Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1886?

306 of the people we track were surely alive in 1886. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1886: David Ben-Gurion.

Died in 1886: Emily Dickinson, Chester A. Arthur, Franz Liszt and Ramakrishna.

  1. Albert Einstein7
  2. Vladimir Lenin16
  3. Mahatma Gandhi17
  4. Leo Tolstoy58
  5. Joseph Stalin8
  6. Vincent van Gogh33
  7. Pablo Picasso5
  8. Winston Churchill12
  9. Friedrich Nietzsche42
  10. Thomas Edison39
  11. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk5–7
  12. Mark Twain51
  13. Sigmund Freud30
  14. Marie Curie19
  15. Rabindranath Tagore25
  16. Franklin Delano Roosevelt4
  17. Franz Kafka3
  18. Anton Chekhov26
  19. Oscar Wilde32
  20. Otto von Bismarck71
  21. Nikola Tesla30
  22. Louis Pasteur64
  23. James Joyce4
  24. Henry Ford23
  25. Benito Mussolini3
  26. Friedrich Engels66
  27. Harry S. Truman2
  28. Sarah Bernhardt42
  29. Alfred Nobel53
  30. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky46
  31. Theodore Roosevelt28
  32. Marcel Proust15
  33. Jules Verne58
  34. Woodrow Wilson30
  35. Rosa Luxemburg15
  36. Roald Amundsen14
  37. Rudyard Kipling21
  38. George Bernard Shaw30
  39. John Maynard Keynes3
  40. Niels Bohr1
  41. Bertrand Russell14
  42. Leon Trotsky7
  43. Max Planck28
  44. Arthur Conan Doyle27
  45. Maxim Gorky18
  46. Henri Matisse17
  47. Giuseppe Verdi73
  48. Dmitri Mendeleev52
  49. Frank Lloyd Wright19
  50. Virginia Woolf4
  51. Victoria67
  52. Ernest Rutherford15
  53. Max Weber22
  54. Henrik Ibsen58
  55. H. G. Wells20
  56. Helen Keller6
  57. Émile Zola46
  58. Igor Stravinsky4
  59. David Hilbert24
  60. Thomas Mann11
  61. Herbert Hoover12
  62. Hermann Hesse9
  63. Johannes Brahms53
  64. Anatole France42
  65. Alexander Graham Bell39
  66. Octave Mirbeau38
  67. Calvin Coolidge14
  68. Kahlil Gibran3
  69. Lewis Carroll54
  70. Wilhelm Röntgen41
  71. Claude Monet46
  72. Guy de Maupassant36
  73. Selma Lagerlöf28
  74. Robert Louis Stevenson36
  75. William Butler Yeats21
  76. Sun Yat-sen20
  77. Carl Jung11
  78. Florence Nightingale66
  79. Antonín Dvořák45
  80. Gustav Mahler26
  81. Walt Whitman67
  82. Eleanor Roosevelt2
  83. Emily Dickinson55 †
  84. William Howard Taft29
  85. Giacomo Puccini28
  86. Konrad Adenauer10
  87. Grover Cleveland49
  88. Jack London10
  89. Arthur Rimbaud32
  90. André Gide17
  91. William McKinley43
  92. L. L. Zamenhof27
  93. Warren G. Harding21
  94. Romain Rolland20
  95. Rutherford B. Hayes64
  96. Paul Cézanne47
  97. Henryk Sienkiewicz40
  98. Henri Bergson27
  99. Swami Vivekananda23
  100. Nicholas II of Russia18
  101. John XXIII5
  102. Benjamin Harrison53
  103. James Prescott Joule68
  104. Knut Hamsun27
  105. Alexander Fleming5
  106. Luigi Pirandello19
  107. Rainer Maria Rilke11
  108. David Ben-Gurionborn
  109. Paul Gauguin38
  110. Chester A. Arthur57 †
  111. Maurice Maeterlinck24
  112. Herman Melville67
  113. Auguste Rodin46
  114. Antoni Gaudí34
  115. Henri Poincaré32
  116. Pierre Curie27
  117. Claude Debussy24
  118. Wilhelm II27
  119. Guglielmo Marconi12
  120. Joseph Conrad29

The 120 best known of 306 are listed.