Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1933?

574 of the people we track were surely alive in 1933. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1933: Akihito, Roman Polanski, Michael Caine, Corazon Aquino, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Amartya Sen, Gene Wilder and James Brown.

Died in 1933: Calvin Coolidge, John Galsworthy and Clara Zetkin.

  1. Adolf Hitler44
  2. Albert Einstein54
  3. Ronald Reagan22
  4. Nelson Mandela15
  5. Mahatma Gandhi64
  6. Joseph Stalin55
  7. Pablo Picasso52
  8. Winston Churchill59
  9. Charlie Chaplin44
  10. Elizabeth II7
  11. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk52–54
  12. Sigmund Freud77
  13. John F. Kennedy16
  14. Marie Curie66
  15. Martin Luther King Jr.4
  16. Salvador Dalí29
  17. Rabindranath Tagore72
  18. Franklin Delano Roosevelt51
  19. Marilyn Monroe7
  20. Mao Zedong40
  21. Che Guevara5
  22. Charles de Gaulle43
  23. Nikola Tesla77
  24. Neil Armstrong3
  25. Walt Disney32
  26. George Orwell30
  27. Ernest Hemingway34
  28. Margaret Thatcher8
  29. James Joyce51
  30. John Paul II13
  31. Gabriel García Márquez6
  32. Fidel Castro7
  33. J. R. R. Tolkien41
  34. Albert Camus20
  35. Henry Ford70
  36. Marlene Dietrich32
  37. Mikhail Gorbachev2
  38. Benito Mussolini50
  39. Jean-Paul Sartre28
  40. Le Corbusier46
  41. Frida Kahlo26
  42. Mother Teresa23
  43. Jimmy Carter9
  44. Benedict XVI6
  45. Harry S. Truman49
  46. Agatha Christie43
  47. George H. W. Bush9
  48. Jorge Luis Borges34
  49. Jawaharlal Nehru44
  50. Dwight D. Eisenhower43
  51. Alan Turing21
  52. Richard Nixon20
  53. Rudyard Kipling68
  54. Alfred Hitchcock34
  55. Noam Chomsky5
  56. Simone de Beauvoir25
  57. George Bernard Shaw77
  58. John Maynard Keynes50
  59. Niels Bohr48
  60. Bertrand Russell61
  61. Leon Trotsky54
  62. Max Planck75
  63. Maxim Gorky65
  64. Henri Matisse64
  65. Frank Lloyd Wright66
  66. Andy Warhol5
  67. Louis Armstrong32
  68. Virginia Woolf51
  69. Akira Kurosawa23
  70. Lyndon B. Johnson25
  71. Gerald Ford20
  72. Ernest Rutherford62
  73. Ludwig Wittgenstein44
  74. Indira Gandhi16
  75. Huang Xianfan34
  76. Enrico Fermi32
  77. Naguib Mahfouz22
  78. Nikita Khrushchev39
  79. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry33
  80. Anne Frank4
  81. H. G. Wells67
  82. Helen Keller53
  83. Pablo Neruda29
  84. Igor Stravinsky51
  85. David Hilbert71
  86. Thomas Mann58
  87. Erwin Schrödinger46
  88. Herbert Hoover59
  89. Hermann Hesse56
  90. Isaac Asimov13–14
  91. Ingmar Bergman15
  92. Federico Fellini13
  93. Mahathir Mohamad8
  94. Calvin Coolidge60 †
  95. Boris Yeltsin2
  96. Kim Il-sung21
  97. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn15
  98. Jacques Chirac1
  99. T. S. Eliot45
  100. Stanley Kubrick5
  101. Kwame Nkrumah24
  102. Marlon Brando9
  103. Hirohito32
  104. Richard Feynman15
  105. Selma Lagerlöf75
  106. Bertolt Brecht35
  107. William Butler Yeats68
  108. Yasser Arafat4
  109. Ho Chi Minh43
  110. Judy Garland11
  111. Carl Jung58
  112. Vladimir Nabokov34
  113. Hebe Camargo4
  114. Umberto Eco1
  115. Eleanor Roosevelt49
  116. B. R. Ambedkar42
  117. Audrey Hepburn4
  118. Martin Heidegger44
  119. John Steinbeck31
  120. Konrad Adenauer57

The 120 best known of 574 are listed.