Pulse No. 4 · Saturday, October 31, 2026

Alive on September 9, 1900

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

Alive that day

1Adolf HitlerAge 11 · 1889–1945

2Albert EinsteinAge 21 · 1879–1955

3Vladimir LeninAge 30 · 1870–1924

4Mahatma GandhiAge 30 · 1869–1948

5Leo TolstoyAge 72 · 1828–1910

6Joseph StalinAge 21 · 1878–1953

7Pablo PicassoAge 18 · 1881–1973

8Winston ChurchillAge 25 · 1874–1965

9Charlie ChaplinAge 11 · 1889–1977

10Thomas EdisonAge 53 · 1847–1931

11Sigmund FreudAge 44 · 1856–1939

12Mark TwainAge 64 · 1835–1910

13Marie CurieAge 32 · 1867–1934

14Rabindranath TagoreAge 39 · 1861–1941

15Franklin Delano RooseveltAge 18 · 1882–1945

16Anton ChekhovAge 40 · 1860–1904

17Franz KafkaAge 17 · 1883–1924

18Mao ZedongAge 6 · 1893–1976

19Oscar WildeDied 82 days later · 1854–1900

20Charles de GaulleAge 9 · 1890–1970

21Nikola TeslaAge 44 · 1856–1943

22Ernest HemingwayAge 1 · 1899–1961

23James JoyceAge 18 · 1882–1941

24J. R. R. TolkienAge 8 · 1892–1973

25Henry FordAge 37 · 1863–1947

26Benito MussoliniAge 17 · 1883–1945

27Le CorbusierAge 12 · 1887–1965

28Agatha ChristieAge 9 · 1890–1976

29Harry S. TrumanAge 16 · 1884–1972

30Sarah BernhardtAge 55 · 1844–1923

31Jorge Luis BorgesAge 1 · 1899–1986

32Jawaharlal NehruAge 10 · 1889–1964

33Theodore RooseveltAge 41 · 1858–1919

34Dwight D. EisenhowerAge 9 · 1890–1969

35Marcel ProustAge 29 · 1871–1922

36Roald AmundsenAge 28 · 1872–1928

37Jules VerneAge 72 · 1828–1905

38Rosa LuxemburgAge 29 · 1871–1919

39Woodrow WilsonAge 43 · 1856–1924

40Alfred HitchcockAge 1 · 1899–1980

Close calls: not alive

1Friedrich NietzscheDied 15 days earlier · 1844–1900

2Louis ArmstrongBorn 11 months later · 1901–1971

3HirohitoBorn 8 months later · 1901–1989

4SukarnoBorn 9 months later · 1901–1970

5Heinrich HimmlerBorn 28 days later · 1900–1945

6John RuskinDied 8 months earlier · 1819–1900

7Linus PaulingBorn 6 months later · 1901–1994

8Clark GableBorn 5 months later · 1901–1960

9Margaret MitchellBorn 60 days later · 1900–1949

10Gary CooperBorn 8 months later · 1901–1961

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