Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1919?

465 of the people we track were surely alive in 1919. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1919: Edmund Hillary, Doris Lessing, J. D. Salinger, Mohammad Reza I of Iran, Eva Perón, Mikhail Kalashnikov and Primo Levi.

Died in 1919: Theodore Roosevelt, Rosa Luxemburg, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Andrew Carnegie, Ernst Haeckel, Emiliano Zapata, John William Strutt and Karl Adolph Gjellerup.

  1. Adolf Hitler30
  2. Albert Einstein40
  3. Ronald Reagan8
  4. Vladimir Lenin49
  5. Nelson Mandela1
  6. Mahatma Gandhi50
  7. Joseph Stalin41
  8. Pablo Picasso38
  9. Winston Churchill45
  10. Charlie Chaplin30
  11. Thomas Edison72
  12. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk38–40
  13. Sigmund Freud63
  14. John F. Kennedy2
  15. Marie Curie52
  16. Salvador Dalí15
  17. Rabindranath Tagore58
  18. Franklin Delano Roosevelt37
  19. Franz Kafka36
  20. Mao Zedong26
  21. Charles de Gaulle29
  22. Nikola Tesla63
  23. Walt Disney18
  24. George Orwell16
  25. Ernest Hemingway20
  26. James Joyce37
  27. J. R. R. Tolkien27
  28. Albert Camus6
  29. Henry Ford56
  30. Marlene Dietrich18
  31. Benito Mussolini36
  32. Jean-Paul Sartre14
  33. Le Corbusier32
  34. Frida Kahlo12
  35. Mother Teresa9
  36. Harry S. Truman35
  37. Agatha Christie29
  38. Jorge Luis Borges20
  39. Sarah Bernhardt75
  40. Theodore Roosevelt60 †
  41. Jawaharlal Nehru30
  42. Marcel Proust48
  43. Dwight D. Eisenhower29
  44. Woodrow Wilson63
  45. Rosa Luxemburg47 †
  46. Roald Amundsen47
  47. Alan Turing7
  48. Richard Nixon6
  49. Rudyard Kipling54
  50. Alfred Hitchcock20
  51. Simone de Beauvoir11
  52. George Bernard Shaw63
  53. John Maynard Keynes36
  54. Niels Bohr34
  55. Bertrand Russell47
  56. Leon Trotsky40
  57. Max Planck61
  58. Arthur Conan Doyle60
  59. Maxim Gorky51
  60. Henri Matisse50
  61. Frank Lloyd Wright52
  62. Louis Armstrong18
  63. Virginia Woolf37
  64. Akira Kurosawa9
  65. Lyndon B. Johnson11
  66. Gerald Ford6
  67. Ernest Rutherford48
  68. Ludwig Wittgenstein30
  69. Indira Gandhi2
  70. Max Weber55
  71. Huang Xianfan20
  72. Enrico Fermi18
  73. Naguib Mahfouz8
  74. Nikita Khrushchev25
  75. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry19
  76. H. G. Wells53
  77. Helen Keller39
  78. Pablo Neruda15
  79. Igor Stravinsky37
  80. David Hilbert57
  81. Thomas Mann44
  82. Erwin Schrödinger32
  83. Herbert Hoover45
  84. Hermann Hesse42
  85. Ingmar Bergman1
  86. Anatole France75
  87. Alexander Graham Bell72
  88. Calvin Coolidge47
  89. Kim Il-sung7
  90. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn1
  91. T. S. Eliot31
  92. Kahlil Gibran36
  93. Kwame Nkrumah10
  94. Wilhelm Röntgen74
  95. Hirohito18
  96. Richard Feynman1
  97. Claude Monet79
  98. Selma Lagerlöf61
  99. Bertolt Brecht21
  100. William Butler Yeats54
  101. Ho Chi Minh29
  102. Sun Yat-sen53
  103. Carl Jung44
  104. Vladimir Nabokov20
  105. Eleanor Roosevelt35
  106. B. R. Ambedkar28
  107. Martin Heidegger30
  108. John Steinbeck17
  109. William Howard Taft62
  110. Giacomo Puccini61
  111. Konrad Adenauer43
  112. William Faulkner22
  113. Sergei Eisenstein21
  114. Édith Piaf4
  115. André Gide50
  116. Aldous Huxley25
  117. Federico García Lorca21
  118. Pearl S. Buck27
  119. Georges Pompidou8
  120. Warren G. Harding54

The 120 best known of 465 are listed.