Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1918?

466 of the people we track were surely alive in 1918. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1918: Nelson Mandela, Ingmar Bergman, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Richard Feynman, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anwar Sadat, Nicolae Ceaușescu and Helmut Schmidt.

Died in 1918: Nicholas II of Russia, Claude Debussy, Georg Cantor, Guillaume Apollinaire, Gustav Klimt, Abdul Hamid II, Gavrilo Princip and Karl Ferdinand Braun.

  1. Adolf Hitler29
  2. Albert Einstein39
  3. Ronald Reagan7
  4. Vladimir Lenin48
  5. Nelson Mandelaborn
  6. Mahatma Gandhi49
  7. Joseph Stalin40
  8. Pablo Picasso37
  9. Winston Churchill44
  10. Charlie Chaplin29
  11. Thomas Edison71
  12. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk37–39
  13. Sigmund Freud62
  14. John F. Kennedy1
  15. Marie Curie51
  16. Salvador Dalí14
  17. Rabindranath Tagore57
  18. Franklin Delano Roosevelt36
  19. Franz Kafka35
  20. Mao Zedong25
  21. Charles de Gaulle28
  22. Nikola Tesla62
  23. Walt Disney17
  24. George Orwell15
  25. Ernest Hemingway19
  26. James Joyce36
  27. J. R. R. Tolkien26
  28. Albert Camus5
  29. Henry Ford55
  30. Marlene Dietrich17
  31. Benito Mussolini35
  32. Jean-Paul Sartre13
  33. Le Corbusier31
  34. Frida Kahlo11
  35. Mother Teresa8
  36. Harry S. Truman34
  37. Agatha Christie28
  38. Jorge Luis Borges19
  39. Sarah Bernhardt74
  40. Theodore Roosevelt60
  41. Jawaharlal Nehru29
  42. Marcel Proust47
  43. Dwight D. Eisenhower28
  44. Woodrow Wilson62
  45. Rosa Luxemburg47
  46. Roald Amundsen46
  47. Alan Turing6
  48. Richard Nixon5
  49. Rudyard Kipling53
  50. Alfred Hitchcock19
  51. Simone de Beauvoir10
  52. George Bernard Shaw62
  53. John Maynard Keynes35
  54. Niels Bohr33
  55. Bertrand Russell46
  56. Leon Trotsky39
  57. Max Planck60
  58. Arthur Conan Doyle59
  59. Maxim Gorky50
  60. Henri Matisse49
  61. Frank Lloyd Wright51
  62. Louis Armstrong17
  63. Virginia Woolf36
  64. Akira Kurosawa8
  65. Lyndon B. Johnson10
  66. Gerald Ford5
  67. Ernest Rutherford47
  68. Ludwig Wittgenstein29
  69. Indira Gandhi1
  70. Max Weber54
  71. Huang Xianfan19
  72. Enrico Fermi17
  73. Naguib Mahfouz7
  74. Nikita Khrushchev24
  75. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry18
  76. H. G. Wells52
  77. Helen Keller38
  78. Pablo Neruda14
  79. Igor Stravinsky36
  80. David Hilbert56
  81. Thomas Mann43
  82. Erwin Schrödinger31
  83. Herbert Hoover44
  84. Hermann Hesse41
  85. Ingmar Bergmanborn
  86. Anatole France74
  87. Alexander Graham Bell71
  88. Calvin Coolidge46
  89. Kim Il-sung6
  90. Aleksandr Solzhenitsynborn
  91. T. S. Eliot30
  92. Kahlil Gibran35
  93. Kwame Nkrumah9
  94. Wilhelm Röntgen73
  95. Hirohito17
  96. Richard Feynmanborn
  97. Claude Monet78
  98. Selma Lagerlöf60
  99. Bertolt Brecht20
  100. William Butler Yeats53
  101. Ho Chi Minh28
  102. Sun Yat-sen52
  103. Carl Jung43
  104. Vladimir Nabokov19
  105. Eleanor Roosevelt34
  106. B. R. Ambedkar27
  107. Martin Heidegger29
  108. John Steinbeck16
  109. William Howard Taft61
  110. Giacomo Puccini60
  111. Konrad Adenauer42
  112. William Faulkner21
  113. Sergei Eisenstein20
  114. Édith Piaf3
  115. André Gide49
  116. Aldous Huxley24
  117. Federico García Lorca20
  118. Pearl S. Buck26
  119. Georges Pompidou7
  120. Warren G. Harding53

The 120 best known of 466 are listed.