Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1888?

315 of the people we track were surely alive in 1888. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1888: T. S. Eliot, Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, Eugene O'Neill, Fernando Pessoa, Dale Carnegie and T. E. Lawrence.

Died in 1888: Louisa May Alcott and Wilhelm I.

  1. Albert Einstein9
  2. Vladimir Lenin18
  3. Mahatma Gandhi19
  4. Leo Tolstoy60
  5. Joseph Stalin10
  6. Vincent van Gogh35
  7. Pablo Picasso7
  8. Winston Churchill14
  9. Friedrich Nietzsche44
  10. Thomas Edison41
  11. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk7–9
  12. Mark Twain53
  13. Sigmund Freud32
  14. Marie Curie21
  15. Rabindranath Tagore27
  16. Franklin Delano Roosevelt6
  17. Franz Kafka5
  18. Anton Chekhov28
  19. Oscar Wilde34
  20. Otto von Bismarck73
  21. Nikola Tesla32
  22. Louis Pasteur66
  23. James Joyce6
  24. Henry Ford25
  25. Benito Mussolini5
  26. Friedrich Engels68
  27. Le Corbusier1
  28. Harry S. Truman4
  29. Sarah Bernhardt44
  30. Alfred Nobel55
  31. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky48
  32. Theodore Roosevelt30
  33. Marcel Proust17
  34. Jules Verne60
  35. Woodrow Wilson32
  36. Rosa Luxemburg17
  37. Roald Amundsen16
  38. Rudyard Kipling23
  39. George Bernard Shaw32
  40. John Maynard Keynes5
  41. Niels Bohr3
  42. Bertrand Russell16
  43. Leon Trotsky9
  44. Max Planck30
  45. Arthur Conan Doyle29
  46. Maxim Gorky20
  47. Henri Matisse19
  48. Giuseppe Verdi75
  49. Dmitri Mendeleev54
  50. Frank Lloyd Wright21
  51. Virginia Woolf6
  52. Victoria69
  53. Ernest Rutherford17
  54. Max Weber24
  55. Henrik Ibsen60
  56. H. G. Wells22
  57. Helen Keller8
  58. Émile Zola48
  59. Igor Stravinsky6
  60. David Hilbert26
  61. Thomas Mann13
  62. Erwin Schrödinger1
  63. Herbert Hoover14
  64. Hermann Hesse11
  65. Johannes Brahms55
  66. Anatole France44
  67. Alexander Graham Bell41
  68. Octave Mirbeau40
  69. Calvin Coolidge16
  70. T. S. Eliotborn
  71. Kahlil Gibran5
  72. Lewis Carroll56
  73. Wilhelm Röntgen43
  74. Claude Monet48
  75. Guy de Maupassant38
  76. Selma Lagerlöf30
  77. Robert Louis Stevenson38
  78. William Butler Yeats23
  79. Sun Yat-sen22
  80. Carl Jung13
  81. Florence Nightingale68
  82. Antonín Dvořák47
  83. Gustav Mahler28
  84. Walt Whitman69
  85. Eleanor Roosevelt4
  86. William Howard Taft31
  87. Giacomo Puccini30
  88. Konrad Adenauer12
  89. Grover Cleveland51
  90. Jack London12
  91. Arthur Rimbaud34
  92. André Gide19
  93. William McKinley45
  94. L. L. Zamenhof29
  95. Warren G. Harding23
  96. Romain Rolland22
  97. Rutherford B. Hayes66
  98. Paul Cézanne49
  99. Henryk Sienkiewicz42
  100. Henri Bergson29
  101. Chiang Kai-shek1
  102. Swami Vivekananda25
  103. Nicholas II of Russia20
  104. John XXIII7
  105. Benjamin Harrison55
  106. James Prescott Joule70
  107. Knut Hamsun29
  108. Alexander Fleming7
  109. Luigi Pirandello21
  110. Rainer Maria Rilke13
  111. David Ben-Gurion2
  112. Paul Gauguin40
  113. Maurice Maeterlinck26
  114. Herman Melville69
  115. Auguste Rodin48
  116. Antoni Gaudí36
  117. Henri Poincaré34
  118. Pierre Curie29
  119. Claude Debussy26
  120. Wilhelm II29

The 120 best known of 315 are listed.