Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1887?

311 of the people we track were surely alive in 1887. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1887: Le Corbusier, Erwin Schrödinger, Chiang Kai-shek, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Marc Chagall, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Georgia O'Keeffe and Saint-John Perse.

Died in 1887: Gustav Kirchhoff and Alexander Borodin.

  1. Albert Einstein8
  2. Vladimir Lenin17
  3. Mahatma Gandhi18
  4. Leo Tolstoy59
  5. Joseph Stalin9
  6. Vincent van Gogh34
  7. Pablo Picasso6
  8. Winston Churchill13
  9. Friedrich Nietzsche43
  10. Thomas Edison40
  11. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk6–8
  12. Mark Twain52
  13. Sigmund Freud31
  14. Marie Curie20
  15. Rabindranath Tagore26
  16. Franklin Delano Roosevelt5
  17. Franz Kafka4
  18. Anton Chekhov27
  19. Oscar Wilde33
  20. Otto von Bismarck72
  21. Nikola Tesla31
  22. Louis Pasteur65
  23. James Joyce5
  24. Henry Ford24
  25. Benito Mussolini4
  26. Friedrich Engels67
  27. Le Corbusierborn
  28. Harry S. Truman3
  29. Sarah Bernhardt43
  30. Alfred Nobel54
  31. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky47
  32. Theodore Roosevelt29
  33. Marcel Proust16
  34. Jules Verne59
  35. Woodrow Wilson31
  36. Rosa Luxemburg16
  37. Roald Amundsen15
  38. Rudyard Kipling22
  39. George Bernard Shaw31
  40. John Maynard Keynes4
  41. Niels Bohr2
  42. Bertrand Russell15
  43. Leon Trotsky8
  44. Max Planck29
  45. Arthur Conan Doyle28
  46. Maxim Gorky19
  47. Henri Matisse18
  48. Giuseppe Verdi74
  49. Dmitri Mendeleev53
  50. Frank Lloyd Wright20
  51. Virginia Woolf5
  52. Victoria68
  53. Ernest Rutherford16
  54. Max Weber23
  55. Henrik Ibsen59
  56. H. G. Wells21
  57. Helen Keller7
  58. Émile Zola47
  59. Igor Stravinsky5
  60. David Hilbert25
  61. Thomas Mann12
  62. Erwin Schrödingerborn
  63. Herbert Hoover13
  64. Hermann Hesse10
  65. Johannes Brahms54
  66. Anatole France43
  67. Alexander Graham Bell40
  68. Octave Mirbeau39
  69. Calvin Coolidge15
  70. Kahlil Gibran4
  71. Lewis Carroll55
  72. Wilhelm Röntgen42
  73. Claude Monet47
  74. Guy de Maupassant37
  75. Selma Lagerlöf29
  76. Robert Louis Stevenson37
  77. William Butler Yeats22
  78. Sun Yat-sen21
  79. Carl Jung12
  80. Florence Nightingale67
  81. Antonín Dvořák46
  82. Gustav Mahler27
  83. Walt Whitman68
  84. Eleanor Roosevelt3
  85. William Howard Taft30
  86. Giacomo Puccini29
  87. Konrad Adenauer11
  88. Grover Cleveland50
  89. Jack London11
  90. Arthur Rimbaud33
  91. André Gide18
  92. William McKinley44
  93. L. L. Zamenhof28
  94. Warren G. Harding22
  95. Romain Rolland21
  96. Rutherford B. Hayes65
  97. Paul Cézanne48
  98. Henryk Sienkiewicz41
  99. Henri Bergson28
  100. Chiang Kai-shekborn
  101. Swami Vivekananda24
  102. Nicholas II of Russia19
  103. John XXIII6
  104. Benjamin Harrison54
  105. James Prescott Joule69
  106. Knut Hamsun28
  107. Alexander Fleming6
  108. Luigi Pirandello20
  109. Rainer Maria Rilke12
  110. David Ben-Gurion1
  111. Paul Gauguin39
  112. Maurice Maeterlinck25
  113. Herman Melville68
  114. Auguste Rodin47
  115. Antoni Gaudí35
  116. Henri Poincaré33
  117. Pierre Curie28
  118. Claude Debussy25
  119. Wilhelm II28
  120. Guglielmo Marconi13

The 120 best known of 311 are listed.