Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1903?

401 of the people we track were surely alive in 1903. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1903: George Orwell, Bing Crosby, John von Neumann, Theodor W. Adorno, Konrad Lorenz, Marguerite Yourcenar and Anaïs Nin.

Died in 1903: Paul Gauguin, Theodor Mommsen, Herbert Spencer and Leo XIII.

  1. Adolf Hitler14
  2. Albert Einstein24
  3. Vladimir Lenin33
  4. Mahatma Gandhi34
  5. Leo Tolstoy75
  6. Joseph Stalin25
  7. Pablo Picasso22
  8. Winston Churchill29
  9. Charlie Chaplin14
  10. Thomas Edison56
  11. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk22–24
  12. Mark Twain68
  13. Sigmund Freud47
  14. Marie Curie36
  15. Rabindranath Tagore42
  16. Franklin Delano Roosevelt21
  17. Franz Kafka20
  18. Anton Chekhov43
  19. Mao Zedong10
  20. Charles de Gaulle13
  21. Nikola Tesla47
  22. Walt Disney2
  23. George Orwellborn
  24. Ernest Hemingway4
  25. James Joyce21
  26. J. R. R. Tolkien11
  27. Henry Ford40
  28. Marlene Dietrich2
  29. Benito Mussolini20
  30. Le Corbusier16
  31. Harry S. Truman19
  32. Agatha Christie13
  33. Jorge Luis Borges4
  34. Sarah Bernhardt59
  35. Theodore Roosevelt45
  36. Jawaharlal Nehru14
  37. Marcel Proust32
  38. Dwight D. Eisenhower13
  39. Jules Verne75
  40. Woodrow Wilson47
  41. Rosa Luxemburg32
  42. Roald Amundsen31
  43. Rudyard Kipling38
  44. Alfred Hitchcock4
  45. George Bernard Shaw47
  46. John Maynard Keynes20
  47. Niels Bohr18
  48. Bertrand Russell31
  49. Leon Trotsky24
  50. Max Planck45
  51. Arthur Conan Doyle44
  52. Maxim Gorky35
  53. Henri Matisse34
  54. Dmitri Mendeleev69
  55. Frank Lloyd Wright36
  56. Louis Armstrong2
  57. Virginia Woolf21
  58. Ernest Rutherford32
  59. Ludwig Wittgenstein14
  60. Max Weber39
  61. Huang Xianfan4
  62. Enrico Fermi2
  63. Henrik Ibsen75
  64. Nikita Khrushchev9
  65. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry3
  66. H. G. Wells37
  67. Helen Keller23
  68. Igor Stravinsky21
  69. David Hilbert41
  70. Thomas Mann28
  71. Erwin Schrödinger16
  72. Herbert Hoover29
  73. Hermann Hesse26
  74. Anatole France59
  75. Alexander Graham Bell56
  76. Octave Mirbeau55
  77. Calvin Coolidge31
  78. T. S. Eliot15
  79. Kahlil Gibran20
  80. Wilhelm Röntgen58
  81. Hirohito2
  82. Claude Monet63
  83. Selma Lagerlöf45
  84. Bertolt Brecht5
  85. William Butler Yeats38
  86. Ho Chi Minh13
  87. Sun Yat-sen37
  88. Carl Jung28
  89. Florence Nightingale83
  90. Antonín Dvořák62
  91. Gustav Mahler43
  92. Vladimir Nabokov4
  93. Eleanor Roosevelt19
  94. B. R. Ambedkar12
  95. Martin Heidegger14
  96. John Steinbeck1
  97. William Howard Taft46
  98. Giacomo Puccini45
  99. Konrad Adenauer27
  100. William Faulkner6
  101. Sergei Eisenstein5
  102. Grover Cleveland66
  103. Jack London27
  104. André Gide34
  105. Aldous Huxley9
  106. Federico García Lorca5
  107. Pearl S. Buck11
  108. L. L. Zamenhof44
  109. Warren G. Harding38
  110. Boris Pasternak13
  111. Romain Rolland37
  112. Joseph Goebbels6
  113. Werner Heisenberg2
  114. Paul Cézanne64
  115. Henryk Sienkiewicz57
  116. Henri Bergson44
  117. Chiang Kai-shek16
  118. Nicholas II of Russia35
  119. John XXIII22
  120. Golda Meir5

The 120 best known of 401 are listed.