Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1930?

547 of the people we track were surely alive in 1930. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1930: Neil Armstrong, Sean Connery, Warren Buffett, Clint Eastwood, Helmut Kohl, Buzz Aldrin, Harold Pinter and Ray Charles.

Died in 1930: Arthur Conan Doyle, William Howard Taft, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Fridtjof Nansen, D. H. Lawrence, Ilya Repin and Arthur Balfour.

  1. Adolf Hitler41
  2. Albert Einstein51
  3. Ronald Reagan19
  4. Nelson Mandela12
  5. Mahatma Gandhi61
  6. Joseph Stalin52
  7. Pablo Picasso49
  8. Winston Churchill56
  9. Charlie Chaplin41
  10. Elizabeth II4
  11. Thomas Edison83
  12. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk49–51
  13. Sigmund Freud74
  14. John F. Kennedy13
  15. Marie Curie63
  16. Martin Luther King Jr.1
  17. Salvador Dalí26
  18. Rabindranath Tagore69
  19. Franklin Delano Roosevelt48
  20. Marilyn Monroe4
  21. Mao Zedong37
  22. Che Guevara2
  23. Charles de Gaulle40
  24. Nikola Tesla74
  25. Neil Armstrongborn
  26. Walt Disney29
  27. George Orwell27
  28. Ernest Hemingway31
  29. Margaret Thatcher5
  30. James Joyce48
  31. John Paul II10
  32. Gabriel García Márquez3
  33. Fidel Castro4
  34. J. R. R. Tolkien38
  35. Albert Camus17
  36. Henry Ford67
  37. Marlene Dietrich29
  38. Benito Mussolini47
  39. Jean-Paul Sartre25
  40. Le Corbusier43
  41. Frida Kahlo23
  42. Mother Teresa20
  43. Jimmy Carter6
  44. Benedict XVI3
  45. Harry S. Truman46
  46. Agatha Christie40
  47. George H. W. Bush6
  48. Jorge Luis Borges31
  49. Jawaharlal Nehru41
  50. Dwight D. Eisenhower40
  51. Alan Turing18
  52. Richard Nixon17
  53. Rudyard Kipling65
  54. Alfred Hitchcock31
  55. Noam Chomsky2
  56. Simone de Beauvoir22
  57. George Bernard Shaw74
  58. John Maynard Keynes47
  59. Niels Bohr45
  60. Bertrand Russell58
  61. Leon Trotsky51
  62. Max Planck72
  63. Arthur Conan Doyle71 †
  64. Maxim Gorky62
  65. Henri Matisse61
  66. Frank Lloyd Wright63
  67. Andy Warhol2
  68. Louis Armstrong29
  69. Virginia Woolf48
  70. Akira Kurosawa20
  71. Lyndon B. Johnson22
  72. Gerald Ford17
  73. Ernest Rutherford59
  74. Ludwig Wittgenstein41
  75. Indira Gandhi13
  76. Huang Xianfan31
  77. Enrico Fermi29
  78. Naguib Mahfouz19
  79. Nikita Khrushchev36
  80. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry30
  81. Anne Frank1
  82. H. G. Wells64
  83. Helen Keller50
  84. Pablo Neruda26
  85. Igor Stravinsky48
  86. David Hilbert68
  87. Thomas Mann55
  88. Erwin Schrödinger43
  89. Herbert Hoover56
  90. Hermann Hesse53
  91. Isaac Asimov10–11
  92. Ingmar Bergman12
  93. Federico Fellini10
  94. Mahathir Mohamad5
  95. Calvin Coolidge58
  96. Kim Il-sung18
  97. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn12
  98. T. S. Eliot42
  99. Stanley Kubrick2
  100. Kahlil Gibran47
  101. Kwame Nkrumah21
  102. Marlon Brando6
  103. Hirohito29
  104. Richard Feynman12
  105. Selma Lagerlöf72
  106. Bertolt Brecht32
  107. William Butler Yeats65
  108. Yasser Arafat1
  109. Ho Chi Minh40
  110. Judy Garland8
  111. Carl Jung55
  112. Vladimir Nabokov31
  113. Hebe Camargo1
  114. Eleanor Roosevelt46
  115. B. R. Ambedkar39
  116. Audrey Hepburn1
  117. Martin Heidegger41
  118. John Steinbeck28
  119. William Howard Taft72 †
  120. Konrad Adenauer54

The 120 best known of 547 are listed.