PulsePlay today’sPulse No. 8 · Wednesday, November 4, 2026
Alive on August 31, 1935
The 40 most famous people alive that day, then the close calls that would have cost you a point.
Alive that day
1Adolf HitlerAge 46 · 1889–1945
2Albert EinsteinAge 56 · 1879–1955
3Ronald ReaganAge 24 · 1911–2004
4Nelson MandelaAge 17 · 1918–2013
5Mahatma GandhiAge 65 · 1869–1948
6Joseph StalinAge 56 · 1878–1953
7Pablo PicassoAge 53 · 1881–1973
8Winston ChurchillAge 60 · 1874–1965
9Charlie ChaplinAge 46 · 1889–1977
10Elizabeth IIAge 9 · 1926–2022
11Sigmund FreudAge 79 · 1856–1939
12John F. KennedyAge 18 · 1917–1963
13Martin Luther King Jr.Age 6 · 1929–1968
14Rabindranath TagoreAge 74 · 1861–1941
15Salvador DalíAge 31 · 1904–1989
16Franklin Delano RooseveltAge 53 · 1882–1945
17Marilyn MonroeAge 9 · 1926–1962
18Mao ZedongAge 41 · 1893–1976
19Che GuevaraAge 7 · 1928–1967
20Charles de GaulleAge 44 · 1890–1970
21Neil ArmstrongAge 5 · 1930–2012
22Nikola TeslaAge 79 · 1856–1943
23Walt DisneyAge 33 · 1901–1966
24George OrwellAge 32 · 1903–1950
25John Paul IIAge 15 · 1920–2005
26Ernest HemingwayAge 36 · 1899–1961
27Gabriel García MárquezAge 8 · 1927–2014
28James JoyceAge 53 · 1882–1941
29Margaret ThatcherAge 9 · 1925–2013
30Fidel CastroAge 9 · 1926–2016
31Yuri GagarinAge 1 · 1934–1968
32Albert CamusAge 21 · 1913–1960
33J. R. R. TolkienAge 43 · 1892–1973
34Marlene DietrichAge 33 · 1901–1992
35Henry FordAge 72 · 1863–1947
36Jean-Paul SartreAge 30 · 1905–1980
37Mikhail GorbachevAge 4 · 1931–2022
38Benito MussoliniAge 52 · 1883–1945
39Benedict XVIAge 8 · 1927–2022
40Frida KahloAge 28 · 1907–1954
Close calls: not alive
1Woody AllenBorn 91 days later · Born 1935
2Alain DelonBorn 69 days later · 1935–2024
3John McCainBorn 12 months later · 1936–2018
4Mario Vargas LlosaBorn 7 months later · 1936–2025
5Luciano PavarottiBorn 42 days later · 1935–2007
6Salman bin Abdulaziz Al SaudBorn 4 months later · Born 1935
7Jane AddamsDied 101 days earlier · 1860–1935
8Mahmoud AbbasBorn 76 days later · Born 1935
9Julie AndrewsBorn 31 days later · Born 1935
10Pranab MukherjeeBorn 102 days later · 1935–2020
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