Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1909?

432 of the people we track were surely alive in 1909. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1909: Kwame Nkrumah, Rita Levi-Montalcini, Eugène Ionesco and Simone Weil.

Died in 1909: Leopold II of Belgium.

  1. Adolf Hitler20
  2. Albert Einstein30
  3. Vladimir Lenin39
  4. Mahatma Gandhi40
  5. Leo Tolstoy81
  6. Joseph Stalin31
  7. Pablo Picasso28
  8. Winston Churchill35
  9. Charlie Chaplin20
  10. Thomas Edison62
  11. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk28–30
  12. Mark Twain74
  13. Sigmund Freud53
  14. Marie Curie42
  15. Salvador Dalí5
  16. Rabindranath Tagore48
  17. Franklin Delano Roosevelt27
  18. Franz Kafka26
  19. Mao Zedong16
  20. Charles de Gaulle19
  21. Nikola Tesla53
  22. Walt Disney8
  23. George Orwell6
  24. Ernest Hemingway10
  25. James Joyce27
  26. J. R. R. Tolkien17
  27. Henry Ford46
  28. Marlene Dietrich8
  29. Benito Mussolini26
  30. Jean-Paul Sartre4
  31. Le Corbusier22
  32. Frida Kahlo2
  33. Harry S. Truman25
  34. Agatha Christie19
  35. Jorge Luis Borges10
  36. Sarah Bernhardt65
  37. Theodore Roosevelt51
  38. Jawaharlal Nehru20
  39. Marcel Proust38
  40. Dwight D. Eisenhower19
  41. Woodrow Wilson53
  42. Rosa Luxemburg38
  43. Roald Amundsen37
  44. Rudyard Kipling44
  45. Alfred Hitchcock10
  46. Simone de Beauvoir1
  47. George Bernard Shaw53
  48. John Maynard Keynes26
  49. Niels Bohr24
  50. Bertrand Russell37
  51. Leon Trotsky30
  52. Max Planck51
  53. Arthur Conan Doyle50
  54. Maxim Gorky41
  55. Henri Matisse40
  56. Frank Lloyd Wright42
  57. Louis Armstrong8
  58. Virginia Woolf27
  59. Lyndon B. Johnson1
  60. Ernest Rutherford38
  61. Ludwig Wittgenstein20
  62. Max Weber45
  63. Huang Xianfan10
  64. Enrico Fermi8
  65. Nikita Khrushchev15
  66. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry9
  67. H. G. Wells43
  68. Helen Keller29
  69. Pablo Neruda5
  70. Igor Stravinsky27
  71. David Hilbert47
  72. Thomas Mann34
  73. Erwin Schrödinger22
  74. Herbert Hoover35
  75. Hermann Hesse32
  76. Anatole France65
  77. Alexander Graham Bell62
  78. Octave Mirbeau61
  79. Calvin Coolidge37
  80. T. S. Eliot21
  81. Kahlil Gibran26
  82. Kwame Nkrumahborn
  83. Wilhelm Röntgen64
  84. Hirohito8
  85. Claude Monet69
  86. Selma Lagerlöf51
  87. Bertolt Brecht11
  88. William Butler Yeats44
  89. Ho Chi Minh19
  90. Sun Yat-sen43
  91. Carl Jung34
  92. Florence Nightingale89
  93. Gustav Mahler49
  94. Vladimir Nabokov10
  95. Eleanor Roosevelt25
  96. B. R. Ambedkar18
  97. Martin Heidegger20
  98. John Steinbeck7
  99. William Howard Taft52
  100. Giacomo Puccini51
  101. Konrad Adenauer33
  102. William Faulkner12
  103. Sergei Eisenstein11
  104. Jack London33
  105. André Gide40
  106. Aldous Huxley15
  107. Federico García Lorca11
  108. Pearl S. Buck17
  109. L. L. Zamenhof50
  110. Warren G. Harding44
  111. Boris Pasternak19
  112. Romain Rolland43
  113. Joseph Goebbels12
  114. Werner Heisenberg8
  115. Samuel Beckett3
  116. Henryk Sienkiewicz63
  117. Leonid Brezhnev3
  118. Henri Bergson50
  119. Chiang Kai-shek22
  120. Nicholas II of Russia41

The 120 best known of 432 are listed.