Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1907?

425 of the people we track were surely alive in 1907. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1907: Frida Kahlo, Katharine Hepburn, John Wayne, Astrid Lindgren, Rachel Carson, Robert A. Heinlein, W. H. Auden and Oscar Niemeyer.

Died in 1907: Dmitri Mendeleev, Giosuè Carducci, Sully Prudhomme, Edvard Grieg and William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin.

  1. Adolf Hitler18
  2. Albert Einstein28
  3. Vladimir Lenin37
  4. Mahatma Gandhi38
  5. Leo Tolstoy79
  6. Joseph Stalin29
  7. Pablo Picasso26
  8. Winston Churchill33
  9. Charlie Chaplin18
  10. Thomas Edison60
  11. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk26–28
  12. Mark Twain72
  13. Sigmund Freud51
  14. Marie Curie40
  15. Salvador Dalí3
  16. Rabindranath Tagore46
  17. Franklin Delano Roosevelt25
  18. Franz Kafka24
  19. Mao Zedong14
  20. Charles de Gaulle17
  21. Nikola Tesla51
  22. Walt Disney6
  23. George Orwell4
  24. Ernest Hemingway8
  25. James Joyce25
  26. J. R. R. Tolkien15
  27. Henry Ford44
  28. Marlene Dietrich6
  29. Benito Mussolini24
  30. Jean-Paul Sartre2
  31. Le Corbusier20
  32. Frida Kahloborn
  33. Harry S. Truman23
  34. Agatha Christie17
  35. Jorge Luis Borges8
  36. Sarah Bernhardt63
  37. Theodore Roosevelt49
  38. Jawaharlal Nehru18
  39. Marcel Proust36
  40. Dwight D. Eisenhower17
  41. Woodrow Wilson51
  42. Rosa Luxemburg36
  43. Roald Amundsen35
  44. Rudyard Kipling42
  45. Alfred Hitchcock8
  46. George Bernard Shaw51
  47. John Maynard Keynes24
  48. Niels Bohr22
  49. Bertrand Russell35
  50. Leon Trotsky28
  51. Max Planck49
  52. Arthur Conan Doyle48
  53. Maxim Gorky39
  54. Henri Matisse38
  55. Dmitri Mendeleev72 †
  56. Frank Lloyd Wright40
  57. Louis Armstrong6
  58. Virginia Woolf25
  59. Ernest Rutherford36
  60. Ludwig Wittgenstein18
  61. Max Weber43
  62. Huang Xianfan8
  63. Enrico Fermi6
  64. Nikita Khrushchev13
  65. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry7
  66. H. G. Wells41
  67. Helen Keller27
  68. Pablo Neruda3
  69. Igor Stravinsky25
  70. David Hilbert45
  71. Thomas Mann32
  72. Erwin Schrödinger20
  73. Herbert Hoover33
  74. Hermann Hesse30
  75. Anatole France63
  76. Alexander Graham Bell60
  77. Octave Mirbeau59
  78. Calvin Coolidge35
  79. T. S. Eliot19
  80. Kahlil Gibran24
  81. Wilhelm Röntgen62
  82. Hirohito6
  83. Claude Monet67
  84. Selma Lagerlöf49
  85. Bertolt Brecht9
  86. William Butler Yeats42
  87. Ho Chi Minh17
  88. Sun Yat-sen41
  89. Carl Jung32
  90. Florence Nightingale87
  91. Gustav Mahler47
  92. Vladimir Nabokov8
  93. Eleanor Roosevelt23
  94. B. R. Ambedkar16
  95. Martin Heidegger18
  96. John Steinbeck5
  97. William Howard Taft50
  98. Giacomo Puccini49
  99. Konrad Adenauer31
  100. William Faulkner10
  101. Sergei Eisenstein9
  102. Grover Cleveland70
  103. Jack London31
  104. André Gide38
  105. Aldous Huxley13
  106. Federico García Lorca9
  107. Pearl S. Buck15
  108. L. L. Zamenhof48
  109. Warren G. Harding42
  110. Boris Pasternak17
  111. Romain Rolland41
  112. Joseph Goebbels10
  113. Werner Heisenberg6
  114. Samuel Beckett1
  115. Henryk Sienkiewicz61
  116. Leonid Brezhnev1
  117. Henri Bergson48
  118. Chiang Kai-shek20
  119. Nicholas II of Russia39
  120. John XXIII26

The 120 best known of 425 are listed.