Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1924?

493 of the people we track were surely alive in 1924. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1924: Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, Marlon Brando, Robert Mugabe, Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, Truman Capote, Lauren Bacall and Marcello Mastroianni.

Died in 1924: Vladimir Lenin, Franz Kafka, Woodrow Wilson, Anatole France, Giacomo Puccini, Joseph Conrad and Carl Spitteler.

  1. Adolf Hitler35
  2. Albert Einstein45
  3. Ronald Reagan13
  4. Vladimir Lenin53 †
  5. Nelson Mandela6
  6. Mahatma Gandhi55
  7. Joseph Stalin46
  8. Pablo Picasso43
  9. Winston Churchill50
  10. Charlie Chaplin35
  11. Thomas Edison77
  12. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk43–45
  13. Sigmund Freud68
  14. John F. Kennedy7
  15. Marie Curie57
  16. Salvador Dalí20
  17. Rabindranath Tagore63
  18. Franklin Delano Roosevelt42
  19. Franz Kafka40 †
  20. Mao Zedong31
  21. Charles de Gaulle34
  22. Nikola Tesla68
  23. Walt Disney23
  24. George Orwell21
  25. Ernest Hemingway25
  26. James Joyce42
  27. John Paul II4
  28. J. R. R. Tolkien32
  29. Albert Camus11
  30. Henry Ford61
  31. Marlene Dietrich23
  32. Benito Mussolini41
  33. Jean-Paul Sartre19
  34. Le Corbusier37
  35. Frida Kahlo17
  36. Mother Teresa14
  37. Jimmy Carterborn
  38. Harry S. Truman40
  39. Agatha Christie34
  40. George H. W. Bushborn
  41. Jorge Luis Borges25
  42. Jawaharlal Nehru35
  43. Dwight D. Eisenhower34
  44. Woodrow Wilson67 †
  45. Roald Amundsen52
  46. Alan Turing12
  47. Richard Nixon11
  48. Rudyard Kipling59
  49. Alfred Hitchcock25
  50. Simone de Beauvoir16
  51. George Bernard Shaw68
  52. John Maynard Keynes41
  53. Niels Bohr39
  54. Bertrand Russell52
  55. Leon Trotsky45
  56. Max Planck66
  57. Arthur Conan Doyle65
  58. Maxim Gorky56
  59. Henri Matisse55
  60. Frank Lloyd Wright57
  61. Louis Armstrong23
  62. Virginia Woolf42
  63. Akira Kurosawa14
  64. Lyndon B. Johnson16
  65. Gerald Ford11
  66. Ernest Rutherford53
  67. Ludwig Wittgenstein35
  68. Indira Gandhi7
  69. Huang Xianfan25
  70. Enrico Fermi23
  71. Naguib Mahfouz13
  72. Nikita Khrushchev30
  73. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry24
  74. H. G. Wells58
  75. Helen Keller44
  76. Pablo Neruda20
  77. Igor Stravinsky42
  78. David Hilbert62
  79. Thomas Mann49
  80. Erwin Schrödinger37
  81. Herbert Hoover50
  82. Hermann Hesse47
  83. Isaac Asimov4–5
  84. Ingmar Bergman6
  85. Federico Fellini4
  86. Anatole France80 †
  87. Calvin Coolidge52
  88. Kim Il-sung12
  89. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn6
  90. T. S. Eliot36
  91. Kahlil Gibran41
  92. Kwame Nkrumah15
  93. Marlon Brandoborn
  94. Hirohito23
  95. Richard Feynman6
  96. Claude Monet84
  97. Selma Lagerlöf66
  98. Bertolt Brecht26
  99. William Butler Yeats59
  100. Ho Chi Minh34
  101. Judy Garland2
  102. Sun Yat-sen58
  103. Carl Jung49
  104. Vladimir Nabokov25
  105. Eleanor Roosevelt40
  106. B. R. Ambedkar33
  107. Martin Heidegger35
  108. John Steinbeck22
  109. William Howard Taft67
  110. Giacomo Puccini65 †
  111. Konrad Adenauer48
  112. William Faulkner27
  113. Sergei Eisenstein26
  114. Édith Piaf9
  115. André Gide55
  116. Aldous Huxley30
  117. Satyajit Ray3
  118. Henry Kissinger1
  119. Federico García Lorca26
  120. Pearl S. Buck32

The 120 best known of 493 are listed.