Pulse No. 14 · Tuesday, November 10, 2026

Alive on October 9, 1930

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

Alive that day

1Adolf HitlerAge 41 · 1889–1945

2Albert EinsteinAge 51 · 1879–1955

3Ronald ReaganAge 19 · 1911–2004

4Nelson MandelaAge 12 · 1918–2013

5Mahatma GandhiAge 61 · 1869–1948

6Joseph StalinAge 51 · 1878–1953

7Pablo PicassoAge 48 · 1881–1973

8Winston ChurchillAge 55 · 1874–1965

9Charlie ChaplinAge 41 · 1889–1977

10Elizabeth IIAge 4 · 1926–2022

11Thomas EdisonAge 83 · 1847–1931

12Sigmund FreudAge 74 · 1856–1939

13John F. KennedyAge 13 · 1917–1963

14Marie CurieAge 62 · 1867–1934

15Martin Luther King Jr.Age 1 · 1929–1968

16Rabindranath TagoreAge 69 · 1861–1941

17Salvador DalíAge 26 · 1904–1989

18Franklin Delano RooseveltAge 48 · 1882–1945

19Marilyn MonroeAge 4 · 1926–1962

20Mao ZedongAge 36 · 1893–1976

21Che GuevaraAge 2 · 1928–1967

22Charles de GaulleAge 39 · 1890–1970

23Nikola TeslaAge 74 · 1856–1943

24Walt DisneyAge 28 · 1901–1966

25George OrwellAge 27 · 1903–1950

26John Paul IIAge 10 · 1920–2005

27Ernest HemingwayAge 31 · 1899–1961

28Gabriel García MárquezAge 3 · 1927–2014

29James JoyceAge 48 · 1882–1941

30Margaret ThatcherAge 4 · 1925–2013

31Fidel CastroAge 4 · 1926–2016

32Albert CamusAge 16 · 1913–1960

33J. R. R. TolkienAge 38 · 1892–1973

34Marlene DietrichAge 28 · 1901–1992

35Henry FordAge 67 · 1863–1947

36Jean-Paul SartreAge 25 · 1905–1980

37Benito MussoliniAge 47 · 1883–1945

38Benedict XVIAge 3 · 1927–2022

39Frida KahloAge 23 · 1907–1954

40Jimmy CarterAge 6 · 1924–2024

Close calls: not alive

1Mikhail GorbachevBorn 5 months later · 1931–2022

2Arthur Conan DoyleDied 94 days earlier · 1859–1930

3Boris YeltsinBorn 115 days later · 1931–2007

4William Howard TaftDied 7 months earlier · 1857–1930

5Toni MorrisonBorn 4 months later · 1931–2019

6Alice MunroBorn 9 months later · 1931–2024

7Vladimir MayakovskyDied 6 months earlier · 1893–1930

8Desmond TutuBorn 12 months later · 1931–2021

9Fridtjof NansenDied 5 months earlier · 1861–1930

10Harold PinterBorn 1 day later · 1930–2008

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