Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1895?

354 of the people we track were surely alive in 1895. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1895: George VI, Sergei Yesenin, Buster Keaton and Juan Perón.

Died in 1895: Louis Pasteur, Friedrich Engels, Thomas Henry Huxley, Alexandre Dumas fils, José Martí and Frederick Douglass.

  1. Adolf Hitler6
  2. Albert Einstein16
  3. Vladimir Lenin25
  4. Mahatma Gandhi26
  5. Leo Tolstoy67
  6. Joseph Stalin17
  7. Pablo Picasso14
  8. Winston Churchill21
  9. Charlie Chaplin6
  10. Friedrich Nietzsche51
  11. Thomas Edison48
  12. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk14–16
  13. Mark Twain60
  14. Sigmund Freud39
  15. Marie Curie28
  16. Rabindranath Tagore34
  17. Franklin Delano Roosevelt13
  18. Franz Kafka12
  19. Anton Chekhov35
  20. Mao Zedong2
  21. Oscar Wilde41
  22. Charles de Gaulle5
  23. Otto von Bismarck80
  24. Nikola Tesla39
  25. Louis Pasteur72 †
  26. James Joyce13
  27. J. R. R. Tolkien3
  28. Henry Ford32
  29. Benito Mussolini12
  30. Friedrich Engels74 †
  31. Le Corbusier8
  32. Harry S. Truman11
  33. Agatha Christie5
  34. Sarah Bernhardt51
  35. Alfred Nobel62
  36. Theodore Roosevelt37
  37. Jawaharlal Nehru6
  38. Marcel Proust24
  39. Dwight D. Eisenhower5
  40. Jules Verne67
  41. Woodrow Wilson39
  42. Rosa Luxemburg24
  43. Roald Amundsen23
  44. Rudyard Kipling30
  45. George Bernard Shaw39
  46. John Maynard Keynes12
  47. Niels Bohr10
  48. Bertrand Russell23
  49. Leon Trotsky16
  50. Max Planck37
  51. Arthur Conan Doyle36
  52. Maxim Gorky27
  53. Henri Matisse26
  54. Giuseppe Verdi82
  55. Dmitri Mendeleev61
  56. Frank Lloyd Wright28
  57. Virginia Woolf13
  58. Victoria76
  59. Ernest Rutherford24
  60. Ludwig Wittgenstein6
  61. Max Weber31
  62. Henrik Ibsen67
  63. Nikita Khrushchev1
  64. H. G. Wells29
  65. Helen Keller15
  66. Émile Zola55
  67. Igor Stravinsky13
  68. David Hilbert33
  69. Thomas Mann20
  70. Erwin Schrödinger8
  71. Herbert Hoover21
  72. Hermann Hesse18
  73. Johannes Brahms62
  74. Anatole France51
  75. Alexander Graham Bell48
  76. Octave Mirbeau47
  77. Calvin Coolidge23
  78. T. S. Eliot7
  79. Kahlil Gibran12
  80. Lewis Carroll63
  81. Wilhelm Röntgen50
  82. Claude Monet55
  83. Selma Lagerlöf37
  84. William Butler Yeats30
  85. Ho Chi Minh5
  86. Sun Yat-sen29
  87. Carl Jung20
  88. Florence Nightingale75
  89. Antonín Dvořák54
  90. Gustav Mahler35
  91. Eleanor Roosevelt11
  92. B. R. Ambedkar4
  93. Martin Heidegger6
  94. William Howard Taft38
  95. Giacomo Puccini37
  96. Konrad Adenauer19
  97. Grover Cleveland58
  98. Jack London19
  99. André Gide26
  100. Aldous Huxley1
  101. William McKinley52
  102. Pearl S. Buck3
  103. L. L. Zamenhof36
  104. Warren G. Harding30
  105. Boris Pasternak5
  106. Romain Rolland29
  107. Paul Cézanne56
  108. Henryk Sienkiewicz49
  109. Henri Bergson36
  110. Chiang Kai-shek8
  111. Swami Vivekananda32
  112. Nicholas II of Russia27
  113. John XXIII14
  114. Benjamin Harrison62
  115. Knut Hamsun36
  116. Alexander Fleming14
  117. Luigi Pirandello28
  118. Rainer Maria Rilke20
  119. David Ben-Gurion9
  120. Francisco Franco3

The 120 best known of 354 are listed.