Luxemburg27
  40. Roald Amundsen26
  41. Rudyard Kipling33
  42. George Bernard Shaw42
  43. John Maynard Keynes15
  44. Niels Bohr13
  45. Bertrand Russell26
  46. Leon Trotsky19
  47. Max Planck40
  48. Arthur Conan Doyle39
  49. Maxim Gorky30
  50. Henri Matisse29
  51. Giuseppe Verdi85
  52. Dmitri Mendeleev64
  53. Frank Lloyd Wright31
  54. Virginia Woolf16
  55. Victoria79
  56. Ernest Rutherford27
  57. Ludwig Wittgenstein9
  58. Max Weber34
  59. Henrik Ibsen70
  60. Nikita Khrushchev4
  61. H. G. Wells32
  62. Helen Keller18
  63. Émile Zola58
  64. Igor Stravinsky16
  65. David Hilbert36
  66. Thomas Mann23
  67. Erwin Schrödinger11
  68. Herbert Hoover24
  69. Hermann Hesse21
  70. Anatole France54
  71. Alexander Graham Bell51
  72. Octave Mirbeau50
  73. Calvin Coolidge26
  74. T. S. Eliot10
  75. Kahlil Gibran15
  76. Lewis Carroll65 †
  77. Wilhelm Röntgen53
  78. Claude Monet58
  79. Selma Lagerlöf40
  80. Bertolt Brechtborn
  81. William Butler Yeats33
  82. Ho Chi Minh8
  83. Sun Yat-sen32
  84. Carl Jung23
  85. Florence Nightingale78
  86. Antonín Dvořák57
  87. Gustav Mahler38
  88. Eleanor Roosevelt14
  89. B. R. Ambedkar7
  90. Martin Heidegger9
  91. William Howard Taft41
  92. Giacomo Puccini40
  93. Konrad Adenauer22
  94. William Faulkner1
  95. Sergei Eisensteinborn
  96. Grover Cleveland61
  97. Jack London22
  98. André Gide29
  99. Aldous Huxley4
  100. Federico García Lorcaborn
  101. William McKinley55
  102. Pearl S. Buck6
  103. L. L. Zamenhof39
  104. Warren G. Harding33
  105. Boris Pasternak8
  106. Romain Rolland32
  107. Joseph Goebbels1
  108. Paul Cézanne59
  109. Henryk Sienkiewicz52
  110. Henri Bergson39
  111. Chiang Kai-shek11
  112. Swami Vivekananda35
  113. Nicholas II of Russia30
  114. John XXIII17
  115. Benjamin Harrison65
  116. Golda Meirborn
  117. Knut Hamsun39
  118. Alexander Fleming17
  119. Luigi Pirandello31
  120. Rainer Maria Rilke23

The 120 best known of 365 are listed.