Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1905?

408 of the people we track were surely alive in 1905. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1905: Jean-Paul Sartre, Ayn Rand, Dag Hammarskjöld, Mikhail Sholokhov, Greta Garbo, Elias Canetti and Henry Fonda.

Died in 1905: Jules Verne.

  1. Adolf Hitler16
  2. Albert Einstein26
  3. Vladimir Lenin35
  4. Mahatma Gandhi36
  5. Leo Tolstoy77
  6. Joseph Stalin27
  7. Pablo Picasso24
  8. Winston Churchill31
  9. Charlie Chaplin16
  10. Thomas Edison58
  11. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk24–26
  12. Mark Twain70
  13. Sigmund Freud49
  14. Marie Curie38
  15. Salvador Dalí1
  16. Rabindranath Tagore44
  17. Franklin Delano Roosevelt23
  18. Franz Kafka22
  19. Mao Zedong12
  20. Charles de Gaulle15
  21. Nikola Tesla49
  22. Walt Disney4
  23. George Orwell2
  24. Ernest Hemingway6
  25. James Joyce23
  26. J. R. R. Tolkien13
  27. Henry Ford42
  28. Marlene Dietrich4
  29. Benito Mussolini22
  30. Jean-Paul Sartreborn
  31. Le Corbusier18
  32. Harry S. Truman21
  33. Agatha Christie15
  34. Jorge Luis Borges6
  35. Sarah Bernhardt61
  36. Theodore Roosevelt47
  37. Jawaharlal Nehru16
  38. Marcel Proust34
  39. Dwight D. Eisenhower15
  40. Jules Verne77 †
  41. Woodrow Wilson49
  42. Rosa Luxemburg34
  43. Roald Amundsen33
  44. Rudyard Kipling40
  45. Alfred Hitchcock6
  46. George Bernard Shaw49
  47. John Maynard Keynes22
  48. Niels Bohr20
  49. Bertrand Russell33
  50. Leon Trotsky26
  51. Max Planck47
  52. Arthur Conan Doyle46
  53. Maxim Gorky37
  54. Henri Matisse36
  55. Dmitri Mendeleev71
  56. Frank Lloyd Wright38
  57. Louis Armstrong4
  58. Virginia Woolf23
  59. Ernest Rutherford34
  60. Ludwig Wittgenstein16
  61. Max Weber41
  62. Huang Xianfan6
  63. Enrico Fermi4
  64. Henrik Ibsen77
  65. Nikita Khrushchev11
  66. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry5
  67. H. G. Wells39
  68. Helen Keller25
  69. Pablo Neruda1
  70. Igor Stravinsky23
  71. David Hilbert43
  72. Thomas Mann30
  73. Erwin Schrödinger18
  74. Herbert Hoover31
  75. Hermann Hesse28
  76. Anatole France61
  77. Alexander Graham Bell58
  78. Octave Mirbeau57
  79. Calvin Coolidge33
  80. T. S. Eliot17
  81. Kahlil Gibran22
  82. Wilhelm Röntgen60
  83. Hirohito4
  84. Claude Monet65
  85. Selma Lagerlöf47
  86. Bertolt Brecht7
  87. William Butler Yeats40
  88. Ho Chi Minh15
  89. Sun Yat-sen39
  90. Carl Jung30
  91. Florence Nightingale85
  92. Gustav Mahler45
  93. Vladimir Nabokov6
  94. Eleanor Roosevelt21
  95. B. R. Ambedkar14
  96. Martin Heidegger16
  97. John Steinbeck3
  98. William Howard Taft48
  99. Giacomo Puccini47
  100. Konrad Adenauer29
  101. William Faulkner8
  102. Sergei Eisenstein7
  103. Grover Cleveland68
  104. Jack London29
  105. André Gide36
  106. Aldous Huxley11
  107. Federico García Lorca7
  108. Pearl S. Buck13
  109. L. L. Zamenhof46
  110. Warren G. Harding40
  111. Boris Pasternak15
  112. Romain Rolland39
  113. Joseph Goebbels8
  114. Werner Heisenberg4
  115. Paul Cézanne66
  116. Henryk Sienkiewicz59
  117. Henri Bergson46
  118. Chiang Kai-shek18
  119. Nicholas II of Russia37
  120. John XXIII24

The 120 best known of 408 are listed.