Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1901?

394 of the people we track were surely alive in 1901. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1901: Walt Disney, Marlene Dietrich, Louis Armstrong, Enrico Fermi, Hirohito, Werner Heisenberg, Sukarno and Linus Pauling.

Died in 1901: Giuseppe Verdi, Victoria, William McKinley, Benjamin Harrison and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

  1. Adolf Hitler12
  2. Albert Einstein22
  3. Vladimir Lenin31
  4. Mahatma Gandhi32
  5. Leo Tolstoy73
  6. Joseph Stalin23
  7. Pablo Picasso20
  8. Winston Churchill27
  9. Charlie Chaplin12
  10. Thomas Edison54
  11. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk20–22
  12. Mark Twain66
  13. Sigmund Freud45
  14. Marie Curie34
  15. Rabindranath Tagore40
  16. Franklin Delano Roosevelt19
  17. Franz Kafka18
  18. Anton Chekhov41
  19. Mao Zedong8
  20. Charles de Gaulle11
  21. Nikola Tesla45
  22. Walt Disneyborn
  23. Ernest Hemingway2
  24. James Joyce19
  25. J. R. R. Tolkien9
  26. Henry Ford38
  27. Marlene Dietrichborn
  28. Benito Mussolini18
  29. Le Corbusier14
  30. Harry S. Truman17
  31. Agatha Christie11
  32. Jorge Luis Borges2
  33. Sarah Bernhardt57
  34. Theodore Roosevelt43
  35. Jawaharlal Nehru12
  36. Marcel Proust30
  37. Dwight D. Eisenhower11
  38. Jules Verne73
  39. Woodrow Wilson45
  40. Rosa Luxemburg30
  41. Roald Amundsen29
  42. Rudyard Kipling36
  43. Alfred Hitchcock2
  44. George Bernard Shaw45
  45. John Maynard Keynes18
  46. Niels Bohr16
  47. Bertrand Russell29
  48. Leon Trotsky22
  49. Max Planck43
  50. Arthur Conan Doyle42
  51. Maxim Gorky33
  52. Henri Matisse32
  53. Giuseppe Verdi87 †
  54. Dmitri Mendeleev67
  55. Frank Lloyd Wright34
  56. Louis Armstrongborn
  57. Virginia Woolf19
  58. Victoria81 †
  59. Ernest Rutherford30
  60. Ludwig Wittgenstein12
  61. Max Weber37
  62. Huang Xianfan2
  63. Enrico Fermiborn
  64. Henrik Ibsen73
  65. Nikita Khrushchev7
  66. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry1
  67. H. G. Wells35
  68. Helen Keller21
  69. Émile Zola61
  70. Igor Stravinsky19
  71. David Hilbert39
  72. Thomas Mann26
  73. Erwin Schrödinger14
  74. Herbert Hoover27
  75. Hermann Hesse24
  76. Anatole France57
  77. Alexander Graham Bell54
  78. Octave Mirbeau53
  79. Calvin Coolidge29
  80. T. S. Eliot13
  81. Kahlil Gibran18
  82. Wilhelm Röntgen56
  83. Hirohitoborn
  84. Claude Monet61
  85. Selma Lagerlöf43
  86. Bertolt Brecht3
  87. William Butler Yeats36
  88. Ho Chi Minh11
  89. Sun Yat-sen35
  90. Carl Jung26
  91. Florence Nightingale81
  92. Antonín Dvořák60
  93. Gustav Mahler41
  94. Vladimir Nabokov2
  95. Eleanor Roosevelt17
  96. B. R. Ambedkar10
  97. Martin Heidegger12
  98. William Howard Taft44
  99. Giacomo Puccini43
  100. Konrad Adenauer25
  101. William Faulkner4
  102. Sergei Eisenstein3
  103. Grover Cleveland64
  104. Jack London25
  105. André Gide32
  106. Aldous Huxley7
  107. Federico García Lorca3
  108. William McKinley58 †
  109. Pearl S. Buck9
  110. L. L. Zamenhof42
  111. Warren G. Harding36
  112. Boris Pasternak11
  113. Romain Rolland35
  114. Joseph Goebbels4
  115. Werner Heisenbergborn
  116. Paul Cézanne62
  117. Henryk Sienkiewicz55
  118. Henri Bergson42
  119. Chiang Kai-shek14
  120. Swami Vivekananda38

The 120 best known of 394 are listed.