Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1894?

353 of the people we track were surely alive in 1894. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1894: Nikita Khrushchev, Aldous Huxley, Edward VIII, Gavrilo Princip, Harold Macmillan, Louis-Ferdinand Céline and Pyotr Kapitsa.

Died in 1894: Robert Louis Stevenson, Heinrich Hertz and Alexander III of Russia.

  1. Adolf Hitler5
  2. Albert Einstein15
  3. Vladimir Lenin24
  4. Mahatma Gandhi25
  5. Leo Tolstoy66
  6. Joseph Stalin16
  7. Pablo Picasso13
  8. Winston Churchill20
  9. Charlie Chaplin5
  10. Friedrich Nietzsche50
  11. Thomas Edison47
  12. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk13–15
  13. Mark Twain59
  14. Sigmund Freud38
  15. Marie Curie27
  16. Rabindranath Tagore33
  17. Franklin Delano Roosevelt12
  18. Franz Kafka11
  19. Anton Chekhov34
  20. Mao Zedong1
  21. Oscar Wilde40
  22. Charles de Gaulle4
  23. Otto von Bismarck79
  24. Nikola Tesla38
  25. Louis Pasteur72
  26. James Joyce12
  27. J. R. R. Tolkien2
  28. Henry Ford31
  29. Benito Mussolini11
  30. Friedrich Engels74
  31. Le Corbusier7
  32. Harry S. Truman10
  33. Agatha Christie4
  34. Sarah Bernhardt50
  35. Alfred Nobel61
  36. Theodore Roosevelt36
  37. Jawaharlal Nehru5
  38. Marcel Proust23
  39. Dwight D. Eisenhower4
  40. Jules Verne66
  41. Woodrow Wilson38
  42. Rosa Luxemburg23
  43. Roald Amundsen22
  44. Rudyard Kipling29
  45. George Bernard Shaw38
  46. John Maynard Keynes11
  47. Niels Bohr9
  48. Bertrand Russell22
  49. Leon Trotsky15
  50. Max Planck36
  51. Arthur Conan Doyle35
  52. Maxim Gorky26
  53. Henri Matisse25
  54. Giuseppe Verdi81
  55. Dmitri Mendeleev60
  56. Frank Lloyd Wright27
  57. Virginia Woolf12
  58. Victoria75
  59. Ernest Rutherford23
  60. Ludwig Wittgenstein5
  61. Max Weber30
  62. Henrik Ibsen66
  63. Nikita Khrushchevborn
  64. H. G. Wells28
  65. Helen Keller14
  66. Émile Zola54
  67. Igor Stravinsky12
  68. David Hilbert32
  69. Thomas Mann19
  70. Erwin Schrödinger7
  71. Herbert Hoover20
  72. Hermann Hesse17
  73. Johannes Brahms61
  74. Anatole France50
  75. Alexander Graham Bell47
  76. Octave Mirbeau46
  77. Calvin Coolidge22
  78. T. S. Eliot6
  79. Kahlil Gibran11
  80. Lewis Carroll62
  81. Wilhelm Röntgen49
  82. Claude Monet54
  83. Selma Lagerlöf36
  84. Robert Louis Stevenson44 †
  85. William Butler Yeats29
  86. Ho Chi Minh4
  87. Sun Yat-sen28
  88. Carl Jung19
  89. Florence Nightingale74
  90. Antonín Dvořák53
  91. Gustav Mahler34
  92. Eleanor Roosevelt10
  93. B. R. Ambedkar3
  94. Martin Heidegger5
  95. William Howard Taft37
  96. Giacomo Puccini36
  97. Konrad Adenauer18
  98. Grover Cleveland57
  99. Jack London18
  100. André Gide25
  101. Aldous Huxleyborn
  102. William McKinley51
  103. Pearl S. Buck2
  104. L. L. Zamenhof35
  105. Warren G. Harding29
  106. Boris Pasternak4
  107. Romain Rolland28
  108. Paul Cézanne55
  109. Henryk Sienkiewicz48
  110. Henri Bergson35
  111. Chiang Kai-shek7
  112. Swami Vivekananda31
  113. Nicholas II of Russia26
  114. John XXIII13
  115. Benjamin Harrison61
  116. Knut Hamsun35
  117. Alexander Fleming13
  118. Luigi Pirandello27
  119. Rainer Maria Rilke19
  120. David Ben-Gurion8

The 120 best known of 353 are listed.