Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1927?

507 of the people we track were surely alive in 1927. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1927: Gabriel García Márquez, Benedict XVI, Bhumibol Adulyadej, Günter Grass, Sidney Poitier, Gina Lollobrigida, Roger Moore and Ferenc Puskás.

Died in 1927: Isadora Duncana, Svante August Arrhenius and Ryūnosuke Akutagawa.

  1. Adolf Hitler38
  2. Albert Einstein48
  3. Ronald Reagan16
  4. Nelson Mandela9
  5. Mahatma Gandhi58
  6. Joseph Stalin49
  7. Pablo Picasso46
  8. Winston Churchill53
  9. Charlie Chaplin38
  10. Elizabeth II1
  11. Thomas Edison80
  12. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk46–48
  13. Sigmund Freud71
  14. John F. Kennedy10
  15. Marie Curie60
  16. Salvador Dalí23
  17. Rabindranath Tagore66
  18. Franklin Delano Roosevelt45
  19. Marilyn Monroe1
  20. Mao Zedong34
  21. Charles de Gaulle37
  22. Nikola Tesla71
  23. Walt Disney26
  24. George Orwell24
  25. Ernest Hemingway28
  26. Margaret Thatcher2
  27. James Joyce45
  28. John Paul II7
  29. Gabriel García Márquezborn
  30. Fidel Castro1
  31. J. R. R. Tolkien35
  32. Albert Camus14
  33. Henry Ford64
  34. Marlene Dietrich26
  35. Benito Mussolini44
  36. Jean-Paul Sartre22
  37. Le Corbusier40
  38. Frida Kahlo20
  39. Mother Teresa17
  40. Jimmy Carter3
  41. Benedict XVIborn
  42. Harry S. Truman43
  43. Agatha Christie37
  44. George H. W. Bush3
  45. Jorge Luis Borges28
  46. Jawaharlal Nehru38
  47. Dwight D. Eisenhower37
  48. Alan Turing15
  49. Richard Nixon14
  50. Rudyard Kipling62
  51. Alfred Hitchcock28
  52. Simone de Beauvoir19
  53. George Bernard Shaw71
  54. John Maynard Keynes44
  55. Niels Bohr42
  56. Bertrand Russell55
  57. Leon Trotsky48
  58. Max Planck69
  59. Arthur Conan Doyle68
  60. Maxim Gorky59
  61. Henri Matisse58
  62. Frank Lloyd Wright60
  63. Louis Armstrong26
  64. Virginia Woolf45
  65. Akira Kurosawa17
  66. Lyndon B. Johnson19
  67. Gerald Ford14
  68. Ernest Rutherford56
  69. Ludwig Wittgenstein38
  70. Indira Gandhi10
  71. Huang Xianfan28
  72. Enrico Fermi26
  73. Naguib Mahfouz16
  74. Nikita Khrushchev33
  75. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry27
  76. H. G. Wells61
  77. Helen Keller47
  78. Pablo Neruda23
  79. Igor Stravinsky45
  80. David Hilbert65
  81. Thomas Mann52
  82. Erwin Schrödinger40
  83. Herbert Hoover53
  84. Hermann Hesse50
  85. Isaac Asimov7–8
  86. Ingmar Bergman9
  87. Federico Fellini7
  88. Mahathir Mohamad2
  89. Calvin Coolidge55
  90. Kim Il-sung15
  91. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn9
  92. T. S. Eliot39
  93. Kahlil Gibran44
  94. Kwame Nkrumah18
  95. Marlon Brando3
  96. Hirohito26
  97. Richard Feynman9
  98. Selma Lagerlöf69
  99. Bertolt Brecht29
  100. William Butler Yeats62
  101. Ho Chi Minh37
  102. Judy Garland5
  103. Carl Jung52
  104. Vladimir Nabokov28
  105. Eleanor Roosevelt43
  106. B. R. Ambedkar36
  107. Martin Heidegger38
  108. John Steinbeck25
  109. William Howard Taft70
  110. Konrad Adenauer51
  111. William Faulkner30
  112. Sergei Eisenstein29
  113. Édith Piaf12
  114. André Gide58
  115. Aldous Huxley33
  116. Satyajit Ray6
  117. Henry Kissinger4
  118. Federico García Lorca29
  119. Bhumibol Adulyadejborn
  120. Pearl S. Buck35

The 120 best known of 507 are listed.