Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1914?

449 of the people we track were surely alive in 1914. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1914: Octavio Paz, Yuri Andropov, Hedy Lamarr, Louis de Funès, Tenzing Norgay and Julio Cortázar.

Died in 1914: Frédéric Mistral, Pius X, Bertha von Suttner, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and Paul Heyse.

  1. Adolf Hitler25
  2. Albert Einstein35
  3. Ronald Reagan3
  4. Vladimir Lenin44
  5. Mahatma Gandhi45
  6. Joseph Stalin36
  7. Pablo Picasso33
  8. Winston Churchill40
  9. Charlie Chaplin25
  10. Thomas Edison67
  11. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk33–35
  12. Sigmund Freud58
  13. Marie Curie47
  14. Salvador Dalí10
  15. Rabindranath Tagore53
  16. Franklin Delano Roosevelt32
  17. Franz Kafka31
  18. Mao Zedong21
  19. Charles de Gaulle24
  20. Nikola Tesla58
  21. Walt Disney13
  22. George Orwell11
  23. Ernest Hemingway15
  24. James Joyce32
  25. J. R. R. Tolkien22
  26. Albert Camus1
  27. Henry Ford51
  28. Marlene Dietrich13
  29. Benito Mussolini31
  30. Jean-Paul Sartre9
  31. Le Corbusier27
  32. Frida Kahlo7
  33. Mother Teresa4
  34. Harry S. Truman30
  35. Agatha Christie24
  36. Jorge Luis Borges15
  37. Sarah Bernhardt70
  38. Theodore Roosevelt56
  39. Jawaharlal Nehru25
  40. Marcel Proust43
  41. Dwight D. Eisenhower24
  42. Woodrow Wilson58
  43. Rosa Luxemburg43
  44. Roald Amundsen42
  45. Alan Turing2
  46. Richard Nixon1
  47. Rudyard Kipling49
  48. Alfred Hitchcock15
  49. Simone de Beauvoir6
  50. George Bernard Shaw58
  51. John Maynard Keynes31
  52. Niels Bohr29
  53. Bertrand Russell42
  54. Leon Trotsky35
  55. Max Planck56
  56. Arthur Conan Doyle55
  57. Maxim Gorky46
  58. Henri Matisse45
  59. Frank Lloyd Wright47
  60. Louis Armstrong13
  61. Virginia Woolf32
  62. Akira Kurosawa4
  63. Lyndon B. Johnson6
  64. Gerald Ford1
  65. Ernest Rutherford43
  66. Ludwig Wittgenstein25
  67. Max Weber50
  68. Huang Xianfan15
  69. Enrico Fermi13
  70. Naguib Mahfouz3
  71. Nikita Khrushchev20
  72. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry14
  73. H. G. Wells48
  74. Helen Keller34
  75. Pablo Neruda10
  76. Igor Stravinsky32
  77. David Hilbert52
  78. Thomas Mann39
  79. Erwin Schrödinger27
  80. Herbert Hoover40
  81. Hermann Hesse37
  82. Anatole France70
  83. Alexander Graham Bell67
  84. Octave Mirbeau66
  85. Calvin Coolidge42
  86. Kim Il-sung2
  87. T. S. Eliot26
  88. Kahlil Gibran31
  89. Kwame Nkrumah5
  90. Wilhelm Röntgen69
  91. Hirohito13
  92. Claude Monet74
  93. Selma Lagerlöf56
  94. Bertolt Brecht16
  95. William Butler Yeats49
  96. Ho Chi Minh24
  97. Sun Yat-sen48
  98. Carl Jung39
  99. Vladimir Nabokov15
  100. Eleanor Roosevelt30
  101. B. R. Ambedkar23
  102. Martin Heidegger25
  103. John Steinbeck12
  104. William Howard Taft57
  105. Giacomo Puccini56
  106. Konrad Adenauer38
  107. William Faulkner17
  108. Sergei Eisenstein16
  109. Jack London38
  110. André Gide45
  111. Aldous Huxley20
  112. Federico García Lorca16
  113. Pearl S. Buck22
  114. Georges Pompidou3
  115. L. L. Zamenhof55
  116. Warren G. Harding49
  117. Boris Pasternak24
  118. Romain Rolland48
  119. Joseph Goebbels17
  120. Werner Heisenberg13

The 120 best known of 449 are listed.