Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1923?

488 of the people we track were surely alive in 1923. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1923: Henry Kissinger, Shimon Peres, Nadine Gordimer, Wisława Szymborska, Kuan Yew Lee, Charlton Heston, Maria Meneghini Callas and Heydar Aliyev.

Died in 1923: Sarah Bernhardt, Wilhelm Röntgen, Warren G. Harding, Gustave Eiffel, Johannes Diderik van der Waals and Jaroslav Hašek.

  1. Adolf Hitler34
  2. Albert Einstein44
  3. Ronald Reagan12
  4. Vladimir Lenin53
  5. Nelson Mandela5
  6. Mahatma Gandhi54
  7. Joseph Stalin45
  8. Pablo Picasso42
  9. Winston Churchill49
  10. Charlie Chaplin34
  11. Thomas Edison76
  12. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk42–44
  13. Sigmund Freud67
  14. John F. Kennedy6
  15. Marie Curie56
  16. Salvador Dalí19
  17. Rabindranath Tagore62
  18. Franklin Delano Roosevelt41
  19. Franz Kafka40
  20. Mao Zedong30
  21. Charles de Gaulle33
  22. Nikola Tesla67
  23. Walt Disney22
  24. George Orwell20
  25. Ernest Hemingway24
  26. James Joyce41
  27. John Paul II3
  28. J. R. R. Tolkien31
  29. Albert Camus10
  30. Henry Ford60
  31. Marlene Dietrich22
  32. Benito Mussolini40
  33. Jean-Paul Sartre18
  34. Le Corbusier36
  35. Frida Kahlo16
  36. Mother Teresa13
  37. Harry S. Truman39
  38. Agatha Christie33
  39. Jorge Luis Borges24
  40. Sarah Bernhardt78 †
  41. Jawaharlal Nehru34
  42. Dwight D. Eisenhower33
  43. Woodrow Wilson67
  44. Roald Amundsen51
  45. Alan Turing11
  46. Richard Nixon10
  47. Rudyard Kipling58
  48. Alfred Hitchcock24
  49. Simone de Beauvoir15
  50. George Bernard Shaw67
  51. John Maynard Keynes40
  52. Niels Bohr38
  53. Bertrand Russell51
  54. Leon Trotsky44
  55. Max Planck65
  56. Arthur Conan Doyle64
  57. Maxim Gorky55
  58. Henri Matisse54
  59. Frank Lloyd Wright56
  60. Louis Armstrong22
  61. Virginia Woolf41
  62. Akira Kurosawa13
  63. Lyndon B. Johnson15
  64. Gerald Ford10
  65. Ernest Rutherford52
  66. Ludwig Wittgenstein34
  67. Indira Gandhi6
  68. Huang Xianfan24
  69. Enrico Fermi22
  70. Naguib Mahfouz12
  71. Nikita Khrushchev29
  72. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry23
  73. H. G. Wells57
  74. Helen Keller43
  75. Pablo Neruda19
  76. Igor Stravinsky41
  77. David Hilbert61
  78. Thomas Mann48
  79. Erwin Schrödinger36
  80. Herbert Hoover49
  81. Hermann Hesse46
  82. Isaac Asimov3–4
  83. Ingmar Bergman5
  84. Federico Fellini3
  85. Anatole France79
  86. Calvin Coolidge51
  87. Kim Il-sung11
  88. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn5
  89. T. S. Eliot35
  90. Kahlil Gibran40
  91. Kwame Nkrumah14
  92. Wilhelm Röntgen77 †
  93. Hirohito22
  94. Richard Feynman5
  95. Claude Monet83
  96. Selma Lagerlöf65
  97. Bertolt Brecht25
  98. William Butler Yeats58
  99. Ho Chi Minh33
  100. Judy Garland1
  101. Sun Yat-sen57
  102. Carl Jung48
  103. Vladimir Nabokov24
  104. Eleanor Roosevelt39
  105. B. R. Ambedkar32
  106. Martin Heidegger34
  107. John Steinbeck21
  108. William Howard Taft66
  109. Giacomo Puccini65
  110. Konrad Adenauer47
  111. William Faulkner26
  112. Sergei Eisenstein25
  113. Édith Piaf8
  114. André Gide54
  115. Aldous Huxley29
  116. Satyajit Ray2
  117. Henry Kissingerborn
  118. Federico García Lorca25
  119. Pearl S. Buck31
  120. Georges Pompidou12

The 120 best known of 488 are listed.