Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1902?

397 of the people we track were surely alive in 1902. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1902: John Steinbeck, Karl Popper, Paul Dirac, Halldór Laxness, Eugene Paul Wigner, Barbara McClintock and Leni Riefenstahl.

Died in 1902: Émile Zola, Swami Vivekananda and Cecil John Rhodes.

  1. Adolf Hitler13
  2. Albert Einstein23
  3. Vladimir Lenin32
  4. Mahatma Gandhi33
  5. Leo Tolstoy74
  6. Joseph Stalin24
  7. Pablo Picasso21
  8. Winston Churchill28
  9. Charlie Chaplin13
  10. Thomas Edison55
  11. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk21–23
  12. Mark Twain67
  13. Sigmund Freud46
  14. Marie Curie35
  15. Rabindranath Tagore41
  16. Franklin Delano Roosevelt20
  17. Franz Kafka19
  18. Anton Chekhov42
  19. Mao Zedong9
  20. Charles de Gaulle12
  21. Nikola Tesla46
  22. Walt Disney1
  23. Ernest Hemingway3
  24. James Joyce20
  25. J. R. R. Tolkien10
  26. Henry Ford39
  27. Marlene Dietrich1
  28. Benito Mussolini19
  29. Le Corbusier15
  30. Harry S. Truman18
  31. Agatha Christie12
  32. Jorge Luis Borges3
  33. Sarah Bernhardt58
  34. Theodore Roosevelt44
  35. Jawaharlal Nehru13
  36. Marcel Proust31
  37. Dwight D. Eisenhower12
  38. Jules Verne74
  39. Woodrow Wilson46
  40. Rosa Luxemburg31
  41. Roald Amundsen30
  42. Rudyard Kipling37
  43. Alfred Hitchcock3
  44. George Bernard Shaw46
  45. John Maynard Keynes19
  46. Niels Bohr17
  47. Bertrand Russell30
  48. Leon Trotsky23
  49. Max Planck44
  50. Arthur Conan Doyle43
  51. Maxim Gorky34
  52. Henri Matisse33
  53. Dmitri Mendeleev68
  54. Frank Lloyd Wright35
  55. Louis Armstrong1
  56. Virginia Woolf20
  57. Ernest Rutherford31
  58. Ludwig Wittgenstein13
  59. Max Weber38
  60. Huang Xianfan3
  61. Enrico Fermi1
  62. Henrik Ibsen74
  63. Nikita Khrushchev8
  64. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry2
  65. H. G. Wells36
  66. Helen Keller22
  67. Émile Zola62 †
  68. Igor Stravinsky20
  69. David Hilbert40
  70. Thomas Mann27
  71. Erwin Schrödinger15
  72. Herbert Hoover28
  73. Hermann Hesse25
  74. Anatole France58
  75. Alexander Graham Bell55
  76. Octave Mirbeau54
  77. Calvin Coolidge30
  78. T. S. Eliot14
  79. Kahlil Gibran19
  80. Wilhelm Röntgen57
  81. Hirohito1
  82. Claude Monet62
  83. Selma Lagerlöf44
  84. Bertolt Brecht4
  85. William Butler Yeats37
  86. Ho Chi Minh12
  87. Sun Yat-sen36
  88. Carl Jung27
  89. Florence Nightingale82
  90. Antonín Dvořák61
  91. Gustav Mahler42
  92. Vladimir Nabokov3
  93. Eleanor Roosevelt18
  94. B. R. Ambedkar11
  95. Martin Heidegger13
  96. John Steinbeckborn
  97. William Howard Taft45
  98. Giacomo Puccini44
  99. Konrad Adenauer26
  100. William Faulkner5
  101. Sergei Eisenstein4
  102. Grover Cleveland65
  103. Jack London26
  104. André Gide33
  105. Aldous Huxley8
  106. Federico García Lorca4
  107. Pearl S. Buck10
  108. L. L. Zamenhof43
  109. Warren G. Harding37
  110. Boris Pasternak12
  111. Romain Rolland36
  112. Joseph Goebbels5
  113. Werner Heisenberg1
  114. Paul Cézanne63
  115. Henryk Sienkiewicz56
  116. Henri Bergson43
  117. Chiang Kai-shek15
  118. Swami Vivekananda39 †
  119. Nicholas II of Russia34
  120. John XXIII21

The 120 best known of 397 are listed.