Pulse No. 7 · Tuesday, November 3, 2026

Alive on March 31, 1894

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

Alive that day

1Adolf HitlerAge 4 · 1889–1945

2Albert EinsteinAge 15 · 1879–1955

3Vladimir LeninAge 23 · 1870–1924

4Mahatma GandhiAge 24 · 1869–1948

5Leo TolstoyAge 65 · 1828–1910

6Joseph StalinAge 15 · 1878–1953

7Pablo PicassoAge 12 · 1881–1973

8Winston ChurchillAge 19 · 1874–1965

9Charlie ChaplinAge 4 · 1889–1977

10Friedrich NietzscheAge 49 · 1844–1900

11Thomas EdisonAge 47 · 1847–1931

12Sigmund FreudAge 37 · 1856–1939

13Mark TwainAge 58 · 1835–1910

14Marie CurieAge 26 · 1867–1934

15Rabindranath TagoreAge 32 · 1861–1941

16Franklin Delano RooseveltAge 12 · 1882–1945

17Anton ChekhovAge 34 · 1860–1904

18Franz KafkaAge 10 · 1883–1924

19Oscar WildeAge 39 · 1854–1900

20Charles de GaulleAge 3 · 1890–1970

21Nikola TeslaAge 37 · 1856–1943

22Otto von BismarckAge 78 · 1815–1898

23Louis PasteurAge 71 · 1822–1895

24James JoyceAge 12 · 1882–1941

25J. R. R. TolkienAge 2 · 1892–1973

26Henry FordAge 30 · 1863–1947

27Benito MussoliniAge 10 · 1883–1945

28Friedrich EngelsAge 73 · 1820–1895

29Le CorbusierAge 6 · 1887–1965

30Agatha ChristieAge 3 · 1890–1976

31Harry S. TrumanAge 9 · 1884–1972

32Sarah BernhardtAge 49 · 1844–1923

33Alfred NobelAge 60 · 1833–1896

34Jawaharlal NehruAge 4 · 1889–1964

35Theodore RooseveltAge 35 · 1858–1919

36Dwight D. EisenhowerAge 3 · 1890–1969

37Marcel ProustAge 22 · 1871–1922

38Roald AmundsenAge 21 · 1872–1928

39Jules VerneAge 66 · 1828–1905

40Rosa LuxemburgAge 23 · 1871–1919

Close calls: not alive

1Pyotr Ilyich TchaikovskyDied 5 months earlier · 1840–1893

2Nikita KhrushchevBorn 15 days later · 1894–1971

3Guy de MaupassantDied 9 months earlier · 1850–1893

4Aldous HuxleyBorn 117 days later · 1894–1963

5Heinrich HertzDied 89 days earlier · 1857–1894

6Edward VIIIBorn 84 days later · 1894–1972

7Gavrilo PrincipBorn 116 days later · 1894–1918

8Louis-Ferdinand CélineBorn 57 days later · 1894–1961

9Pyotr KapitsaBorn 99 days later · 1894–1984

10Rudolf HessBorn 26 days later · 1894–1987

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