Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1934?

583 of the people we track were surely alive in 1934. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1934: Yuri Gagarin, Brigitte Bardot, Carl Sagan, Sophia Loren, Leonard Cohen, Jane Goodall, Wole Soyinka and Maggie Smith.

Died in 1934: Marie Curie, Paul von Hindenburg, Fritz Haber and Santiago Ramón y Cajal.

  1. Adolf Hitler45
  2. Albert Einstein55
  3. Ronald Reagan23
  4. Nelson Mandela16
  5. Mahatma Gandhi65
  6. Joseph Stalin56
  7. Pablo Picasso53
  8. Winston Churchill60
  9. Charlie Chaplin45
  10. Elizabeth II8
  11. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk53–55
  12. Sigmund Freud78
  13. John F. Kennedy17
  14. Marie Curie66 †
  15. Martin Luther King Jr.5
  16. Salvador Dalí30
  17. Rabindranath Tagore73
  18. Franklin Delano Roosevelt52
  19. Marilyn Monroe8
  20. Mao Zedong41
  21. Che Guevara6
  22. Charles de Gaulle44
  23. Nikola Tesla78
  24. Neil Armstrong4
  25. Walt Disney33
  26. George Orwell31
  27. Ernest Hemingway35
  28. Margaret Thatcher9
  29. James Joyce52
  30. John Paul II14
  31. Gabriel García Márquez7
  32. Fidel Castro8
  33. J. R. R. Tolkien42
  34. Albert Camus21
  35. Yuri Gagarinborn
  36. Henry Ford71
  37. Marlene Dietrich33
  38. Mikhail Gorbachev3
  39. Benito Mussolini51
  40. Jean-Paul Sartre29
  41. Le Corbusier47
  42. Frida Kahlo27
  43. Mother Teresa24
  44. Jimmy Carter10
  45. Benedict XVI7
  46. Harry S. Truman50
  47. Agatha Christie44
  48. George H. W. Bush10
  49. Jorge Luis Borges35
  50. Jawaharlal Nehru45
  51. Dwight D. Eisenhower44
  52. Alan Turing22
  53. Richard Nixon21
  54. Rudyard Kipling69
  55. Alfred Hitchcock35
  56. Noam Chomsky6
  57. Simone de Beauvoir26
  58. George Bernard Shaw78
  59. John Maynard Keynes51
  60. Niels Bohr49
  61. Bertrand Russell62
  62. Leon Trotsky55
  63. Max Planck76
  64. Maxim Gorky66
  65. Henri Matisse65
  66. Frank Lloyd Wright67
  67. Andy Warhol6
  68. Louis Armstrong33
  69. Virginia Woolf52
  70. Akira Kurosawa24
  71. Lyndon B. Johnson26
  72. Gerald Ford21
  73. Ernest Rutherford63
  74. Ludwig Wittgenstein45
  75. Indira Gandhi17
  76. Huang Xianfan35
  77. Enrico Fermi33
  78. Naguib Mahfouz23
  79. Nikita Khrushchev40
  80. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry34
  81. Anne Frank5
  82. H. G. Wells68
  83. Helen Keller54
  84. Pablo Neruda30
  85. Igor Stravinsky52
  86. David Hilbert72
  87. Thomas Mann59
  88. Erwin Schrödinger47
  89. Herbert Hoover60
  90. Hermann Hesse57
  91. Isaac Asimov14–15
  92. Ingmar Bergman16
  93. Federico Fellini14
  94. Mahathir Mohamad9
  95. Boris Yeltsin3
  96. Kim Il-sung22
  97. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn16
  98. Jacques Chirac2
  99. T. S. Eliot46
  100. Stanley Kubrick6
  101. Kwame Nkrumah25
  102. Marlon Brando10
  103. Hirohito33
  104. Richard Feynman16
  105. Selma Lagerlöf76
  106. Bertolt Brecht36
  107. William Butler Yeats69
  108. Yasser Arafat5
  109. Ho Chi Minh44
  110. Judy Garland12
  111. Carl Jung59
  112. Brigitte Bardotborn
  113. Vladimir Nabokov35
  114. Hebe Camargo5
  115. Umberto Eco2
  116. Eleanor Roosevelt50
  117. B. R. Ambedkar43
  118. Audrey Hepburn5
  119. Martin Heidegger45
  120. John Steinbeck32

The 120 best known of 583 are listed.