Pulse No. 10 · Friday, November 6, 2026

Alive on August 15, 1886

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

Alive that day

1Albert EinsteinAge 7 · 1879–1955

2Vladimir LeninAge 16 · 1870–1924

3Mahatma GandhiAge 16 · 1869–1948

4Leo TolstoyAge 57 · 1828–1910

5Joseph StalinAge 7 · 1878–1953

6Vincent van GoghAge 33 · 1853–1890

7Pablo PicassoAge 4 · 1881–1973

8Winston ChurchillAge 11 · 1874–1965

9Friedrich NietzscheAge 41 · 1844–1900

10Thomas EdisonAge 39 · 1847–1931

11Sigmund FreudAge 30 · 1856–1939

12Mark TwainAge 50 · 1835–1910

13Marie CurieAge 18 · 1867–1934

14Rabindranath TagoreAge 25 · 1861–1941

15Franklin Delano RooseveltAge 4 · 1882–1945

16Anton ChekhovAge 26 · 1860–1904

17Franz KafkaAge 3 · 1883–1924

18Oscar WildeAge 31 · 1854–1900

19Nikola TeslaAge 30 · 1856–1943

20Otto von BismarckAge 71 · 1815–1898

21Louis PasteurAge 63 · 1822–1895

22James JoyceAge 4 · 1882–1941

23Henry FordAge 23 · 1863–1947

24Benito MussoliniAge 3 · 1883–1945

25Friedrich EngelsAge 65 · 1820–1895

26Harry S. TrumanAge 2 · 1884–1972

27Sarah BernhardtAge 41 · 1844–1923

28Alfred NobelAge 52 · 1833–1896

29Theodore RooseveltAge 27 · 1858–1919

30Pyotr Ilyich TchaikovskyAge 46 · 1840–1893

31Marcel ProustAge 15 · 1871–1922

32Roald AmundsenAge 14 · 1872–1928

33Jules VerneAge 58 · 1828–1905

34Rosa LuxemburgAge 15 · 1871–1919

35Woodrow WilsonAge 29 · 1856–1924

36Rudyard KiplingAge 20 · 1865–1936

37George Bernard ShawAge 30 · 1856–1950

38John Maynard KeynesAge 3 · 1883–1946

39Bertrand RussellAge 14 · 1872–1970

40Leon TrotskyAge 6 · 1879–1940

Close calls: not alive

1Erwin SchrödingerBorn 12 months later · 1887–1961

2Emily DickinsonDied 92 days earlier · 1830–1886

3David Ben-GurionBorn 62 days later · 1886–1973

4Franz LisztDied 15 days earlier · 1811–1886

5Marc ChagallBorn 11 months later · 1887–1985

6Shmuel Yosef AgnonBorn 12 months later · 1887–1970

7Saint-John PerseBorn 9 months later · 1887–1975

8Marcel DuchampBorn 11 months later · 1887–1968

9Gustav Ludwig HertzBorn 11 months later · 1887–1975

10Diego RiveraBorn 115 days later · 1886–1957

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