Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1912?

444 of the people we track were surely alive in 1912. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1912: Alan Turing, Kim Il-sung, Milton Friedman, John Paul I, Jackson Pollock, Wernher von Braun, Erich Honecker and James Callaghan.

Died in 1912: Henri Poincaré, August Strindberg, Bram Stoker and Emperor Meiji.

  1. Adolf Hitler23
  2. Albert Einstein33
  3. Ronald Reagan1
  4. Vladimir Lenin42
  5. Mahatma Gandhi43
  6. Joseph Stalin34
  7. Pablo Picasso31
  8. Winston Churchill38
  9. Charlie Chaplin23
  10. Thomas Edison65
  11. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk31–33
  12. Sigmund Freud56
  13. Marie Curie45
  14. Salvador Dalí8
  15. Rabindranath Tagore51
  16. Franklin Delano Roosevelt30
  17. Franz Kafka29
  18. Mao Zedong19
  19. Charles de Gaulle22
  20. Nikola Tesla56
  21. Walt Disney11
  22. George Orwell9
  23. Ernest Hemingway13
  24. James Joyce30
  25. J. R. R. Tolkien20
  26. Henry Ford49
  27. Marlene Dietrich11
  28. Benito Mussolini29
  29. Jean-Paul Sartre7
  30. Le Corbusier25
  31. Frida Kahlo5
  32. Mother Teresa2
  33. Harry S. Truman28
  34. Agatha Christie22
  35. Jorge Luis Borges13
  36. Sarah Bernhardt68
  37. Theodore Roosevelt54
  38. Jawaharlal Nehru23
  39. Marcel Proust41
  40. Dwight D. Eisenhower22
  41. Woodrow Wilson56
  42. Rosa Luxemburg41
  43. Roald Amundsen40
  44. Alan Turingborn
  45. Rudyard Kipling47
  46. Alfred Hitchcock13
  47. Simone de Beauvoir4
  48. George Bernard Shaw56
  49. John Maynard Keynes29
  50. Niels Bohr27
  51. Bertrand Russell40
  52. Leon Trotsky33
  53. Max Planck54
  54. Arthur Conan Doyle53
  55. Maxim Gorky44
  56. Henri Matisse43
  57. Frank Lloyd Wright45
  58. Louis Armstrong11
  59. Virginia Woolf30
  60. Akira Kurosawa2
  61. Lyndon B. Johnson4
  62. Ernest Rutherford41
  63. Ludwig Wittgenstein23
  64. Max Weber48
  65. Huang Xianfan13
  66. Enrico Fermi11
  67. Naguib Mahfouz1
  68. Nikita Khrushchev18
  69. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry12
  70. H. G. Wells46
  71. Helen Keller32
  72. Pablo Neruda8
  73. Igor Stravinsky30
  74. David Hilbert50
  75. Thomas Mann37
  76. Erwin Schrödinger25
  77. Herbert Hoover38
  78. Hermann Hesse35
  79. Anatole France68
  80. Alexander Graham Bell65
  81. Octave Mirbeau64
  82. Calvin Coolidge40
  83. Kim Il-sungborn
  84. T. S. Eliot24
  85. Kahlil Gibran29
  86. Kwame Nkrumah3
  87. Wilhelm Röntgen67
  88. Hirohito11
  89. Claude Monet72
  90. Selma Lagerlöf54
  91. Bertolt Brecht14
  92. William Butler Yeats47
  93. Ho Chi Minh22
  94. Sun Yat-sen46
  95. Carl Jung37
  96. Vladimir Nabokov13
  97. Eleanor Roosevelt28
  98. B. R. Ambedkar21
  99. Martin Heidegger23
  100. John Steinbeck10
  101. William Howard Taft55
  102. Giacomo Puccini54
  103. Konrad Adenauer36
  104. William Faulkner15
  105. Sergei Eisenstein14
  106. Jack London36
  107. André Gide43
  108. Aldous Huxley18
  109. Federico García Lorca14
  110. Pearl S. Buck20
  111. Georges Pompidou1
  112. L. L. Zamenhof53
  113. Warren G. Harding47
  114. Boris Pasternak22
  115. Romain Rolland46
  116. Joseph Goebbels15
  117. Werner Heisenberg11
  118. Samuel Beckett6
  119. Henryk Sienkiewicz66
  120. Leonid Brezhnev6

The 120 best known of 444 are listed.