Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1908?

432 of the people we track were surely alive in 1908. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1908: Simone de Beauvoir, Lyndon B. Johnson, Salvador Allende, Bette Davis, Ian Fleming, Enver Hoxha, Lev Landau and Claude Lévi-Strauss.

Died in 1908: Grover Cleveland, Antoine Henri Becquerel, Empress Dowager Cixi and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.

  1. Adolf Hitler19
  2. Albert Einstein29
  3. Vladimir Lenin38
  4. Mahatma Gandhi39
  5. Leo Tolstoy80
  6. Joseph Stalin30
  7. Pablo Picasso27
  8. Winston Churchill34
  9. Charlie Chaplin19
  10. Thomas Edison61
  11. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk27–29
  12. Mark Twain73
  13. Sigmund Freud52
  14. Marie Curie41
  15. Salvador Dalí4
  16. Rabindranath Tagore47
  17. Franklin Delano Roosevelt26
  18. Franz Kafka25
  19. Mao Zedong15
  20. Charles de Gaulle18
  21. Nikola Tesla52
  22. Walt Disney7
  23. George Orwell5
  24. Ernest Hemingway9
  25. James Joyce26
  26. J. R. R. Tolkien16
  27. Henry Ford45
  28. Marlene Dietrich7
  29. Benito Mussolini25
  30. Jean-Paul Sartre3
  31. Le Corbusier21
  32. Frida Kahlo1
  33. Harry S. Truman24
  34. Agatha Christie18
  35. Jorge Luis Borges9
  36. Sarah Bernhardt64
  37. Theodore Roosevelt50
  38. Jawaharlal Nehru19
  39. Marcel Proust37
  40. Dwight D. Eisenhower18
  41. Woodrow Wilson52
  42. Rosa Luxemburg37
  43. Roald Amundsen36
  44. Rudyard Kipling43
  45. Alfred Hitchcock9
  46. Simone de Beauvoirborn
  47. George Bernard Shaw52
  48. John Maynard Keynes25
  49. Niels Bohr23
  50. Bertrand Russell36
  51. Leon Trotsky29
  52. Max Planck50
  53. Arthur Conan Doyle49
  54. Maxim Gorky40
  55. Henri Matisse39
  56. Frank Lloyd Wright41
  57. Louis Armstrong7
  58. Virginia Woolf26
  59. Lyndon B. Johnsonborn
  60. Ernest Rutherford37
  61. Ludwig Wittgenstein19
  62. Max Weber44
  63. Huang Xianfan9
  64. Enrico Fermi7
  65. Nikita Khrushchev14
  66. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry8
  67. H. G. Wells42
  68. Helen Keller28
  69. Pablo Neruda4
  70. Igor Stravinsky26
  71. David Hilbert46
  72. Thomas Mann33
  73. Erwin Schrödinger21
  74. Herbert Hoover34
  75. Hermann Hesse31
  76. Anatole France64
  77. Alexander Graham Bell61
  78. Octave Mirbeau60
  79. Calvin Coolidge36
  80. T. S. Eliot20
  81. Kahlil Gibran25
  82. Wilhelm Röntgen63
  83. Hirohito7
  84. Claude Monet68
  85. Selma Lagerlöf50
  86. Bertolt Brecht10
  87. William Butler Yeats43
  88. Ho Chi Minh18
  89. Sun Yat-sen42
  90. Carl Jung33
  91. Florence Nightingale88
  92. Gustav Mahler48
  93. Vladimir Nabokov9
  94. Eleanor Roosevelt24
  95. B. R. Ambedkar17
  96. Martin Heidegger19
  97. John Steinbeck6
  98. William Howard Taft51
  99. Giacomo Puccini50
  100. Konrad Adenauer32
  101. William Faulkner11
  102. Sergei Eisenstein10
  103. Grover Cleveland71 †
  104. Jack London32
  105. André Gide39
  106. Aldous Huxley14
  107. Federico García Lorca10
  108. Pearl S. Buck16
  109. L. L. Zamenhof49
  110. Warren G. Harding43
  111. Boris Pasternak18
  112. Romain Rolland42
  113. Joseph Goebbels11
  114. Werner Heisenberg7
  115. Samuel Beckett2
  116. Henryk Sienkiewicz62
  117. Leonid Brezhnev2
  118. Henri Bergson49
  119. Chiang Kai-shek21
  120. Nicholas II of Russia40

The 120 best known of 432 are listed.