Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1920?

468 of the people we track were surely alive in 1920. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1920: John Paul II, Federico Fellini, Toshirō Mifune, Ray Bradbury, Rosalind Franklin, Charles Bukowski, Ravi Shankar and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

Died in 1920: Max Weber, Srinivasa Ramanujan and Wilhelm Wundt.

  1. Adolf Hitler31
  2. Albert Einstein41
  3. Ronald Reagan9
  4. Vladimir Lenin50
  5. Nelson Mandela2
  6. Mahatma Gandhi51
  7. Joseph Stalin42
  8. Pablo Picasso39
  9. Winston Churchill46
  10. Charlie Chaplin31
  11. Thomas Edison73
  12. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk39–41
  13. Sigmund Freud64
  14. John F. Kennedy3
  15. Marie Curie53
  16. Salvador Dalí16
  17. Rabindranath Tagore59
  18. Franklin Delano Roosevelt38
  19. Franz Kafka37
  20. Mao Zedong27
  21. Charles de Gaulle30
  22. Nikola Tesla64
  23. Walt Disney19
  24. George Orwell17
  25. Ernest Hemingway21
  26. James Joyce38
  27. John Paul IIborn
  28. J. R. R. Tolkien28
  29. Albert Camus7
  30. Henry Ford57
  31. Marlene Dietrich19
  32. Benito Mussolini37
  33. Jean-Paul Sartre15
  34. Le Corbusier33
  35. Frida Kahlo13
  36. Mother Teresa10
  37. Harry S. Truman36
  38. Agatha Christie30
  39. Jorge Luis Borges21
  40. Sarah Bernhardt76
  41. Jawaharlal Nehru31
  42. Marcel Proust49
  43. Dwight D. Eisenhower30
  44. Woodrow Wilson64
  45. Roald Amundsen48
  46. Alan Turing8
  47. Richard Nixon7
  48. Rudyard Kipling55
  49. Alfred Hitchcock21
  50. Simone de Beauvoir12
  51. George Bernard Shaw64
  52. John Maynard Keynes37
  53. Niels Bohr35
  54. Bertrand Russell48
  55. Leon Trotsky41
  56. Max Planck62
  57. Arthur Conan Doyle61
  58. Maxim Gorky52
  59. Henri Matisse51
  60. Frank Lloyd Wright53
  61. Louis Armstrong19
  62. Virginia Woolf38
  63. Akira Kurosawa10
  64. Lyndon B. Johnson12
  65. Gerald Ford7
  66. Ernest Rutherford49
  67. Ludwig Wittgenstein31
  68. Indira Gandhi3
  69. Max Weber56 †
  70. Huang Xianfan21
  71. Enrico Fermi19
  72. Naguib Mahfouz9
  73. Nikita Khrushchev26
  74. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry20
  75. H. G. Wells54
  76. Helen Keller40
  77. Pablo Neruda16
  78. Igor Stravinsky38
  79. David Hilbert58
  80. Thomas Mann45
  81. Erwin Schrödinger33
  82. Herbert Hoover46
  83. Hermann Hesse43
  84. Isaac Asimov0–1
  85. Ingmar Bergman2
  86. Federico Felliniborn
  87. Anatole France76
  88. Alexander Graham Bell73
  89. Calvin Coolidge48
  90. Kim Il-sung8
  91. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn2
  92. T. S. Eliot32
  93. Kahlil Gibran37
  94. Kwame Nkrumah11
  95. Wilhelm Röntgen75
  96. Hirohito19
  97. Richard Feynman2
  98. Claude Monet80
  99. Selma Lagerlöf62
  100. Bertolt Brecht22
  101. William Butler Yeats55
  102. Ho Chi Minh30
  103. Sun Yat-sen54
  104. Carl Jung45
  105. Vladimir Nabokov21
  106. Eleanor Roosevelt36
  107. B. R. Ambedkar29
  108. Martin Heidegger31
  109. John Steinbeck18
  110. William Howard Taft63
  111. Giacomo Puccini62
  112. Konrad Adenauer44
  113. William Faulkner23
  114. Sergei Eisenstein22
  115. Édith Piaf5
  116. André Gide51
  117. Aldous Huxley26
  118. Federico García Lorca22
  119. Pearl S. Buck28
  120. Georges Pompidou9

The 120 best known of 468 are listed.