Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1883?

305 of the people we track were surely alive in 1883. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1883: Franz Kafka, Benito Mussolini, John Maynard Keynes, Kahlil Gibran, Coco Chanel, Clement Attlee, Karl Jaspers and Jaroslav Hašek.

Died in 1883: Karl Marx, Richard Wagner, Ivan Turgenev and Édouard Manet.

  1. Albert Einstein4
  2. Karl Marx64 †
  3. Vladimir Lenin13
  4. Mahatma Gandhi14
  5. Leo Tolstoy55
  6. Joseph Stalin5
  7. Victor Hugo81
  8. Vincent van Gogh30
  9. Pablo Picasso2
  10. Winston Churchill9
  11. Friedrich Nietzsche39
  12. Thomas Edison36
  13. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk2–4
  14. Mark Twain48
  15. Sigmund Freud27
  16. Marie Curie16
  17. Rabindranath Tagore22
  18. Franklin Delano Roosevelt1
  19. Franz Kafkaborn
  20. Anton Chekhov23
  21. Oscar Wilde29
  22. Otto von Bismarck68
  23. Nikola Tesla27
  24. Louis Pasteur61
  25. James Joyce1
  26. Richard Wagner69 †
  27. Henry Ford20
  28. Benito Mussoliniborn
  29. Friedrich Engels63
  30. Sarah Bernhardt39
  31. Alfred Nobel50
  32. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky43
  33. Theodore Roosevelt25
  34. Marcel Proust12
  35. Jules Verne55
  36. Woodrow Wilson27
  37. Rosa Luxemburg12
  38. Roald Amundsen11
  39. Rudyard Kipling18
  40. George Bernard Shaw27
  41. John Maynard Keynesborn
  42. Bertrand Russell11
  43. Leon Trotsky4
  44. Max Planck25
  45. Arthur Conan Doyle24
  46. Maxim Gorky15
  47. Henri Matisse14
  48. Giuseppe Verdi70
  49. Dmitri Mendeleev49
  50. Frank Lloyd Wright16
  51. Virginia Woolf1
  52. Victoria64
  53. Ernest Rutherford12
  54. Max Weber19
  55. Henrik Ibsen55
  56. H. G. Wells17
  57. Helen Keller3
  58. Émile Zola43
  59. Igor Stravinsky1
  60. David Hilbert21
  61. Thomas Mann8
  62. Herbert Hoover9
  63. Hermann Hesse6
  64. Johannes Brahms50
  65. Anatole France39
  66. Alexander Graham Bell36
  67. Octave Mirbeau35
  68. Calvin Coolidge11
  69. Ulysses S. Grant61
  70. Kahlil Gibranborn
  71. Lewis Carroll51
  72. Wilhelm Röntgen38
  73. Claude Monet43
  74. Guy de Maupassant33
  75. Selma Lagerlöf25
  76. Robert Louis Stevenson33
  77. William Butler Yeats18
  78. Ivan Turgenev64 †
  79. Sun Yat-sen17
  80. Carl Jung8
  81. Florence Nightingale63
  82. Antonín Dvořák42
  83. Gustav Mahler23
  84. Walt Whitman64
  85. Emily Dickinson53
  86. William Howard Taft26
  87. Giacomo Puccini25
  88. Konrad Adenauer7
  89. Grover Cleveland46
  90. Jack London7
  91. Arthur Rimbaud29
  92. André Gide14
  93. William McKinley40
  94. L. L. Zamenhof24
  95. Warren G. Harding18
  96. Romain Rolland17
  97. Rutherford B. Hayes61
  98. Paul Cézanne44
  99. Henryk Sienkiewicz37
  100. Henri Bergson24
  101. Swami Vivekananda20
  102. Nicholas II of Russia15
  103. John XXIII2
  104. Benjamin Harrison50
  105. James Prescott Joule65
  106. Knut Hamsun24
  107. Alexander Fleming2
  108. Gregor Mendel61
  109. Luigi Pirandello16
  110. Rainer Maria Rilke8
  111. Paul Gauguin35
  112. Chester A. Arthur54
  113. Maurice Maeterlinck21
  114. Herman Melville64
  115. Auguste Rodin43
  116. Antoni Gaudí31
  117. Henri Poincaré29
  118. Pierre Curie24
  119. Claude Debussy21
  120. Wilhelm II24

The 120 best known of 305 are listed.