Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1917?

462 of the people we track were surely alive in 1917. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1917: John F. Kennedy, Indira Gandhi, Ferdinand Marcos, Arthur C. Clarke, Heinrich Böll, Ella Fitzgerald, Park Chung-hee and I. M. Pei.

Died in 1917: Octave Mirbeau, L. L. Zamenhof, Auguste Rodin, Émile Durkheim, Edgar Degas and Mata Hari.

  1. Adolf Hitler28
  2. Albert Einstein38
  3. Ronald Reagan6
  4. Vladimir Lenin47
  5. Mahatma Gandhi48
  6. Joseph Stalin39
  7. Pablo Picasso36
  8. Winston Churchill43
  9. Charlie Chaplin28
  10. Thomas Edison70
  11. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk36–38
  12. Sigmund Freud61
  13. John F. Kennedyborn
  14. Marie Curie50
  15. Salvador Dalí13
  16. Rabindranath Tagore56
  17. Franklin Delano Roosevelt35
  18. Franz Kafka34
  19. Mao Zedong24
  20. Charles de Gaulle27
  21. Nikola Tesla61
  22. Walt Disney16
  23. George Orwell14
  24. Ernest Hemingway18
  25. James Joyce35
  26. J. R. R. Tolkien25
  27. Albert Camus4
  28. Henry Ford54
  29. Marlene Dietrich16
  30. Benito Mussolini34
  31. Jean-Paul Sartre12
  32. Le Corbusier30
  33. Frida Kahlo10
  34. Mother Teresa7
  35. Harry S. Truman33
  36. Agatha Christie27
  37. Jorge Luis Borges18
  38. Sarah Bernhardt73
  39. Theodore Roosevelt59
  40. Jawaharlal Nehru28
  41. Marcel Proust46
  42. Dwight D. Eisenhower27
  43. Woodrow Wilson61
  44. Rosa Luxemburg46
  45. Roald Amundsen45
  46. Alan Turing5
  47. Richard Nixon4
  48. Rudyard Kipling52
  49. Alfred Hitchcock18
  50. Simone de Beauvoir9
  51. George Bernard Shaw61
  52. John Maynard Keynes34
  53. Niels Bohr32
  54. Bertrand Russell45
  55. Leon Trotsky38
  56. Max Planck59
  57. Arthur Conan Doyle58
  58. Maxim Gorky49
  59. Henri Matisse48
  60. Frank Lloyd Wright50
  61. Louis Armstrong16
  62. Virginia Woolf35
  63. Akira Kurosawa7
  64. Lyndon B. Johnson9
  65. Gerald Ford4
  66. Ernest Rutherford46
  67. Ludwig Wittgenstein28
  68. Indira Gandhiborn
  69. Max Weber53
  70. Huang Xianfan18
  71. Enrico Fermi16
  72. Naguib Mahfouz6
  73. Nikita Khrushchev23
  74. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry17
  75. H. G. Wells51
  76. Helen Keller37
  77. Pablo Neruda13
  78. Igor Stravinsky35
  79. David Hilbert55
  80. Thomas Mann42
  81. Erwin Schrödinger30
  82. Herbert Hoover43
  83. Hermann Hesse40
  84. Anatole France73
  85. Alexander Graham Bell70
  86. Octave Mirbeau69 †
  87. Calvin Coolidge45
  88. Kim Il-sung5
  89. T. S. Eliot29
  90. Kahlil Gibran34
  91. Kwame Nkrumah8
  92. Wilhelm Röntgen72
  93. Hirohito16
  94. Claude Monet77
  95. Selma Lagerlöf59
  96. Bertolt Brecht19
  97. William Butler Yeats52
  98. Ho Chi Minh27
  99. Sun Yat-sen51
  100. Carl Jung42
  101. Vladimir Nabokov18
  102. Eleanor Roosevelt33
  103. B. R. Ambedkar26
  104. Martin Heidegger28
  105. John Steinbeck15
  106. William Howard Taft60
  107. Giacomo Puccini59
  108. Konrad Adenauer41
  109. William Faulkner20
  110. Sergei Eisenstein19
  111. Édith Piaf2
  112. André Gide48
  113. Aldous Huxley23
  114. Federico García Lorca19
  115. Pearl S. Buck25
  116. Georges Pompidou6
  117. L. L. Zamenhof57 †
  118. Warren G. Harding52
  119. Boris Pasternak27
  120. Romain Rolland51

The 120 best known of 462 are listed.