Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1911?

436 of the people we track were surely alive in 1911. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1911: Ronald Reagan, Naguib Mahfouz, Georges Pompidou, Czesław Miłosz, William Golding, Tennessee Williams, Konstantin Chernenko and Marshall McLuhan.

Died in 1911: Gustav Mahler and Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff.

  1. Adolf Hitler22
  2. Albert Einstein32
  3. Ronald Reaganborn
  4. Vladimir Lenin41
  5. Mahatma Gandhi42
  6. Joseph Stalin33
  7. Pablo Picasso30
  8. Winston Churchill37
  9. Charlie Chaplin22
  10. Thomas Edison64
  11. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk30–32
  12. Sigmund Freud55
  13. Marie Curie44
  14. Salvador Dalí7
  15. Rabindranath Tagore50
  16. Franklin Delano Roosevelt29
  17. Franz Kafka28
  18. Mao Zedong18
  19. Charles de Gaulle21
  20. Nikola Tesla55
  21. Walt Disney10
  22. George Orwell8
  23. Ernest Hemingway12
  24. James Joyce29
  25. J. R. R. Tolkien19
  26. Henry Ford48
  27. Marlene Dietrich10
  28. Benito Mussolini28
  29. Jean-Paul Sartre6
  30. Le Corbusier24
  31. Frida Kahlo4
  32. Mother Teresa1
  33. Harry S. Truman27
  34. Agatha Christie21
  35. Jorge Luis Borges12
  36. Sarah Bernhardt67
  37. Theodore Roosevelt53
  38. Jawaharlal Nehru22
  39. Marcel Proust40
  40. Dwight D. Eisenhower21
  41. Woodrow Wilson55
  42. Rosa Luxemburg40
  43. Roald Amundsen39
  44. Rudyard Kipling46
  45. Alfred Hitchcock12
  46. Simone de Beauvoir3
  47. George Bernard Shaw55
  48. John Maynard Keynes28
  49. Niels Bohr26
  50. Bertrand Russell39
  51. Leon Trotsky32
  52. Max Planck53
  53. Arthur Conan Doyle52
  54. Maxim Gorky43
  55. Henri Matisse42
  56. Frank Lloyd Wright44
  57. Louis Armstrong10
  58. Virginia Woolf29
  59. Akira Kurosawa1
  60. Lyndon B. Johnson3
  61. Ernest Rutherford40
  62. Ludwig Wittgenstein22
  63. Max Weber47
  64. Huang Xianfan12
  65. Enrico Fermi10
  66. Naguib Mahfouzborn
  67. Nikita Khrushchev17
  68. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry11
  69. H. G. Wells45
  70. Helen Keller31
  71. Pablo Neruda7
  72. Igor Stravinsky29
  73. David Hilbert49
  74. Thomas Mann36
  75. Erwin Schrödinger24
  76. Herbert Hoover37
  77. Hermann Hesse34
  78. Anatole France67
  79. Alexander Graham Bell64
  80. Octave Mirbeau63
  81. Calvin Coolidge39
  82. T. S. Eliot23
  83. Kahlil Gibran28
  84. Kwame Nkrumah2
  85. Wilhelm Röntgen66
  86. Hirohito10
  87. Claude Monet71
  88. Selma Lagerlöf53
  89. Bertolt Brecht13
  90. William Butler Yeats46
  91. Ho Chi Minh21
  92. Sun Yat-sen45
  93. Carl Jung36
  94. Gustav Mahler50 †
  95. Vladimir Nabokov12
  96. Eleanor Roosevelt27
  97. B. R. Ambedkar20
  98. Martin Heidegger22
  99. John Steinbeck9
  100. William Howard Taft54
  101. Giacomo Puccini53
  102. Konrad Adenauer35
  103. William Faulkner14
  104. Sergei Eisenstein13
  105. Jack London35
  106. André Gide42
  107. Aldous Huxley17
  108. Federico García Lorca13
  109. Pearl S. Buck19
  110. Georges Pompidouborn
  111. L. L. Zamenhof52
  112. Warren G. Harding46
  113. Boris Pasternak21
  114. Romain Rolland45
  115. Joseph Goebbels14
  116. Werner Heisenberg10
  117. Samuel Beckett5
  118. Henryk Sienkiewicz65
  119. Leonid Brezhnev5
  120. Henri Bergson52

The 120 best known of 436 are listed.