Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1929?

534 of the people we track were surely alive in 1929. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1929: Martin Luther King Jr., Anne Frank, Yasser Arafat, Hebe Camargo, Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, Milan Kundera and Ursula K. Le Guin.

Died in 1929: Carl Benz and Georges Clemenceau.

  1. Adolf Hitler40
  2. Albert Einstein50
  3. Ronald Reagan18
  4. Nelson Mandela11
  5. Mahatma Gandhi60
  6. Joseph Stalin51
  7. Pablo Picasso48
  8. Winston Churchill55
  9. Charlie Chaplin40
  10. Elizabeth II3
  11. Thomas Edison82
  12. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk48–50
  13. Sigmund Freud73
  14. John F. Kennedy12
  15. Marie Curie62
  16. Martin Luther King Jr.born
  17. Salvador Dalí25
  18. Rabindranath Tagore68
  19. Franklin Delano Roosevelt47
  20. Marilyn Monroe3
  21. Mao Zedong36
  22. Che Guevara1
  23. Charles de Gaulle39
  24. Nikola Tesla73
  25. Walt Disney28
  26. George Orwell26
  27. Ernest Hemingway30
  28. Margaret Thatcher4
  29. James Joyce47
  30. John Paul II9
  31. Gabriel García Márquez2
  32. Fidel Castro3
  33. J. R. R. Tolkien37
  34. Albert Camus16
  35. Henry Ford66
  36. Marlene Dietrich28
  37. Benito Mussolini46
  38. Jean-Paul Sartre24
  39. Le Corbusier42
  40. Frida Kahlo22
  41. Mother Teresa19
  42. Jimmy Carter5
  43. Benedict XVI2
  44. Harry S. Truman45
  45. Agatha Christie39
  46. George H. W. Bush5
  47. Jorge Luis Borges30
  48. Jawaharlal Nehru40
  49. Dwight D. Eisenhower39
  50. Alan Turing17
  51. Richard Nixon16
  52. Rudyard Kipling64
  53. Alfred Hitchcock30
  54. Noam Chomsky1
  55. Simone de Beauvoir21
  56. George Bernard Shaw73
  57. John Maynard Keynes46
  58. Niels Bohr44
  59. Bertrand Russell57
  60. Leon Trotsky50
  61. Max Planck71
  62. Arthur Conan Doyle70
  63. Maxim Gorky61
  64. Henri Matisse60
  65. Frank Lloyd Wright62
  66. Andy Warhol1
  67. Louis Armstrong28
  68. Virginia Woolf47
  69. Akira Kurosawa19
  70. Lyndon B. Johnson21
  71. Gerald Ford16
  72. Ernest Rutherford58
  73. Ludwig Wittgenstein40
  74. Indira Gandhi12
  75. Huang Xianfan30
  76. Enrico Fermi28
  77. Naguib Mahfouz18
  78. Nikita Khrushchev35
  79. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry29
  80. Anne Frankborn
  81. H. G. Wells63
  82. Helen Keller49
  83. Pablo Neruda25
  84. Igor Stravinsky47
  85. David Hilbert67
  86. Thomas Mann54
  87. Erwin Schrödinger42
  88. Herbert Hoover55
  89. Hermann Hesse52
  90. Isaac Asimov9–10
  91. Ingmar Bergman11
  92. Federico Fellini9
  93. Mahathir Mohamad4
  94. Calvin Coolidge57
  95. Kim Il-sung17
  96. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn11
  97. T. S. Eliot41
  98. Stanley Kubrick1
  99. Kahlil Gibran46
  100. Kwame Nkrumah20
  101. Marlon Brando5
  102. Hirohito28
  103. Richard Feynman11
  104. Selma Lagerlöf71
  105. Bertolt Brecht31
  106. William Butler Yeats64
  107. Yasser Arafatborn
  108. Ho Chi Minh39
  109. Judy Garland7
  110. Carl Jung54
  111. Vladimir Nabokov30
  112. Hebe Camargoborn
  113. Eleanor Roosevelt45
  114. B. R. Ambedkar38
  115. Audrey Hepburnborn
  116. Martin Heidegger40
  117. John Steinbeck27
  118. William Howard Taft72
  119. Konrad Adenauer53
  120. William Faulkner32

The 120 best known of 534 are listed.