Pulse No. 1 · Wednesday, October 28, 2026

Alive on August 15, 1916

The 40 most famous people alive that day, then the close calls that would have cost you a point.

Alive that day

1Adolf HitlerAge 27 · 1889–1945

2Albert EinsteinAge 37 · 1879–1955

3Ronald ReaganAge 5 · 1911–2004

4Vladimir LeninAge 46 · 1870–1924

5Mahatma GandhiAge 46 · 1869–1948

6Joseph StalinAge 37 · 1878–1953

7Pablo PicassoAge 34 · 1881–1973

8Winston ChurchillAge 41 · 1874–1965

9Charlie ChaplinAge 27 · 1889–1977

10Thomas EdisonAge 69 · 1847–1931

11Sigmund FreudAge 60 · 1856–1939

12Marie CurieAge 48 · 1867–1934

13Rabindranath TagoreAge 55 · 1861–1941

14Salvador DalíAge 12 · 1904–1989

15Franklin Delano RooseveltAge 34 · 1882–1945

16Franz KafkaAge 33 · 1883–1924

17Mao ZedongAge 22 · 1893–1976

18Charles de GaulleAge 25 · 1890–1970

19Nikola TeslaAge 60 · 1856–1943

20Walt DisneyAge 14 · 1901–1966

21George OrwellAge 13 · 1903–1950

22Ernest HemingwayAge 17 · 1899–1961

23James JoyceAge 34 · 1882–1941

24Albert CamusAge 2 · 1913–1960

25J. R. R. TolkienAge 24 · 1892–1973

26Marlene DietrichAge 14 · 1901–1992

27Henry FordAge 53 · 1863–1947

28Jean-Paul SartreAge 11 · 1905–1980

29Benito MussoliniAge 33 · 1883–1945

30Frida KahloAge 9 · 1907–1954

31Le CorbusierAge 28 · 1887–1965

32Mother TeresaAge 5 · 1910–1997

33Agatha ChristieAge 25 · 1890–1976

34Harry S. TrumanAge 32 · 1884–1972

35Sarah BernhardtAge 71 · 1844–1923

36Jorge Luis BorgesAge 16 · 1899–1986

37Jawaharlal NehruAge 26 · 1889–1964

38Theodore RooseveltAge 57 · 1858–1919

39Dwight D. EisenhowerAge 25 · 1890–1969

40Marcel ProustAge 45 · 1871–1922

Close calls: not alive

1John F. KennedyBorn 9 months later · 1917–1963

2François MitterrandBorn 72 days later · 1916–1996

3Roald DahlBorn 29 days later · 1916–1990

4Kirk DouglasBorn 116 days later · 1916–2020

5Ella FitzgeraldBorn 8 months later · 1917–1996

6Henry JamesDied 6 months earlier · 1843–1916

7I. M. PeiBorn 8 months later · 1917–2019

8William RamsayDied 23 days earlier · 1852–1916

9Ernst MachDied 6 months earlier · 1838–1916

10Aldo MoroBorn 39 days later · 1916–1978

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