Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1890?

331 of the people we track were surely alive in 1890. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1890: Charles de Gaulle, Agatha Christie, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ho Chi Minh, Boris Pasternak, H. P. Lovecraft, Karel Čapek and Vyacheslav Molotov.

Died in 1890: Vincent van Gogh and Sitting Bull.

  1. Adolf Hitler1
  2. Albert Einstein11
  3. Vladimir Lenin20
  4. Mahatma Gandhi21
  5. Leo Tolstoy62
  6. Joseph Stalin12
  7. Vincent van Gogh37 †
  8. Pablo Picasso9
  9. Winston Churchill16
  10. Charlie Chaplin1
  11. Friedrich Nietzsche46
  12. Thomas Edison43
  13. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk9–11
  14. Mark Twain55
  15. Sigmund Freud34
  16. Marie Curie23
  17. Rabindranath Tagore29
  18. Franklin Delano Roosevelt8
  19. Franz Kafka7
  20. Anton Chekhov30
  21. Oscar Wilde36
  22. Charles de Gaulleborn
  23. Otto von Bismarck75
  24. Nikola Tesla34
  25. Louis Pasteur68
  26. James Joyce8
  27. Henry Ford27
  28. Benito Mussolini7
  29. Friedrich Engels70
  30. Le Corbusier3
  31. Harry S. Truman6
  32. Agatha Christieborn
  33. Sarah Bernhardt46
  34. Alfred Nobel57
  35. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky50
  36. Theodore Roosevelt32
  37. Jawaharlal Nehru1
  38. Marcel Proust19
  39. Dwight D. Eisenhowerborn
  40. Jules Verne62
  41. Woodrow Wilson34
  42. Rosa Luxemburg19
  43. Roald Amundsen18
  44. Rudyard Kipling25
  45. George Bernard Shaw34
  46. John Maynard Keynes7
  47. Niels Bohr5
  48. Bertrand Russell18
  49. Leon Trotsky11
  50. Max Planck32
  51. Arthur Conan Doyle31
  52. Maxim Gorky22
  53. Henri Matisse21
  54. Giuseppe Verdi77
  55. Dmitri Mendeleev56
  56. Frank Lloyd Wright23
  57. Virginia Woolf8
  58. Victoria71
  59. Ernest Rutherford19
  60. Ludwig Wittgenstein1
  61. Max Weber26
  62. Henrik Ibsen62
  63. H. G. Wells24
  64. Helen Keller10
  65. Émile Zola50
  66. Igor Stravinsky8
  67. David Hilbert28
  68. Thomas Mann15
  69. Erwin Schrödinger3
  70. Herbert Hoover16
  71. Hermann Hesse13
  72. Johannes Brahms57
  73. Anatole France46
  74. Alexander Graham Bell43
  75. Octave Mirbeau42
  76. Calvin Coolidge18
  77. T. S. Eliot2
  78. Kahlil Gibran7
  79. Lewis Carroll58
  80. Wilhelm Röntgen45
  81. Claude Monet50
  82. Guy de Maupassant40
  83. Selma Lagerlöf32
  84. Robert Louis Stevenson40
  85. William Butler Yeats25
  86. Ho Chi Minhborn
  87. Sun Yat-sen24
  88. Carl Jung15
  89. Florence Nightingale70
  90. Antonín Dvořák49
  91. Gustav Mahler30
  92. Walt Whitman71
  93. Eleanor Roosevelt6
  94. Martin Heidegger1
  95. William Howard Taft33
  96. Giacomo Puccini32
  97. Konrad Adenauer14
  98. Grover Cleveland53
  99. Jack London14
  100. Arthur Rimbaud36
  101. André Gide21
  102. William McKinley47
  103. L. L. Zamenhof31
  104. Warren G. Harding25
  105. Boris Pasternakborn
  106. Romain Rolland24
  107. Rutherford B. Hayes68
  108. Paul Cézanne51
  109. Henryk Sienkiewicz44
  110. Henri Bergson31
  111. Chiang Kai-shek3
  112. Swami Vivekananda27
  113. Nicholas II of Russia22
  114. John XXIII9
  115. Benjamin Harrison57
  116. Knut Hamsun31
  117. Alexander Fleming9
  118. Luigi Pirandello23
  119. Rainer Maria Rilke15
  120. David Ben-Gurion4

The 120 best known of 331 are listed.