Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1904?

404 of the people we track were surely alive in 1904. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1904: Salvador Dalí, Pablo Neruda, Deng Xiaoping, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Graham Greene and Cary Grant.

Died in 1904: Anton Chekhov, Antonín Dvořák and Theodor Herzl.

  1. Adolf Hitler15
  2. Albert Einstein25
  3. Vladimir Lenin34
  4. Mahatma Gandhi35
  5. Leo Tolstoy76
  6. Joseph Stalin26
  7. Pablo Picasso23
  8. Winston Churchill30
  9. Charlie Chaplin15
  10. Thomas Edison57
  11. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk23–25
  12. Mark Twain69
  13. Sigmund Freud48
  14. Marie Curie37
  15. Salvador Dalíborn
  16. Rabindranath Tagore43
  17. Franklin Delano Roosevelt22
  18. Franz Kafka21
  19. Anton Chekhov44 †
  20. Mao Zedong11
  21. Charles de Gaulle14
  22. Nikola Tesla48
  23. Walt Disney3
  24. George Orwell1
  25. Ernest Hemingway5
  26. James Joyce22
  27. J. R. R. Tolkien12
  28. Henry Ford41
  29. Marlene Dietrich3
  30. Benito Mussolini21
  31. Le Corbusier17
  32. Harry S. Truman20
  33. Agatha Christie14
  34. Jorge Luis Borges5
  35. Sarah Bernhardt60
  36. Theodore Roosevelt46
  37. Jawaharlal Nehru15
  38. Marcel Proust33
  39. Dwight D. Eisenhower14
  40. Jules Verne76
  41. Woodrow Wilson48
  42. Rosa Luxemburg33
  43. Roald Amundsen32
  44. Rudyard Kipling39
  45. Alfred Hitchcock5
  46. George Bernard Shaw48
  47. John Maynard Keynes21
  48. Niels Bohr19
  49. Bertrand Russell32
  50. Leon Trotsky25
  51. Max Planck46
  52. Arthur Conan Doyle45
  53. Maxim Gorky36
  54. Henri Matisse35
  55. Dmitri Mendeleev70
  56. Frank Lloyd Wright37
  57. Louis Armstrong3
  58. Virginia Woolf22
  59. Ernest Rutherford33
  60. Ludwig Wittgenstein15
  61. Max Weber40
  62. Huang Xianfan5
  63. Enrico Fermi3
  64. Henrik Ibsen76
  65. Nikita Khrushchev10
  66. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry4
  67. H. G. Wells38
  68. Helen Keller24
  69. Pablo Nerudaborn
  70. Igor Stravinsky22
  71. David Hilbert42
  72. Thomas Mann29
  73. Erwin Schrödinger17
  74. Herbert Hoover30
  75. Hermann Hesse27
  76. Anatole France60
  77. Alexander Graham Bell57
  78. Octave Mirbeau56
  79. Calvin Coolidge32
  80. T. S. Eliot16
  81. Kahlil Gibran21
  82. Wilhelm Röntgen59
  83. Hirohito3
  84. Claude Monet64
  85. Selma Lagerlöf46
  86. Bertolt Brecht6
  87. William Butler Yeats39
  88. Ho Chi Minh14
  89. Sun Yat-sen38
  90. Carl Jung29
  91. Florence Nightingale84
  92. Antonín Dvořák62 †
  93. Gustav Mahler44
  94. Vladimir Nabokov5
  95. Eleanor Roosevelt20
  96. B. R. Ambedkar13
  97. Martin Heidegger15
  98. John Steinbeck2
  99. William Howard Taft47
  100. Giacomo Puccini46
  101. Konrad Adenauer28
  102. William Faulkner7
  103. Sergei Eisenstein6
  104. Grover Cleveland67
  105. Jack London28
  106. André Gide35
  107. Aldous Huxley10
  108. Federico García Lorca6
  109. Pearl S. Buck12
  110. L. L. Zamenhof45
  111. Warren G. Harding39
  112. Boris Pasternak14
  113. Romain Rolland38
  114. Joseph Goebbels7
  115. Werner Heisenberg3
  116. Paul Cézanne65
  117. Henryk Sienkiewicz58
  118. Henri Bergson45
  119. Chiang Kai-shek17
  120. Nicholas II of Russia36

The 120 best known of 404 are listed.