Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1915?

453 of the people we track were surely alive in 1915. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1915: Édith Piaf, Frank Sinatra, Ingrid Bergman, Saul Bellow, Augusto Pinochet, Arthur Miller, Orson Welles and Paul Samuelson.

  1. Adolf Hitler26
  2. Albert Einstein36
  3. Ronald Reagan4
  4. Vladimir Lenin45
  5. Mahatma Gandhi46
  6. Joseph Stalin37
  7. Pablo Picasso34
  8. Winston Churchill41
  9. Charlie Chaplin26
  10. Thomas Edison68
  11. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk34–36
  12. Sigmund Freud59
  13. Marie Curie48
  14. Salvador Dalí11
  15. Rabindranath Tagore54
  16. Franklin Delano Roosevelt33
  17. Franz Kafka32
  18. Mao Zedong22
  19. Charles de Gaulle25
  20. Nikola Tesla59
  21. Walt Disney14
  22. George Orwell12
  23. Ernest Hemingway16
  24. James Joyce33
  25. J. R. R. Tolkien23
  26. Albert Camus2
  27. Henry Ford52
  28. Marlene Dietrich14
  29. Benito Mussolini32
  30. Jean-Paul Sartre10
  31. Le Corbusier28
  32. Frida Kahlo8
  33. Mother Teresa5
  34. Harry S. Truman31
  35. Agatha Christie25
  36. Jorge Luis Borges16
  37. Sarah Bernhardt71
  38. Theodore Roosevelt57
  39. Jawaharlal Nehru26
  40. Marcel Proust44
  41. Dwight D. Eisenhower25
  42. Woodrow Wilson59
  43. Rosa Luxemburg44
  44. Roald Amundsen43
  45. Alan Turing3
  46. Richard Nixon2
  47. Rudyard Kipling50
  48. Alfred Hitchcock16
  49. Simone de Beauvoir7
  50. George Bernard Shaw59
  51. John Maynard Keynes32
  52. Niels Bohr30
  53. Bertrand Russell43
  54. Leon Trotsky36
  55. Max Planck57
  56. Arthur Conan Doyle56
  57. Maxim Gorky47
  58. Henri Matisse46
  59. Frank Lloyd Wright48
  60. Louis Armstrong14
  61. Virginia Woolf33
  62. Akira Kurosawa5
  63. Lyndon B. Johnson7
  64. Gerald Ford2
  65. Ernest Rutherford44
  66. Ludwig Wittgenstein26
  67. Max Weber51
  68. Huang Xianfan16
  69. Enrico Fermi14
  70. Naguib Mahfouz4
  71. Nikita Khrushchev21
  72. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry15
  73. H. G. Wells49
  74. Helen Keller35
  75. Pablo Neruda11
  76. Igor Stravinsky33
  77. David Hilbert53
  78. Thomas Mann40
  79. Erwin Schrödinger28
  80. Herbert Hoover41
  81. Hermann Hesse38
  82. Anatole France71
  83. Alexander Graham Bell68
  84. Octave Mirbeau67
  85. Calvin Coolidge43
  86. Kim Il-sung3
  87. T. S. Eliot27
  88. Kahlil Gibran32
  89. Kwame Nkrumah6
  90. Wilhelm Röntgen70
  91. Hirohito14
  92. Claude Monet75
  93. Selma Lagerlöf57
  94. Bertolt Brecht17
  95. William Butler Yeats50
  96. Ho Chi Minh25
  97. Sun Yat-sen49
  98. Carl Jung40
  99. Vladimir Nabokov16
  100. Eleanor Roosevelt31
  101. B. R. Ambedkar24
  102. Martin Heidegger26
  103. John Steinbeck13
  104. William Howard Taft58
  105. Giacomo Puccini57
  106. Konrad Adenauer39
  107. William Faulkner18
  108. Sergei Eisenstein17
  109. Jack London39
  110. Édith Piafborn
  111. André Gide46
  112. Aldous Huxley21
  113. Federico García Lorca17
  114. Pearl S. Buck23
  115. Georges Pompidou4
  116. L. L. Zamenhof56
  117. Warren G. Harding50
  118. Boris Pasternak25
  119. Romain Rolland49
  120. Joseph Goebbels18

The 120 best known of 453 are listed.