Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1937?

596 of the people we track were surely alive in 1937. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1937: Saddam Hussein, Valentina Tereshkova, Jack Nicholson, Morgan Freeman, Jane Fonda, Anthony Hopkins, Madeleine Albright and Harald V of Norway.

Died in 1937: Ernest Rutherford, Guglielmo Marconi, Antonio Gramsci, H. P. Lovecraft, Pierre de Coubertin, Alfred Adler, Maurice Ravel and John D. Rockefeller.

  1. Adolf Hitler48
  2. Albert Einstein58
  3. Ronald Reagan26
  4. Nelson Mandela19
  5. Mahatma Gandhi68
  6. Joseph Stalin59
  7. Pablo Picasso56
  8. Winston Churchill63
  9. Charlie Chaplin48
  10. Elizabeth II11
  11. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk56–58
  12. Sigmund Freud81
  13. John F. Kennedy20
  14. Martin Luther King Jr.8
  15. Salvador Dalí33
  16. Rabindranath Tagore76
  17. Franklin Delano Roosevelt55
  18. Marilyn Monroe11
  19. Pope Francis1
  20. Mao Zedong44
  21. Che Guevara9
  22. Charles de Gaulle47
  23. Nikola Tesla81
  24. Neil Armstrong7
  25. Walt Disney36
  26. Elvis Presley2
  27. George Orwell34
  28. Ernest Hemingway38
  29. Margaret Thatcher12
  30. James Joyce55
  31. John Paul II17
  32. Gabriel García Márquez10
  33. Fidel Castro11
  34. J. R. R. Tolkien45
  35. Albert Camus24
  36. Yuri Gagarin3
  37. Henry Ford74
  38. Marlene Dietrich36
  39. Mikhail Gorbachev6
  40. Benito Mussolini54
  41. Jean-Paul Sartre32
  42. Le Corbusier50
  43. Frida Kahlo30
  44. Mother Teresa27
  45. Jimmy Carter13
  46. Benedict XVI10
  47. Harry S. Truman53
  48. Agatha Christie47
  49. George H. W. Bush13
  50. Jorge Luis Borges38
  51. Jawaharlal Nehru48
  52. Dwight D. Eisenhower47
  53. Alan Turing25
  54. Richard Nixon24
  55. Alfred Hitchcock38
  56. Noam Chomsky9
  57. Simone de Beauvoir29
  58. George Bernard Shaw81
  59. John Maynard Keynes54
  60. Niels Bohr52
  61. Bertrand Russell65
  62. Leon Trotsky58
  63. Max Planck79
  64. Henri Matisse68
  65. Frank Lloyd Wright70
  66. Andy Warhol9
  67. Louis Armstrong36
  68. Virginia Woolf55
  69. Akira Kurosawa27
  70. Lyndon B. Johnson29
  71. Gerald Ford24
  72. Ernest Rutherford66 †
  73. Ludwig Wittgenstein48
  74. Indira Gandhi20
  75. Huang Xianfan38
  76. Enrico Fermi36
  77. Naguib Mahfouz26
  78. Nikita Khrushchev43
  79. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry37
  80. Anne Frank8
  81. Saddam Husseinborn
  82. H. G. Wells71
  83. Helen Keller57
  84. Tenzin Gyatso2
  85. Pablo Neruda33
  86. Igor Stravinsky55
  87. David Hilbert75
  88. Thomas Mann62
  89. Erwin Schrödinger50
  90. Silvio Berlusconi1
  91. Herbert Hoover63
  92. Hermann Hesse60
  93. Isaac Asimov17–18
  94. Ingmar Bergman19
  95. Federico Fellini17
  96. Mahathir Mohamad12
  97. Boris Yeltsin6
  98. Kim Il-sung25
  99. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn19
  100. Jacques Chirac5
  101. T. S. Eliot49
  102. Stanley Kubrick9
  103. Kwame Nkrumah28
  104. Marlon Brando13
  105. Hirohito36
  106. Richard Feynman19
  107. Woody Allen2
  108. Selma Lagerlöf79
  109. Bertolt Brecht39
  110. William Butler Yeats72
  111. Yasser Arafat8
  112. Ho Chi Minh47
  113. Judy Garland15
  114. Carl Jung62
  115. Brigitte Bardot3
  116. Vladimir Nabokov38
  117. Hebe Camargo8
  118. Umberto Eco5
  119. Eleanor Roosevelt53
  120. B. R. Ambedkar46

The 120 best known of 596 are listed.