Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1925?

498 of the people we track were surely alive in 1925. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1925: Margaret Thatcher, Mahathir Mohamad, Malcolm X, Pol Pot, Patrice Lumumba, Giorgio Napolitano, Yukio Mishima and Paul Newman.

Died in 1925: Sun Yat-sen, Sergei Yesenin, Władysław Reymont and Gottlob Frege.

  1. Adolf Hitler36
  2. Albert Einstein46
  3. Ronald Reagan14
  4. Nelson Mandela7
  5. Mahatma Gandhi56
  6. Joseph Stalin47
  7. Pablo Picasso44
  8. Winston Churchill51
  9. Charlie Chaplin36
  10. Thomas Edison78
  11. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk44–46
  12. Sigmund Freud69
  13. John F. Kennedy8
  14. Marie Curie58
  15. Salvador Dalí21
  16. Rabindranath Tagore64
  17. Franklin Delano Roosevelt43
  18. Mao Zedong32
  19. Charles de Gaulle35
  20. Nikola Tesla69
  21. Walt Disney24
  22. George Orwell22
  23. Ernest Hemingway26
  24. Margaret Thatcherborn
  25. James Joyce43
  26. John Paul II5
  27. J. R. R. Tolkien33
  28. Albert Camus12
  29. Henry Ford62
  30. Marlene Dietrich24
  31. Benito Mussolini42
  32. Jean-Paul Sartre20
  33. Le Corbusier38
  34. Frida Kahlo18
  35. Mother Teresa15
  36. Jimmy Carter1
  37. Harry S. Truman41
  38. Agatha Christie35
  39. George H. W. Bush1
  40. Jorge Luis Borges26
  41. Jawaharlal Nehru36
  42. Dwight D. Eisenhower35
  43. Roald Amundsen53
  44. Alan Turing13
  45. Richard Nixon12
  46. Rudyard Kipling60
  47. Alfred Hitchcock26
  48. Simone de Beauvoir17
  49. George Bernard Shaw69
  50. John Maynard Keynes42
  51. Niels Bohr40
  52. Bertrand Russell53
  53. Leon Trotsky46
  54. Max Planck67
  55. Arthur Conan Doyle66
  56. Maxim Gorky57
  57. Henri Matisse56
  58. Frank Lloyd Wright58
  59. Louis Armstrong24
  60. Virginia Woolf43
  61. Akira Kurosawa15
  62. Lyndon B. Johnson17
  63. Gerald Ford12
  64. Ernest Rutherford54
  65. Ludwig Wittgenstein36
  66. Indira Gandhi8
  67. Huang Xianfan26
  68. Enrico Fermi24
  69. Naguib Mahfouz14
  70. Nikita Khrushchev31
  71. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry25
  72. H. G. Wells59
  73. Helen Keller45
  74. Pablo Neruda21
  75. Igor Stravinsky43
  76. David Hilbert63
  77. Thomas Mann50
  78. Erwin Schrödinger38
  79. Herbert Hoover51
  80. Hermann Hesse48
  81. Isaac Asimov5–6
  82. Ingmar Bergman7
  83. Federico Fellini5
  84. Mahathir Mohamadborn
  85. Calvin Coolidge53
  86. Kim Il-sung13
  87. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn7
  88. T. S. Eliot37
  89. Kahlil Gibran42
  90. Kwame Nkrumah16
  91. Marlon Brando1
  92. Hirohito24
  93. Richard Feynman7
  94. Claude Monet85
  95. Selma Lagerlöf67
  96. Bertolt Brecht27
  97. William Butler Yeats60
  98. Ho Chi Minh35
  99. Judy Garland3
  100. Sun Yat-sen58 †
  101. Carl Jung50
  102. Vladimir Nabokov26
  103. Eleanor Roosevelt41
  104. B. R. Ambedkar34
  105. Martin Heidegger36
  106. John Steinbeck23
  107. William Howard Taft68
  108. Konrad Adenauer49
  109. William Faulkner28
  110. Sergei Eisenstein27
  111. Édith Piaf10
  112. André Gide56
  113. Aldous Huxley31
  114. Satyajit Ray4
  115. Henry Kissinger2
  116. Federico García Lorca27
  117. Pearl S. Buck33
  118. Georges Pompidou14
  119. Boris Pasternak35
  120. Romain Rolland59

The 120 best known of 498 are listed.