Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1899?

374 of the people we track were surely alive in 1899. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1899: Ernest Hemingway, Jorge Luis Borges, Alfred Hitchcock, Huang Xianfan, Vladimir Nabokov, Yasunari Kawabata, Humphrey Bogart and Friedrich Hayek.

  1. Adolf Hitler10
  2. Albert Einstein20
  3. Vladimir Lenin29
  4. Mahatma Gandhi30
  5. Leo Tolstoy71
  6. Joseph Stalin21
  7. Pablo Picasso18
  8. Winston Churchill25
  9. Charlie Chaplin10
  10. Friedrich Nietzsche55
  11. Thomas Edison52
  12. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk18–20
  13. Mark Twain64
  14. Sigmund Freud43
  15. Marie Curie32
  16. Rabindranath Tagore38
  17. Franklin Delano Roosevelt17
  18. Franz Kafka16
  19. Anton Chekhov39
  20. Mao Zedong6
  21. Oscar Wilde45
  22. Charles de Gaulle9
  23. Nikola Tesla43
  24. Ernest Hemingwayborn
  25. James Joyce17
  26. J. R. R. Tolkien7
  27. Henry Ford36
  28. Benito Mussolini16
  29. Le Corbusier12
  30. Harry S. Truman15
  31. Agatha Christie9
  32. Jorge Luis Borgesborn
  33. Sarah Bernhardt55
  34. Theodore Roosevelt41
  35. Jawaharlal Nehru10
  36. Marcel Proust28
  37. Dwight D. Eisenhower9
  38. Jules Verne71
  39. Woodrow Wilson43
  40. Rosa Luxemburg28
  41. Roald Amundsen27
  42. Rudyard Kipling34
  43. Alfred Hitchcockborn
  44. George Bernard Shaw43
  45. John Maynard Keynes16
  46. Niels Bohr14
  47. Bertrand Russell27
  48. Leon Trotsky20
  49. Max Planck41
  50. Arthur Conan Doyle40
  51. Maxim Gorky31
  52. Henri Matisse30
  53. Giuseppe Verdi86
  54. Dmitri Mendeleev65
  55. Frank Lloyd Wright32
  56. Virginia Woolf17
  57. Victoria80
  58. Ernest Rutherford28
  59. Ludwig Wittgenstein10
  60. Max Weber35
  61. Huang Xianfanborn
  62. Henrik Ibsen71
  63. Nikita Khrushchev5
  64. H. G. Wells33
  65. Helen Keller19
  66. Émile Zola59
  67. Igor Stravinsky17
  68. David Hilbert37
  69. Thomas Mann24
  70. Erwin Schrödinger12
  71. Herbert Hoover25
  72. Hermann Hesse22
  73. Anatole France55
  74. Alexander Graham Bell52
  75. Octave Mirbeau51
  76. Calvin Coolidge27
  77. T. S. Eliot11
  78. Kahlil Gibran16
  79. Wilhelm Röntgen54
  80. Claude Monet59
  81. Selma Lagerlöf41
  82. Bertolt Brecht1
  83. William Butler Yeats34
  84. Ho Chi Minh9
  85. Sun Yat-sen33
  86. Carl Jung24
  87. Florence Nightingale79
  88. Antonín Dvořák58
  89. Gustav Mahler39
  90. Vladimir Nabokovborn
  91. Eleanor Roosevelt15
  92. B. R. Ambedkar8
  93. Martin Heidegger10
  94. William Howard Taft42
  95. Giacomo Puccini41
  96. Konrad Adenauer23
  97. William Faulkner2
  98. Sergei Eisenstein1
  99. Grover Cleveland62
  100. Jack London23
  101. André Gide30
  102. Aldous Huxley5
  103. Federico García Lorca1
  104. William McKinley56
  105. Pearl S. Buck7
  106. L. L. Zamenhof40
  107. Warren G. Harding34
  108. Boris Pasternak9
  109. Romain Rolland33
  110. Joseph Goebbels2
  111. Paul Cézanne60
  112. Henryk Sienkiewicz53
  113. Henri Bergson40
  114. Chiang Kai-shek12
  115. Swami Vivekananda36
  116. Nicholas II of Russia31
  117. John XXIII18
  118. Benjamin Harrison66
  119. Golda Meir1
  120. Knut Hamsun40

The 120 best known of 374 are listed.