Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1922?

483 of the people we track were surely alive in 1922. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1922: Judy Garland, José Saramago, Kurt Vonnegut, Yitzhak Rabin, Christopher Lee, Doris Day, Jack Kerouac and Stan Lee.

Died in 1922: Marcel Proust, Alexander Graham Bell and Benedict XV.

  1. Adolf Hitler33
  2. Albert Einstein43
  3. Ronald Reagan11
  4. Vladimir Lenin52
  5. Nelson Mandela4
  6. Mahatma Gandhi53
  7. Joseph Stalin44
  8. Pablo Picasso41
  9. Winston Churchill48
  10. Charlie Chaplin33
  11. Thomas Edison75
  12. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk41–43
  13. Sigmund Freud66
  14. John F. Kennedy5
  15. Marie Curie55
  16. Salvador Dalí18
  17. Rabindranath Tagore61
  18. Franklin Delano Roosevelt40
  19. Franz Kafka39
  20. Mao Zedong29
  21. Charles de Gaulle32
  22. Nikola Tesla66
  23. Walt Disney21
  24. George Orwell19
  25. Ernest Hemingway23
  26. James Joyce40
  27. John Paul II2
  28. J. R. R. Tolkien30
  29. Albert Camus9
  30. Henry Ford59
  31. Marlene Dietrich21
  32. Benito Mussolini39
  33. Jean-Paul Sartre17
  34. Le Corbusier35
  35. Frida Kahlo15
  36. Mother Teresa12
  37. Harry S. Truman38
  38. Agatha Christie32
  39. Jorge Luis Borges23
  40. Sarah Bernhardt78
  41. Jawaharlal Nehru33
  42. Marcel Proust51 †
  43. Dwight D. Eisenhower32
  44. Woodrow Wilson66
  45. Roald Amundsen50
  46. Alan Turing10
  47. Richard Nixon9
  48. Rudyard Kipling57
  49. Alfred Hitchcock23
  50. Simone de Beauvoir14
  51. George Bernard Shaw66
  52. John Maynard Keynes39
  53. Niels Bohr37
  54. Bertrand Russell50
  55. Leon Trotsky43
  56. Max Planck64
  57. Arthur Conan Doyle63
  58. Maxim Gorky54
  59. Henri Matisse53
  60. Frank Lloyd Wright55
  61. Louis Armstrong21
  62. Virginia Woolf40
  63. Akira Kurosawa12
  64. Lyndon B. Johnson14
  65. Gerald Ford9
  66. Ernest Rutherford51
  67. Ludwig Wittgenstein33
  68. Indira Gandhi5
  69. Huang Xianfan23
  70. Enrico Fermi21
  71. Naguib Mahfouz11
  72. Nikita Khrushchev28
  73. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry22
  74. H. G. Wells56
  75. Helen Keller42
  76. Pablo Neruda18
  77. Igor Stravinsky40
  78. David Hilbert60
  79. Thomas Mann47
  80. Erwin Schrödinger35
  81. Herbert Hoover48
  82. Hermann Hesse45
  83. Isaac Asimov2–3
  84. Ingmar Bergman4
  85. Federico Fellini2
  86. Anatole France78
  87. Alexander Graham Bell75 †
  88. Calvin Coolidge50
  89. Kim Il-sung10
  90. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn4
  91. T. S. Eliot34
  92. Kahlil Gibran39
  93. Kwame Nkrumah13
  94. Wilhelm Röntgen77
  95. Hirohito21
  96. Richard Feynman4
  97. Claude Monet82
  98. Selma Lagerlöf64
  99. Bertolt Brecht24
  100. William Butler Yeats57
  101. Ho Chi Minh32
  102. Judy Garlandborn
  103. Sun Yat-sen56
  104. Carl Jung47
  105. Vladimir Nabokov23
  106. Eleanor Roosevelt38
  107. B. R. Ambedkar31
  108. Martin Heidegger33
  109. John Steinbeck20
  110. William Howard Taft65
  111. Giacomo Puccini64
  112. Konrad Adenauer46
  113. William Faulkner25
  114. Sergei Eisenstein24
  115. Édith Piaf7
  116. André Gide53
  117. Aldous Huxley28
  118. Satyajit Ray1
  119. Federico García Lorca24
  120. Pearl S. Buck30

The 120 best known of 483 are listed.