Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1931?

553 of the people we track were surely alive in 1931. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1931: Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, Toni Morrison, Alice Munro, Desmond Tutu, Raúl Castro, James Dean and Tomas Tranströmer.

Died in 1931: Thomas Edison, Kahlil Gibran and Albert Abraham Michelson.

  1. Adolf Hitler42
  2. Albert Einstein52
  3. Ronald Reagan20
  4. Nelson Mandela13
  5. Mahatma Gandhi62
  6. Joseph Stalin53
  7. Pablo Picasso50
  8. Winston Churchill57
  9. Charlie Chaplin42
  10. Elizabeth II5
  11. Thomas Edison84 †
  12. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk50–52
  13. Sigmund Freud75
  14. John F. Kennedy14
  15. Marie Curie64
  16. Martin Luther King Jr.2
  17. Salvador Dalí27
  18. Rabindranath Tagore70
  19. Franklin Delano Roosevelt49
  20. Marilyn Monroe5
  21. Mao Zedong38
  22. Che Guevara3
  23. Charles de Gaulle41
  24. Nikola Tesla75
  25. Neil Armstrong1
  26. Walt Disney30
  27. George Orwell28
  28. Ernest Hemingway32
  29. Margaret Thatcher6
  30. James Joyce49
  31. John Paul II11
  32. Gabriel García Márquez4
  33. Fidel Castro5
  34. J. R. R. Tolkien39
  35. Albert Camus18
  36. Henry Ford68
  37. Marlene Dietrich30
  38. Mikhail Gorbachevborn
  39. Benito Mussolini48
  40. Jean-Paul Sartre26
  41. Le Corbusier44
  42. Frida Kahlo24
  43. Mother Teresa21
  44. Jimmy Carter7
  45. Benedict XVI4
  46. Harry S. Truman47
  47. Agatha Christie41
  48. George H. W. Bush7
  49. Jorge Luis Borges32
  50. Jawaharlal Nehru42
  51. Dwight D. Eisenhower41
  52. Alan Turing19
  53. Richard Nixon18
  54. Rudyard Kipling66
  55. Alfred Hitchcock32
  56. Noam Chomsky3
  57. Simone de Beauvoir23
  58. George Bernard Shaw75
  59. John Maynard Keynes48
  60. Niels Bohr46
  61. Bertrand Russell59
  62. Leon Trotsky52
  63. Max Planck73
  64. Maxim Gorky63
  65. Henri Matisse62
  66. Frank Lloyd Wright64
  67. Andy Warhol3
  68. Louis Armstrong30
  69. Virginia Woolf49
  70. Akira Kurosawa21
  71. Lyndon B. Johnson23
  72. Gerald Ford18
  73. Ernest Rutherford60
  74. Ludwig Wittgenstein42
  75. Indira Gandhi14
  76. Huang Xianfan32
  77. Enrico Fermi30
  78. Naguib Mahfouz20
  79. Nikita Khrushchev37
  80. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry31
  81. Anne Frank2
  82. H. G. Wells65
  83. Helen Keller51
  84. Pablo Neruda27
  85. Igor Stravinsky49
  86. David Hilbert69
  87. Thomas Mann56
  88. Erwin Schrödinger44
  89. Herbert Hoover57
  90. Hermann Hesse54
  91. Isaac Asimov11–12
  92. Ingmar Bergman13
  93. Federico Fellini11
  94. Mahathir Mohamad6
  95. Calvin Coolidge59
  96. Boris Yeltsinborn
  97. Kim Il-sung19
  98. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn13
  99. T. S. Eliot43
  100. Stanley Kubrick3
  101. Kahlil Gibran48 †
  102. Kwame Nkrumah22
  103. Marlon Brando7
  104. Hirohito30
  105. Richard Feynman13
  106. Selma Lagerlöf73
  107. Bertolt Brecht33
  108. William Butler Yeats66
  109. Yasser Arafat2
  110. Ho Chi Minh41
  111. Judy Garland9
  112. Carl Jung56
  113. Vladimir Nabokov32
  114. Hebe Camargo2
  115. Eleanor Roosevelt47
  116. B. R. Ambedkar40
  117. Audrey Hepburn2
  118. Martin Heidegger42
  119. John Steinbeck29
  120. Konrad Adenauer55

The 120 best known of 553 are listed.