Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1938?

594 of the people we track were surely alive in 1938. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1938: Kofi Annan, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Juan Carlos I of Spain, Vladimir Vysotsky, Beatrix of the Netherlands, Jon Voight, Donald Knuth and Islam Karimov.

Died in 1938: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Muhammad Iqbal, Karel Čapek, Gabriele D'Annunzio and Edmund Husserl.

  1. Adolf Hitler49
  2. Albert Einstein59
  3. Ronald Reagan27
  4. Nelson Mandela20
  5. Mahatma Gandhi69
  6. Joseph Stalin60
  7. Pablo Picasso57
  8. Winston Churchill64
  9. Charlie Chaplin49
  10. Elizabeth II12
  11. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk†
  12. Sigmund Freud82
  13. John F. Kennedy21
  14. Martin Luther King Jr.9
  15. Salvador Dalí34
  16. Rabindranath Tagore77
  17. Franklin Delano Roosevelt56
  18. Marilyn Monroe12
  19. Pope Francis2
  20. Mao Zedong45
  21. Che Guevara10
  22. Charles de Gaulle48
  23. Nikola Tesla82
  24. Neil Armstrong8
  25. Walt Disney37
  26. Elvis Presley3
  27. George Orwell35
  28. Ernest Hemingway39
  29. Margaret Thatcher13
  30. James Joyce56
  31. John Paul II18
  32. Gabriel García Márquez11
  33. Fidel Castro12
  34. J. R. R. Tolkien46
  35. Albert Camus25
  36. Yuri Gagarin4
  37. Henry Ford75
  38. Marlene Dietrich37
  39. Mikhail Gorbachev7
  40. Benito Mussolini55
  41. Jean-Paul Sartre33
  42. Le Corbusier51
  43. Frida Kahlo31
  44. Mother Teresa28
  45. Jimmy Carter14
  46. Benedict XVI11
  47. Harry S. Truman54
  48. Agatha Christie48
  49. George H. W. Bush14
  50. Jorge Luis Borges39
  51. Jawaharlal Nehru49
  52. Dwight D. Eisenhower48
  53. Alan Turing26
  54. Richard Nixon25
  55. Alfred Hitchcock39
  56. Noam Chomsky10
  57. Simone de Beauvoir30
  58. George Bernard Shaw82
  59. John Maynard Keynes55
  60. Niels Bohr53
  61. Bertrand Russell66
  62. Leon Trotsky59
  63. Max Planck80
  64. Henri Matisse69
  65. Frank Lloyd Wright71
  66. Andy Warhol10
  67. Louis Armstrong37
  68. Kofi Annanborn
  69. Virginia Woolf56
  70. Akira Kurosawa28
  71. Lyndon B. Johnson30
  72. Gerald Ford25
  73. Ludwig Wittgenstein49
  74. Indira Gandhi21
  75. Huang Xianfan39
  76. Enrico Fermi37
  77. Naguib Mahfouz27
  78. Nikita Khrushchev44
  79. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry38
  80. Anne Frank9
  81. Saddam Hussein1
  82. H. G. Wells72
  83. Helen Keller58
  84. Tenzin Gyatso3
  85. Pablo Neruda34
  86. Igor Stravinsky56
  87. David Hilbert76
  88. Thomas Mann63
  89. Erwin Schrödinger51
  90. Silvio Berlusconi2
  91. Herbert Hoover64
  92. Hermann Hesse61
  93. Isaac Asimov18–19
  94. Ingmar Bergman20
  95. Federico Fellini18
  96. Mahathir Mohamad13
  97. Boris Yeltsin7
  98. Kim Il-sung26
  99. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn20
  100. Jacques Chirac6
  101. T. S. Eliot50
  102. Stanley Kubrick10
  103. Kwame Nkrumah29
  104. Marlon Brando14
  105. Hirohito37
  106. Richard Feynman20
  107. Woody Allen3
  108. Selma Lagerlöf80
  109. Bertolt Brecht40
  110. William Butler Yeats73
  111. Yasser Arafat9
  112. Ho Chi Minh48
  113. Judy Garland16
  114. Carl Jung63
  115. Brigitte Bardot4
  116. Vladimir Nabokov39
  117. Hebe Camargo9
  118. Umberto Eco6
  119. Eleanor Roosevelt54
  120. B. R. Ambedkar47

The 120 best known of 594 are listed.