Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1900?

382 of the people we track were surely alive in 1900. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1900: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Heinrich Himmler, Erich Fromm, Wolfgang Pauli, Margaret Mitchell, Giorgos Seferis, Luis Buñuel and Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.

Died in 1900: Friedrich Nietzsche, Oscar Wilde and John Ruskin.

  1. Adolf Hitler11
  2. Albert Einstein21
  3. Vladimir Lenin30
  4. Mahatma Gandhi31
  5. Leo Tolstoy72
  6. Joseph Stalin22
  7. Pablo Picasso19
  8. Winston Churchill26
  9. Charlie Chaplin11
  10. Friedrich Nietzsche55 †
  11. Thomas Edison53
  12. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk19–21
  13. Mark Twain65
  14. Sigmund Freud44
  15. Marie Curie33
  16. Rabindranath Tagore39
  17. Franklin Delano Roosevelt18
  18. Franz Kafka17
  19. Anton Chekhov40
  20. Mao Zedong7
  21. Oscar Wilde46 †
  22. Charles de Gaulle10
  23. Nikola Tesla44
  24. Ernest Hemingway1
  25. James Joyce18
  26. J. R. R. Tolkien8
  27. Henry Ford37
  28. Benito Mussolini17
  29. Le Corbusier13
  30. Harry S. Truman16
  31. Agatha Christie10
  32. Jorge Luis Borges1
  33. Sarah Bernhardt56
  34. Theodore Roosevelt42
  35. Jawaharlal Nehru11
  36. Marcel Proust29
  37. Dwight D. Eisenhower10
  38. Jules Verne72
  39. Woodrow Wilson44
  40. Rosa Luxemburg29
  41. Roald Amundsen28
  42. Rudyard Kipling35
  43. Alfred Hitchcock1
  44. George Bernard Shaw44
  45. John Maynard Keynes17
  46. Niels Bohr15
  47. Bertrand Russell28
  48. Leon Trotsky21
  49. Max Planck42
  50. Arthur Conan Doyle41
  51. Maxim Gorky32
  52. Henri Matisse31
  53. Giuseppe Verdi87
  54. Dmitri Mendeleev66
  55. Frank Lloyd Wright33
  56. Virginia Woolf18
  57. Victoria81
  58. Ernest Rutherford29
  59. Ludwig Wittgenstein11
  60. Max Weber36
  61. Huang Xianfan1
  62. Henrik Ibsen72
  63. Nikita Khrushchev6
  64. Antoine de Saint-Exupéryborn
  65. H. G. Wells34
  66. Helen Keller20
  67. Émile Zola60
  68. Igor Stravinsky18
  69. David Hilbert38
  70. Thomas Mann25
  71. Erwin Schrödinger13
  72. Herbert Hoover26
  73. Hermann Hesse23
  74. Anatole France56
  75. Alexander Graham Bell53
  76. Octave Mirbeau52
  77. Calvin Coolidge28
  78. T. S. Eliot12
  79. Kahlil Gibran17
  80. Wilhelm Röntgen55
  81. Claude Monet60
  82. Selma Lagerlöf42
  83. Bertolt Brecht2
  84. William Butler Yeats35
  85. Ho Chi Minh10
  86. Sun Yat-sen34
  87. Carl Jung25
  88. Florence Nightingale80
  89. Antonín Dvořák59
  90. Gustav Mahler40
  91. Vladimir Nabokov1
  92. Eleanor Roosevelt16
  93. B. R. Ambedkar9
  94. Martin Heidegger11
  95. William Howard Taft43
  96. Giacomo Puccini42
  97. Konrad Adenauer24
  98. William Faulkner3
  99. Sergei Eisenstein2
  100. Grover Cleveland63
  101. Jack London24
  102. André Gide31
  103. Aldous Huxley6
  104. Federico García Lorca2
  105. William McKinley57
  106. Pearl S. Buck8
  107. L. L. Zamenhof41
  108. Warren G. Harding35
  109. Boris Pasternak10
  110. Romain Rolland34
  111. Joseph Goebbels3
  112. Paul Cézanne61
  113. Henryk Sienkiewicz54
  114. Henri Bergson41
  115. Chiang Kai-shek13
  116. Swami Vivekananda37
  117. Nicholas II of Russia32
  118. John XXIII19
  119. Benjamin Harrison67
  120. Golda Meir2

The 120 best known of 382 are listed.