Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1926?

506 of the people we track were surely alive in 1926. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1926: Elizabeth II, Marilyn Monroe, Fidel Castro, Michel Foucault, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Dario Fo, Harper Lee and Jiang Zemin.

Died in 1926: Claude Monet, Rainer Maria Rilke, Antoni Gaudí, Rudolf Christoph Eucken, Harry Houdini and Heike Kamerlingh Onnes.

  1. Adolf Hitler37
  2. Albert Einstein47
  3. Ronald Reagan15
  4. Nelson Mandela8
  5. Mahatma Gandhi57
  6. Joseph Stalin48
  7. Pablo Picasso45
  8. Winston Churchill52
  9. Charlie Chaplin37
  10. Elizabeth IIborn
  11. Thomas Edison79
  12. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk45–47
  13. Sigmund Freud70
  14. John F. Kennedy9
  15. Marie Curie59
  16. Salvador Dalí22
  17. Rabindranath Tagore65
  18. Franklin Delano Roosevelt44
  19. Marilyn Monroeborn
  20. Mao Zedong33
  21. Charles de Gaulle36
  22. Nikola Tesla70
  23. Walt Disney25
  24. George Orwell23
  25. Ernest Hemingway27
  26. Margaret Thatcher1
  27. James Joyce44
  28. John Paul II6
  29. Fidel Castroborn
  30. J. R. R. Tolkien34
  31. Albert Camus13
  32. Henry Ford63
  33. Marlene Dietrich25
  34. Benito Mussolini43
  35. Jean-Paul Sartre21
  36. Le Corbusier39
  37. Frida Kahlo19
  38. Mother Teresa16
  39. Jimmy Carter2
  40. Harry S. Truman42
  41. Agatha Christie36
  42. George H. W. Bush2
  43. Jorge Luis Borges27
  44. Jawaharlal Nehru37
  45. Dwight D. Eisenhower36
  46. Roald Amundsen54
  47. Alan Turing14
  48. Richard Nixon13
  49. Rudyard Kipling61
  50. Alfred Hitchcock27
  51. Simone de Beauvoir18
  52. George Bernard Shaw70
  53. John Maynard Keynes43
  54. Niels Bohr41
  55. Bertrand Russell54
  56. Leon Trotsky47
  57. Max Planck68
  58. Arthur Conan Doyle67
  59. Maxim Gorky58
  60. Henri Matisse57
  61. Frank Lloyd Wright59
  62. Louis Armstrong25
  63. Virginia Woolf44
  64. Akira Kurosawa16
  65. Lyndon B. Johnson18
  66. Gerald Ford13
  67. Ernest Rutherford55
  68. Ludwig Wittgenstein37
  69. Indira Gandhi9
  70. Huang Xianfan27
  71. Enrico Fermi25
  72. Naguib Mahfouz15
  73. Nikita Khrushchev32
  74. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry26
  75. H. G. Wells60
  76. Helen Keller46
  77. Pablo Neruda22
  78. Igor Stravinsky44
  79. David Hilbert64
  80. Thomas Mann51
  81. Erwin Schrödinger39
  82. Herbert Hoover52
  83. Hermann Hesse49
  84. Isaac Asimov6–7
  85. Ingmar Bergman8
  86. Federico Fellini6
  87. Mahathir Mohamad1
  88. Calvin Coolidge54
  89. Kim Il-sung14
  90. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn8
  91. T. S. Eliot38
  92. Kahlil Gibran43
  93. Kwame Nkrumah17
  94. Marlon Brando2
  95. Hirohito25
  96. Richard Feynman8
  97. Claude Monet86 †
  98. Selma Lagerlöf68
  99. Bertolt Brecht28
  100. William Butler Yeats61
  101. Ho Chi Minh36
  102. Judy Garland4
  103. Carl Jung51
  104. Vladimir Nabokov27
  105. Eleanor Roosevelt42
  106. B. R. Ambedkar35
  107. Martin Heidegger37
  108. John Steinbeck24
  109. William Howard Taft69
  110. Konrad Adenauer50
  111. William Faulkner29
  112. Sergei Eisenstein28
  113. Édith Piaf11
  114. André Gide57
  115. Aldous Huxley32
  116. Satyajit Ray5
  117. Henry Kissinger3
  118. Federico García Lorca28
  119. Pearl S. Buck34
  120. Georges Pompidou15

The 120 best known of 506 are listed.