Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1885?

307 of the people we track were surely alive in 1885. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1885: Niels Bohr, Sinclair Lewis, François Mauriac, Ezra Pound, D. H. Lawrence and Karen Blixen.

Died in 1885: Victor Hugo and Ulysses S. Grant.

  1. Albert Einstein6
  2. Vladimir Lenin15
  3. Mahatma Gandhi16
  4. Leo Tolstoy57
  5. Joseph Stalin7
  6. Victor Hugo83 †
  7. Vincent van Gogh32
  8. Pablo Picasso4
  9. Winston Churchill11
  10. Friedrich Nietzsche41
  11. Thomas Edison38
  12. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk4–6
  13. Mark Twain50
  14. Sigmund Freud29
  15. Marie Curie18
  16. Rabindranath Tagore24
  17. Franklin Delano Roosevelt3
  18. Franz Kafka2
  19. Anton Chekhov25
  20. Oscar Wilde31
  21. Otto von Bismarck70
  22. Nikola Tesla29
  23. Louis Pasteur63
  24. James Joyce3
  25. Henry Ford22
  26. Benito Mussolini2
  27. Friedrich Engels65
  28. Harry S. Truman1
  29. Sarah Bernhardt41
  30. Alfred Nobel52
  31. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky45
  32. Theodore Roosevelt27
  33. Marcel Proust14
  34. Jules Verne57
  35. Woodrow Wilson29
  36. Rosa Luxemburg14
  37. Roald Amundsen13
  38. Rudyard Kipling20
  39. George Bernard Shaw29
  40. John Maynard Keynes2
  41. Niels Bohrborn
  42. Bertrand Russell13
  43. Leon Trotsky6
  44. Max Planck27
  45. Arthur Conan Doyle26
  46. Maxim Gorky17
  47. Henri Matisse16
  48. Giuseppe Verdi72
  49. Dmitri Mendeleev51
  50. Frank Lloyd Wright18
  51. Virginia Woolf3
  52. Victoria66
  53. Ernest Rutherford14
  54. Max Weber21
  55. Henrik Ibsen57
  56. H. G. Wells19
  57. Helen Keller5
  58. Émile Zola45
  59. Igor Stravinsky3
  60. David Hilbert23
  61. Thomas Mann10
  62. Herbert Hoover11
  63. Hermann Hesse8
  64. Johannes Brahms52
  65. Anatole France41
  66. Alexander Graham Bell38
  67. Octave Mirbeau37
  68. Calvin Coolidge13
  69. Ulysses S. Grant63 †
  70. Kahlil Gibran2
  71. Lewis Carroll53
  72. Wilhelm Röntgen40
  73. Claude Monet45
  74. Guy de Maupassant35
  75. Selma Lagerlöf27
  76. Robert Louis Stevenson35
  77. William Butler Yeats20
  78. Sun Yat-sen19
  79. Carl Jung10
  80. Florence Nightingale65
  81. Antonín Dvořák44
  82. Gustav Mahler25
  83. Walt Whitman66
  84. Eleanor Roosevelt1
  85. Emily Dickinson55
  86. William Howard Taft28
  87. Giacomo Puccini27
  88. Konrad Adenauer9
  89. Grover Cleveland48
  90. Jack London9
  91. Arthur Rimbaud31
  92. André Gide16
  93. William McKinley42
  94. L. L. Zamenhof26
  95. Warren G. Harding20
  96. Romain Rolland19
  97. Rutherford B. Hayes63
  98. Paul Cézanne46
  99. Henryk Sienkiewicz39
  100. Henri Bergson26
  101. Swami Vivekananda22
  102. Nicholas II of Russia17
  103. John XXIII4
  104. Benjamin Harrison52
  105. James Prescott Joule67
  106. Knut Hamsun26
  107. Alexander Fleming4
  108. Luigi Pirandello18
  109. Rainer Maria Rilke10
  110. Paul Gauguin37
  111. Chester A. Arthur56
  112. Maurice Maeterlinck23
  113. Herman Melville66
  114. Auguste Rodin45
  115. Antoni Gaudí33
  116. Henri Poincaré31
  117. Pierre Curie26
  118. Claude Debussy23
  119. Wilhelm II26
  120. Guglielmo Marconi11

The 120 best known of 307 are listed.