Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1893?

349 of the people we track were surely alive in 1893. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1893: Mao Zedong, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Hermann Göring, Mae West, Joan Miró, Lillian Gish and Jomo Kenyatta.

Died in 1893: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Guy de Maupassant and Rutherford B. Hayes.

  1. Adolf Hitler4
  2. Albert Einstein14
  3. Vladimir Lenin23
  4. Mahatma Gandhi24
  5. Leo Tolstoy65
  6. Joseph Stalin15
  7. Pablo Picasso12
  8. Winston Churchill19
  9. Charlie Chaplin4
  10. Friedrich Nietzsche49
  11. Thomas Edison46
  12. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk12–14
  13. Mark Twain58
  14. Sigmund Freud37
  15. Marie Curie26
  16. Rabindranath Tagore32
  17. Franklin Delano Roosevelt11
  18. Franz Kafka10
  19. Anton Chekhov33
  20. Mao Zedongborn
  21. Oscar Wilde39
  22. Charles de Gaulle3
  23. Otto von Bismarck78
  24. Nikola Tesla37
  25. Louis Pasteur71
  26. James Joyce11
  27. J. R. R. Tolkien1
  28. Henry Ford30
  29. Benito Mussolini10
  30. Friedrich Engels73
  31. Le Corbusier6
  32. Harry S. Truman9
  33. Agatha Christie3
  34. Sarah Bernhardt49
  35. Alfred Nobel60
  36. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky53 †
  37. Theodore Roosevelt35
  38. Jawaharlal Nehru4
  39. Marcel Proust22
  40. Dwight D. Eisenhower3
  41. Jules Verne65
  42. Woodrow Wilson37
  43. Rosa Luxemburg22
  44. Roald Amundsen21
  45. Rudyard Kipling28
  46. George Bernard Shaw37
  47. John Maynard Keynes10
  48. Niels Bohr8
  49. Bertrand Russell21
  50. Leon Trotsky14
  51. Max Planck35
  52. Arthur Conan Doyle34
  53. Maxim Gorky25
  54. Henri Matisse24
  55. Giuseppe Verdi80
  56. Dmitri Mendeleev59
  57. Frank Lloyd Wright26
  58. Virginia Woolf11
  59. Victoria74
  60. Ernest Rutherford22
  61. Ludwig Wittgenstein4
  62. Max Weber29
  63. Henrik Ibsen65
  64. H. G. Wells27
  65. Helen Keller13
  66. Émile Zola53
  67. Igor Stravinsky11
  68. David Hilbert31
  69. Thomas Mann18
  70. Erwin Schrödinger6
  71. Herbert Hoover19
  72. Hermann Hesse16
  73. Johannes Brahms60
  74. Anatole France49
  75. Alexander Graham Bell46
  76. Octave Mirbeau45
  77. Calvin Coolidge21
  78. T. S. Eliot5
  79. Kahlil Gibran10
  80. Lewis Carroll61
  81. Wilhelm Röntgen48
  82. Claude Monet53
  83. Guy de Maupassant42 †
  84. Selma Lagerlöf35
  85. Robert Louis Stevenson43
  86. William Butler Yeats28
  87. Ho Chi Minh3
  88. Sun Yat-sen27
  89. Carl Jung18
  90. Florence Nightingale73
  91. Antonín Dvořák52
  92. Gustav Mahler33
  93. Eleanor Roosevelt9
  94. B. R. Ambedkar2
  95. Martin Heidegger4
  96. William Howard Taft36
  97. Giacomo Puccini35
  98. Konrad Adenauer17
  99. Grover Cleveland56
  100. Jack London17
  101. André Gide24
  102. William McKinley50
  103. Pearl S. Buck1
  104. L. L. Zamenhof34
  105. Warren G. Harding28
  106. Boris Pasternak3
  107. Romain Rolland27
  108. Rutherford B. Hayes70 †
  109. Paul Cézanne54
  110. Henryk Sienkiewicz47
  111. Henri Bergson34
  112. Chiang Kai-shek6
  113. Swami Vivekananda30
  114. Nicholas II of Russia25
  115. John XXIII12
  116. Benjamin Harrison60
  117. Knut Hamsun34
  118. Alexander Fleming12
  119. Luigi Pirandello26
  120. Rainer Maria Rilke18

The 120 best known of 349 are listed.