Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1936?

593 of the people we track were surely alive in 1936. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1936: Pope Francis, Silvio Berlusconi, Václav Havel, John McCain, Mario Vargas Llosa, Robert Redford, Sepp Blatter and F. W. de Klerk.

Died in 1936: Rudyard Kipling, Maxim Gorky, Federico García Lorca, Luigi Pirandello, Lu Xun, Ivan Pavlov, Grazia Deledda and G. K. Chesterton.

  1. Adolf Hitler47
  2. Albert Einstein57
  3. Ronald Reagan25
  4. Nelson Mandela18
  5. Mahatma Gandhi67
  6. Joseph Stalin58
  7. Pablo Picasso55
  8. Winston Churchill62
  9. Charlie Chaplin47
  10. Elizabeth II10
  11. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk55–57
  12. Sigmund Freud80
  13. John F. Kennedy19
  14. Martin Luther King Jr.7
  15. Salvador Dalí32
  16. Rabindranath Tagore75
  17. Franklin Delano Roosevelt54
  18. Marilyn Monroe10
  19. Pope Francisborn
  20. Mao Zedong43
  21. Che Guevara8
  22. Charles de Gaulle46
  23. Nikola Tesla80
  24. Neil Armstrong6
  25. Walt Disney35
  26. Elvis Presley1
  27. George Orwell33
  28. Ernest Hemingway37
  29. Margaret Thatcher11
  30. James Joyce54
  31. John Paul II16
  32. Gabriel García Márquez9
  33. Fidel Castro10
  34. J. R. R. Tolkien44
  35. Albert Camus23
  36. Yuri Gagarin2
  37. Henry Ford73
  38. Marlene Dietrich35
  39. Mikhail Gorbachev5
  40. Benito Mussolini53
  41. Jean-Paul Sartre31
  42. Le Corbusier49
  43. Frida Kahlo29
  44. Mother Teresa26
  45. Jimmy Carter12
  46. Benedict XVI9
  47. Harry S. Truman52
  48. Agatha Christie46
  49. George H. W. Bush12
  50. Jorge Luis Borges37
  51. Jawaharlal Nehru47
  52. Dwight D. Eisenhower46
  53. Alan Turing24
  54. Richard Nixon23
  55. Rudyard Kipling70 †
  56. Alfred Hitchcock37
  57. Noam Chomsky8
  58. Simone de Beauvoir28
  59. George Bernard Shaw80
  60. John Maynard Keynes53
  61. Niels Bohr51
  62. Bertrand Russell64
  63. Leon Trotsky57
  64. Max Planck78
  65. Maxim Gorky68 †
  66. Henri Matisse67
  67. Frank Lloyd Wright69
  68. Andy Warhol8
  69. Louis Armstrong35
  70. Virginia Woolf54
  71. Akira Kurosawa26
  72. Lyndon B. Johnson28
  73. Gerald Ford23
  74. Ernest Rutherford65
  75. Ludwig Wittgenstein47
  76. Indira Gandhi19
  77. Huang Xianfan37
  78. Enrico Fermi35
  79. Naguib Mahfouz25
  80. Nikita Khrushchev42
  81. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry36
  82. Anne Frank7
  83. H. G. Wells70
  84. Helen Keller56
  85. Tenzin Gyatso1
  86. Pablo Neruda32
  87. Igor Stravinsky54
  88. David Hilbert74
  89. Thomas Mann61
  90. Erwin Schrödinger49
  91. Silvio Berlusconiborn
  92. Herbert Hoover62
  93. Hermann Hesse59
  94. Isaac Asimov16–17
  95. Ingmar Bergman18
  96. Federico Fellini16
  97. Mahathir Mohamad11
  98. Boris Yeltsin5
  99. Kim Il-sung24
  100. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn18
  101. Jacques Chirac4
  102. T. S. Eliot48
  103. Stanley Kubrick8
  104. Kwame Nkrumah27
  105. Marlon Brando12
  106. Hirohito35
  107. Richard Feynman18
  108. Woody Allen1
  109. Selma Lagerlöf78
  110. Bertolt Brecht38
  111. William Butler Yeats71
  112. Yasser Arafat7
  113. Ho Chi Minh46
  114. Judy Garland14
  115. Carl Jung61
  116. Brigitte Bardot2
  117. Vladimir Nabokov37
  118. Hebe Camargo7
  119. Umberto Eco4
  120. Eleanor Roosevelt52

The 120 best known of 593 are listed.