Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1921?

472 of the people we track were surely alive in 1921. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1921: Satyajit Ray, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Suharto, Andrei Sakharov, Nancy Reagan, Stanisław Lem and Charles Bronson.

Died in 1921: Peter Kropotkin, Alexander Blok and Gabriel Lippmann.

  1. Adolf Hitler32
  2. Albert Einstein42
  3. Ronald Reagan10
  4. Vladimir Lenin51
  5. Nelson Mandela3
  6. Mahatma Gandhi52
  7. Joseph Stalin43
  8. Pablo Picasso40
  9. Winston Churchill47
  10. Charlie Chaplin32
  11. Thomas Edison74
  12. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk40–42
  13. Sigmund Freud65
  14. John F. Kennedy4
  15. Marie Curie54
  16. Salvador Dalí17
  17. Rabindranath Tagore60
  18. Franklin Delano Roosevelt39
  19. Franz Kafka38
  20. Mao Zedong28
  21. Charles de Gaulle31
  22. Nikola Tesla65
  23. Walt Disney20
  24. George Orwell18
  25. Ernest Hemingway22
  26. James Joyce39
  27. John Paul II1
  28. J. R. R. Tolkien29
  29. Albert Camus8
  30. Henry Ford58
  31. Marlene Dietrich20
  32. Benito Mussolini38
  33. Jean-Paul Sartre16
  34. Le Corbusier34
  35. Frida Kahlo14
  36. Mother Teresa11
  37. Harry S. Truman37
  38. Agatha Christie31
  39. Jorge Luis Borges22
  40. Sarah Bernhardt77
  41. Jawaharlal Nehru32
  42. Marcel Proust50
  43. Dwight D. Eisenhower31
  44. Woodrow Wilson65
  45. Roald Amundsen49
  46. Alan Turing9
  47. Richard Nixon8
  48. Rudyard Kipling56
  49. Alfred Hitchcock22
  50. Simone de Beauvoir13
  51. George Bernard Shaw65
  52. John Maynard Keynes38
  53. Niels Bohr36
  54. Bertrand Russell49
  55. Leon Trotsky42
  56. Max Planck63
  57. Arthur Conan Doyle62
  58. Maxim Gorky53
  59. Henri Matisse52
  60. Frank Lloyd Wright54
  61. Louis Armstrong20
  62. Virginia Woolf39
  63. Akira Kurosawa11
  64. Lyndon B. Johnson13
  65. Gerald Ford8
  66. Ernest Rutherford50
  67. Ludwig Wittgenstein32
  68. Indira Gandhi4
  69. Huang Xianfan22
  70. Enrico Fermi20
  71. Naguib Mahfouz10
  72. Nikita Khrushchev27
  73. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry21
  74. H. G. Wells55
  75. Helen Keller41
  76. Pablo Neruda17
  77. Igor Stravinsky39
  78. David Hilbert59
  79. Thomas Mann46
  80. Erwin Schrödinger34
  81. Herbert Hoover47
  82. Hermann Hesse44
  83. Isaac Asimov1–2
  84. Ingmar Bergman3
  85. Federico Fellini1
  86. Anatole France77
  87. Alexander Graham Bell74
  88. Calvin Coolidge49
  89. Kim Il-sung9
  90. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn3
  91. T. S. Eliot33
  92. Kahlil Gibran38
  93. Kwame Nkrumah12
  94. Wilhelm Röntgen76
  95. Hirohito20
  96. Richard Feynman3
  97. Claude Monet81
  98. Selma Lagerlöf63
  99. Bertolt Brecht23
  100. William Butler Yeats56
  101. Ho Chi Minh31
  102. Sun Yat-sen55
  103. Carl Jung46
  104. Vladimir Nabokov22
  105. Eleanor Roosevelt37
  106. B. R. Ambedkar30
  107. Martin Heidegger32
  108. John Steinbeck19
  109. William Howard Taft64
  110. Giacomo Puccini63
  111. Konrad Adenauer45
  112. William Faulkner24
  113. Sergei Eisenstein23
  114. Édith Piaf6
  115. André Gide52
  116. Aldous Huxley27
  117. Satyajit Rayborn
  118. Federico García Lorca23
  119. Pearl S. Buck29
  120. Georges Pompidou10

The 120 best known of 472 are listed.