Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1943?

637 of the people we track were surely alive in 1943. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1943: Lech Wałęsa, Jim Morrison, Robert De Niro, George Harrison, Bobby Fischer, Pervez Musharraf, Mohammad Khatami and John Kerry.

Died in 1943: Nikola Tesla, David Hilbert, Pieter Zeeman, Simone Weil, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Henrik Pontoppidan.

  1. Adolf Hitler54
  2. Albert Einstein64
  3. Ronald Reagan32
  4. Nelson Mandela25
  5. Mahatma Gandhi74
  6. Joseph Stalin65
  7. Joe Biden1
  8. Pablo Picasso62
  9. Winston Churchill69
  10. Charlie Chaplin54
  11. Elizabeth II17
  12. John F. Kennedy26
  13. Martin Luther King Jr.14
  14. Salvador Dalí39
  15. Franklin Delano Roosevelt61
  16. Marilyn Monroe17
  17. Pope Francis7
  18. Mao Zedong50
  19. Che Guevara15
  20. Charles de Gaulle53
  21. Nikola Tesla86 †
  22. Neil Armstrong13
  23. Walt Disney42
  24. Elvis Presley8
  25. George Orwell40
  26. Ernest Hemingway44
  27. Margaret Thatcher18
  28. John Paul II23
  29. Gabriel García Márquez16
  30. Fidel Castro17
  31. J. R. R. Tolkien51
  32. Albert Camus30
  33. Yuri Gagarin9
  34. Henry Ford80
  35. Marlene Dietrich42
  36. Mikhail Gorbachev12
  37. Benito Mussolini60
  38. Jean-Paul Sartre38
  39. Stephen Hawking1
  40. Le Corbusier56
  41. Frida Kahlo36
  42. Mother Teresa33
  43. Jimmy Carter19
  44. Benedict XVI16
  45. Harry S. Truman59
  46. Agatha Christie53
  47. George H. W. Bush19
  48. Jorge Luis Borges44
  49. Jawaharlal Nehru54
  50. Dwight D. Eisenhower53
  51. Alan Turing31
  52. Richard Nixon30
  53. Alfred Hitchcock44
  54. Noam Chomsky15
  55. Simone de Beauvoir35
  56. George Bernard Shaw87
  57. John Maynard Keynes60
  58. Niels Bohr58
  59. Bertrand Russell71
  60. Muammar Gaddafi1
  61. John Lennon3
  62. Bob Dylan2
  63. Max Planck85
  64. Pelé3
  65. Muhammad Ali1
  66. Henri Matisse74
  67. Frank Lloyd Wright76
  68. Andy Warhol15
  69. Louis Armstrong42
  70. Kofi Annan5
  71. Akira Kurosawa33
  72. Lech Wałęsaborn
  73. Lyndon B. Johnson35
  74. Gerald Ford30
  75. Ludwig Wittgenstein54
  76. Indira Gandhi26
  77. Huang Xianfan44
  78. Enrico Fermi42
  79. Naguib Mahfouz32
  80. Nikita Khrushchev49
  81. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry43
  82. Anne Frank14
  83. Saddam Hussein6
  84. H. G. Wells77
  85. Helen Keller63
  86. Tenzin Gyatso8
  87. Pablo Neruda39
  88. Igor Stravinsky61
  89. David Hilbert81 †
  90. Thomas Mann68
  91. Bruce Lee3
  92. Erwin Schrödinger56
  93. Silvio Berlusconi7
  94. Herbert Hoover69
  95. Hermann Hesse66
  96. Isaac Asimov23–24
  97. Ingmar Bergman25
  98. Federico Fellini23
  99. Mahathir Mohamad18
  100. Boris Yeltsin12
  101. Ali Khamenei4
  102. Kim Il-sung31
  103. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn25
  104. Jacques Chirac11
  105. T. S. Eliot55
  106. Stanley Kubrick15
  107. Kwame Nkrumah34
  108. Marlon Brando19
  109. Hirohito42
  110. Richard Feynman25
  111. Woody Allen8
  112. Bertolt Brecht45
  113. Yasser Arafat14
  114. Ho Chi Minh53
  115. Judy Garland21
  116. Carl Jung68
  117. Brigitte Bardot9
  118. Vladimir Nabokov44
  119. Hebe Camargo14
  120. Umberto Eco11

The 120 best known of 637 are listed.