Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1932?

563 of the people we track were surely alive in 1932. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1932: Jacques Chirac, Umberto Eco, Elizabeth Taylor, Anatoliy Solovyanenko, Johnny Cash, Manmohan Singh, Sylvia Plath and V. S. Naipaul.

Died in 1932: Ronald Ross and Wilhelm Ostwald.

  1. Adolf Hitler43
  2. Albert Einstein53
  3. Ronald Reagan21
  4. Nelson Mandela14
  5. Mahatma Gandhi63
  6. Joseph Stalin54
  7. Pablo Picasso51
  8. Winston Churchill58
  9. Charlie Chaplin43
  10. Elizabeth II6
  11. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk51–53
  12. Sigmund Freud76
  13. John F. Kennedy15
  14. Marie Curie65
  15. Martin Luther King Jr.3
  16. Salvador Dalí28
  17. Rabindranath Tagore71
  18. Franklin Delano Roosevelt50
  19. Marilyn Monroe6
  20. Mao Zedong39
  21. Che Guevara4
  22. Charles de Gaulle42
  23. Nikola Tesla76
  24. Neil Armstrong2
  25. Walt Disney31
  26. George Orwell29
  27. Ernest Hemingway33
  28. Margaret Thatcher7
  29. James Joyce50
  30. John Paul II12
  31. Gabriel García Márquez5
  32. Fidel Castro6
  33. J. R. R. Tolkien40
  34. Albert Camus19
  35. Henry Ford69
  36. Marlene Dietrich31
  37. Mikhail Gorbachev1
  38. Benito Mussolini49
  39. Jean-Paul Sartre27
  40. Le Corbusier45
  41. Frida Kahlo25
  42. Mother Teresa22
  43. Jimmy Carter8
  44. Benedict XVI5
  45. Harry S. Truman48
  46. Agatha Christie42
  47. George H. W. Bush8
  48. Jorge Luis Borges33
  49. Jawaharlal Nehru43
  50. Dwight D. Eisenhower42
  51. Alan Turing20
  52. Richard Nixon19
  53. Rudyard Kipling67
  54. Alfred Hitchcock33
  55. Noam Chomsky4
  56. Simone de Beauvoir24
  57. George Bernard Shaw76
  58. John Maynard Keynes49
  59. Niels Bohr47
  60. Bertrand Russell60
  61. Leon Trotsky53
  62. Max Planck74
  63. Maxim Gorky64
  64. Henri Matisse63
  65. Frank Lloyd Wright65
  66. Andy Warhol4
  67. Louis Armstrong31
  68. Virginia Woolf50
  69. Akira Kurosawa22
  70. Lyndon B. Johnson24
  71. Gerald Ford19
  72. Ernest Rutherford61
  73. Ludwig Wittgenstein43
  74. Indira Gandhi15
  75. Huang Xianfan33
  76. Enrico Fermi31
  77. Naguib Mahfouz21
  78. Nikita Khrushchev38
  79. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry32
  80. Anne Frank3
  81. H. G. Wells66
  82. Helen Keller52
  83. Pablo Neruda28
  84. Igor Stravinsky50
  85. David Hilbert70
  86. Thomas Mann57
  87. Erwin Schrödinger45
  88. Herbert Hoover58
  89. Hermann Hesse55
  90. Isaac Asimov12–13
  91. Ingmar Bergman14
  92. Federico Fellini12
  93. Mahathir Mohamad7
  94. Calvin Coolidge60
  95. Boris Yeltsin1
  96. Kim Il-sung20
  97. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn14
  98. Jacques Chiracborn
  99. T. S. Eliot44
  100. Stanley Kubrick4
  101. Kwame Nkrumah23
  102. Marlon Brando8
  103. Hirohito31
  104. Richard Feynman14
  105. Selma Lagerlöf74
  106. Bertolt Brecht34
  107. William Butler Yeats67
  108. Yasser Arafat3
  109. Ho Chi Minh42
  110. Judy Garland10
  111. Carl Jung57
  112. Vladimir Nabokov33
  113. Hebe Camargo3
  114. Umberto Ecoborn
  115. Eleanor Roosevelt48
  116. B. R. Ambedkar41
  117. Audrey Hepburn3
  118. Martin Heidegger43
  119. John Steinbeck30
  120. Konrad Adenauer56

The 120 best known of 563 are listed.