Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1941?

613 of the people we track were surely alive in 1941. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1941: Bob Dylan, Bernie Sanders, Kim Jong-il, Richard Dawkins, Sergio Mattarella, Dick Cheney, Alex Ferguson and Hayao Miyazaki.

Died in 1941: Rabindranath Tagore, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Henri Bergson, Wilhelm II, Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell and Marina Tsvetaeva.

  1. Adolf Hitler52
  2. Albert Einstein62
  3. Ronald Reagan30
  4. Nelson Mandela23
  5. Mahatma Gandhi72
  6. Joseph Stalin63
  7. Pablo Picasso60
  8. Winston Churchill67
  9. Charlie Chaplin52
  10. Elizabeth II15
  11. John F. Kennedy24
  12. Martin Luther King Jr.12
  13. Salvador Dalí37
  14. Rabindranath Tagore80 †
  15. Franklin Delano Roosevelt59
  16. Marilyn Monroe15
  17. Pope Francis5
  18. Mao Zedong48
  19. Che Guevara13
  20. Charles de Gaulle51
  21. Nikola Tesla85
  22. Neil Armstrong11
  23. Walt Disney40
  24. Elvis Presley6
  25. George Orwell38
  26. Ernest Hemingway42
  27. Margaret Thatcher16
  28. James Joyce58 †
  29. John Paul II21
  30. Gabriel García Márquez14
  31. Fidel Castro15
  32. J. R. R. Tolkien49
  33. Albert Camus28
  34. Yuri Gagarin7
  35. Henry Ford78
  36. Marlene Dietrich40
  37. Mikhail Gorbachev10
  38. Benito Mussolini58
  39. Jean-Paul Sartre36
  40. Le Corbusier54
  41. Frida Kahlo34
  42. Mother Teresa31
  43. Jimmy Carter17
  44. Benedict XVI14
  45. Harry S. Truman57
  46. Agatha Christie51
  47. George H. W. Bush17
  48. Jorge Luis Borges42
  49. Jawaharlal Nehru52
  50. Dwight D. Eisenhower51
  51. Alan Turing29
  52. Richard Nixon28
  53. Alfred Hitchcock42
  54. Noam Chomsky13
  55. Simone de Beauvoir33
  56. George Bernard Shaw85
  57. John Maynard Keynes58
  58. Niels Bohr56
  59. Bertrand Russell69
  60. John Lennon1
  61. Bob Dylanborn
  62. Max Planck83
  63. Pelé1
  64. Henri Matisse72
  65. Frank Lloyd Wright74
  66. Andy Warhol13
  67. Louis Armstrong40
  68. Kofi Annan3
  69. Virginia Woolf59 †
  70. Akira Kurosawa31
  71. Lyndon B. Johnson33
  72. Gerald Ford28
  73. Ludwig Wittgenstein52
  74. Indira Gandhi24
  75. Huang Xianfan42
  76. Enrico Fermi40
  77. Naguib Mahfouz30
  78. Nikita Khrushchev47
  79. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry41
  80. Anne Frank12
  81. Saddam Hussein4
  82. H. G. Wells75
  83. Helen Keller61
  84. Tenzin Gyatso6
  85. Pablo Neruda37
  86. Igor Stravinsky59
  87. David Hilbert79
  88. Thomas Mann66
  89. Bruce Lee1
  90. Erwin Schrödinger54
  91. Silvio Berlusconi5
  92. Herbert Hoover67
  93. Hermann Hesse64
  94. Isaac Asimov21–22
  95. Ingmar Bergman23
  96. Federico Fellini21
  97. Mahathir Mohamad16
  98. Boris Yeltsin10
  99. Ali Khamenei2
  100. Kim Il-sung29
  101. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn23
  102. Jacques Chirac9
  103. T. S. Eliot53
  104. Stanley Kubrick13
  105. Kwame Nkrumah32
  106. Marlon Brando17
  107. Hirohito40
  108. Richard Feynman23
  109. Woody Allen6
  110. Bertolt Brecht43
  111. Yasser Arafat12
  112. Ho Chi Minh51
  113. Judy Garland19
  114. Carl Jung66
  115. Brigitte Bardot7
  116. Vladimir Nabokov42
  117. Hebe Camargo12
  118. Umberto Eco9
  119. Eleanor Roosevelt57
  120. B. R. Ambedkar50

The 120 best known of 613 are listed.