Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1906?

418 of the people we track were surely alive in 1906. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1906: Samuel Beckett, Leonid Brezhnev, Hannah Arendt, Kurt Gödel, Dmitri Shostakovich, Maria Göppert Mayer, Josephine Baker and Adolf Eichmann.

Died in 1906: Henrik Ibsen, Paul Cézanne, Pierre Curie and Susan B. Anthony.

  1. Adolf Hitler17
  2. Albert Einstein27
  3. Vladimir Lenin36
  4. Mahatma Gandhi37
  5. Leo Tolstoy78
  6. Joseph Stalin28
  7. Pablo Picasso25
  8. Winston Churchill32
  9. Charlie Chaplin17
  10. Thomas Edison59
  11. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk25–27
  12. Mark Twain71
  13. Sigmund Freud50
  14. Marie Curie39
  15. Salvador Dalí2
  16. Rabindranath Tagore45
  17. Franklin Delano Roosevelt24
  18. Franz Kafka23
  19. Mao Zedong13
  20. Charles de Gaulle16
  21. Nikola Tesla50
  22. Walt Disney5
  23. George Orwell3
  24. Ernest Hemingway7
  25. James Joyce24
  26. J. R. R. Tolkien14
  27. Henry Ford43
  28. Marlene Dietrich5
  29. Benito Mussolini23
  30. Jean-Paul Sartre1
  31. Le Corbusier19
  32. Harry S. Truman22
  33. Agatha Christie16
  34. Jorge Luis Borges7
  35. Sarah Bernhardt62
  36. Theodore Roosevelt48
  37. Jawaharlal Nehru17
  38. Marcel Proust35
  39. Dwight D. Eisenhower16
  40. Woodrow Wilson50
  41. Rosa Luxemburg35
  42. Roald Amundsen34
  43. Rudyard Kipling41
  44. Alfred Hitchcock7
  45. George Bernard Shaw50
  46. John Maynard Keynes23
  47. Niels Bohr21
  48. Bertrand Russell34
  49. Leon Trotsky27
  50. Max Planck48
  51. Arthur Conan Doyle47
  52. Maxim Gorky38
  53. Henri Matisse37
  54. Dmitri Mendeleev72
  55. Frank Lloyd Wright39
  56. Louis Armstrong5
  57. Virginia Woolf24
  58. Ernest Rutherford35
  59. Ludwig Wittgenstein17
  60. Max Weber42
  61. Huang Xianfan7
  62. Enrico Fermi5
  63. Henrik Ibsen78 †
  64. Nikita Khrushchev12
  65. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry6
  66. H. G. Wells40
  67. Helen Keller26
  68. Pablo Neruda2
  69. Igor Stravinsky24
  70. David Hilbert44
  71. Thomas Mann31
  72. Erwin Schrödinger19
  73. Herbert Hoover32
  74. Hermann Hesse29
  75. Anatole France62
  76. Alexander Graham Bell59
  77. Octave Mirbeau58
  78. Calvin Coolidge34
  79. T. S. Eliot18
  80. Kahlil Gibran23
  81. Wilhelm Röntgen61
  82. Hirohito5
  83. Claude Monet66
  84. Selma Lagerlöf48
  85. Bertolt Brecht8
  86. William Butler Yeats41
  87. Ho Chi Minh16
  88. Sun Yat-sen40
  89. Carl Jung31
  90. Florence Nightingale86
  91. Gustav Mahler46
  92. Vladimir Nabokov7
  93. Eleanor Roosevelt22
  94. B. R. Ambedkar15
  95. Martin Heidegger17
  96. John Steinbeck4
  97. William Howard Taft49
  98. Giacomo Puccini48
  99. Konrad Adenauer30
  100. William Faulkner9
  101. Sergei Eisenstein8
  102. Grover Cleveland69
  103. Jack London30
  104. André Gide37
  105. Aldous Huxley12
  106. Federico García Lorca8
  107. Pearl S. Buck14
  108. L. L. Zamenhof47
  109. Warren G. Harding41
  110. Boris Pasternak16
  111. Romain Rolland40
  112. Joseph Goebbels9
  113. Werner Heisenberg5
  114. Samuel Beckettborn
  115. Paul Cézanne67 †
  116. Henryk Sienkiewicz60
  117. Leonid Brezhnevborn
  118. Henri Bergson47
  119. Chiang Kai-shek19
  120. Nicholas II of Russia38

The 120 best known of 418 are listed.