Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1916?

461 of the people we track were surely alive in 1916. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1916: François Mitterrand, Roald Dahl, Kirk Douglas, Camilo José Cela, Gregory Peck, Francis Crick, Harold Wilson and Aldo Moro.

Died in 1916: Jack London, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Grigori Rasputin, Henry James, Franz Joseph I of Austria, William Ramsay and Ernst Mach.

  1. Adolf Hitler27
  2. Albert Einstein37
  3. Ronald Reagan5
  4. Vladimir Lenin46
  5. Mahatma Gandhi47
  6. Joseph Stalin38
  7. Pablo Picasso35
  8. Winston Churchill42
  9. Charlie Chaplin27
  10. Thomas Edison69
  11. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk35–37
  12. Sigmund Freud60
  13. Marie Curie49
  14. Salvador Dalí12
  15. Rabindranath Tagore55
  16. Franklin Delano Roosevelt34
  17. Franz Kafka33
  18. Mao Zedong23
  19. Charles de Gaulle26
  20. Nikola Tesla60
  21. Walt Disney15
  22. George Orwell13
  23. Ernest Hemingway17
  24. James Joyce34
  25. J. R. R. Tolkien24
  26. Albert Camus3
  27. Henry Ford53
  28. Marlene Dietrich15
  29. Benito Mussolini33
  30. Jean-Paul Sartre11
  31. Le Corbusier29
  32. Frida Kahlo9
  33. Mother Teresa6
  34. Harry S. Truman32
  35. Agatha Christie26
  36. Jorge Luis Borges17
  37. Sarah Bernhardt72
  38. Theodore Roosevelt58
  39. Jawaharlal Nehru27
  40. Marcel Proust45
  41. Dwight D. Eisenhower26
  42. Woodrow Wilson60
  43. Rosa Luxemburg45
  44. Roald Amundsen44
  45. Alan Turing4
  46. Richard Nixon3
  47. Rudyard Kipling51
  48. Alfred Hitchcock17
  49. Simone de Beauvoir8
  50. George Bernard Shaw60
  51. John Maynard Keynes33
  52. Niels Bohr31
  53. Bertrand Russell44
  54. Leon Trotsky37
  55. Max Planck58
  56. Arthur Conan Doyle57
  57. Maxim Gorky48
  58. Henri Matisse47
  59. Frank Lloyd Wright49
  60. Louis Armstrong15
  61. Virginia Woolf34
  62. Akira Kurosawa6
  63. Lyndon B. Johnson8
  64. Gerald Ford3
  65. Ernest Rutherford45
  66. Ludwig Wittgenstein27
  67. Max Weber52
  68. Huang Xianfan17
  69. Enrico Fermi15
  70. Naguib Mahfouz5
  71. Nikita Khrushchev22
  72. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry16
  73. H. G. Wells50
  74. Helen Keller36
  75. Pablo Neruda12
  76. Igor Stravinsky34
  77. David Hilbert54
  78. Thomas Mann41
  79. Erwin Schrödinger29
  80. Herbert Hoover42
  81. Hermann Hesse39
  82. Anatole France72
  83. Alexander Graham Bell69
  84. Octave Mirbeau68
  85. Calvin Coolidge44
  86. Kim Il-sung4
  87. T. S. Eliot28
  88. Kahlil Gibran33
  89. Kwame Nkrumah7
  90. Wilhelm Röntgen71
  91. Hirohito15
  92. Claude Monet76
  93. Selma Lagerlöf58
  94. Bertolt Brecht18
  95. William Butler Yeats51
  96. Ho Chi Minh26
  97. Sun Yat-sen50
  98. Carl Jung41
  99. Vladimir Nabokov17
  100. Eleanor Roosevelt32
  101. B. R. Ambedkar25
  102. Martin Heidegger27
  103. John Steinbeck14
  104. William Howard Taft59
  105. Giacomo Puccini58
  106. Konrad Adenauer40
  107. William Faulkner19
  108. Sergei Eisenstein18
  109. Jack London40 †
  110. Édith Piaf1
  111. André Gide47
  112. Aldous Huxley22
  113. Federico García Lorca18
  114. Pearl S. Buck24
  115. Georges Pompidou5
  116. L. L. Zamenhof57
  117. Warren G. Harding51
  118. Boris Pasternak26
  119. Romain Rolland50
  120. Joseph Goebbels19

The 120 best known of 461 are listed.