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Who was alive in 1900?

2,462 well-known people were alive in 1900, including Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin. Here are the 80 most notable:

• Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) — dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945, main instigator of World War II (1889–1945)
• Albert Einstein (1879–1955) — German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
• Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) — founding leader of the Soviet Union (1870–1924)
• Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) — Indian independence activist (1869–1948)
• Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) — Russian author (1828–1910)
• Joseph Stalin (1878–1953) — leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953
• Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) — Spanish painter and sculptor (1881–1973)
• Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) — English comic actor and filmmaker (1889–1977)
• Winston Churchill (1874–1965) — British statesman, soldier and writer (1874–1965)
• Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) — German philosopher (1844-1900)
• Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881–1938) — founding father of the Republic of Turkey (c. 1881–1938)
• Mark Twain (1835–1910) — American author and humorist (1835–1910)
• Thomas Edison (1847–1931) — American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
• Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) — Austrian psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis (1856–1939)
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945) — president of the United States from 1933 to 1945 (1882–1945)
• Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) — Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941)
• Marie Curie (1867–1934) — Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
• Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) — Russian dramatist and author (1860–1904)
• Franz Kafka (1883–1924) — Bohemian writer from Prague (1883–1924)
• Mao Zedong (1893–1976) — 1st chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and founder of the People's Republic of China (1893–1976)
• Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) — Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)
• Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970) — French general and statesman (1890–1970)
• Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) — Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856–1943)
• Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) — American author and journalist (1899–1961)
• James Joyce (1882–1941) — Irish novelist and poet (1882–1941)
• J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973) — English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
• Benito Mussolini (1883–1945) — dictator of Italy from 1922 to 1945
• Henry Ford (1863–1947) — American business magnate (1863–1947)
• Le Corbusier (1887–1965) — Swiss-French architect, designer, urbanist, and writer (1886–1965)
• Harry S. Truman (1884–1972) — president of the United States from 1945 to 1953; politician (1884–1972)
• Agatha Christie (1890–1976) — English mystery and detective writer (1890–1976)
• Sarah Bernhardt (1844–1923) — French stage actress, painter and sculptor (1844–1923)
• Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) — 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909 (1858–1919)
• Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) — Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator (1899–1986)
• Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964) — Prime Minister of India from 1947 to 1964
• Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) — president of the United States from 1953 to 1961 (1890–1969)
• Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) — president of the United States from 1913 to 1921 (1856–1924)
• Roald Amundsen (1872–1928) — Norwegian explorer; first person to reach the South Pole (1872–1928)
• Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) — English writer and poet (1865–1936)
• Marcel Proust (1871–1922) — French novelist, critic and essayist (1871–1922)
• Jules Verne (1828–1905) — French writer (1828–1905)
• Rosa Luxemburg (1871–1919) — Polish-German Marxist revolutionary (1871–1919)
• George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) — Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856–1950)
• Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) — British philosopher and logician (1872–1970)
• Niels Bohr (1885–1962) — Danish physicist (1885–1962)
• Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) — British filmmaker (1899–1980)
• John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) — British economist (1883–1946)
• Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) — British writer and physician (1859–1930)
• Max Planck (1858–1947) — German theoretical physicist (1858–1947)
• Maxim Gorky (1868–1936) — Russian and Soviet writer (1868–1936)
• Leon Trotsky (1879–1940) — Russian Marxist revolutionary (1879–1940)
• Dmitri Mendeleev (1834–1907) — Russian chemist (1834–1907)
• Henri Matisse (1869–1954) — French artist (1869-1954)
• Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901) — Italian opera composer (1813–1901)
• Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) — American architect (1867-1959)
• Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) — English modernist writer (1882–1941)
• Victoria (1819–1901) — Queen of the United Kingdom from 1837 to 1901 (1819-1901)
• Huang Xianfan (1899–1982) — Chinese historian, ethnologist and educator (1899-1982)
• Max Weber (1864–1920) — German sociologist, philosopher, and political economist (1864–1920)
• Ernest Rutherford (1871–1937) — New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
• Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) — Austrian philosopher and logician (1889–1951)
• Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971) — leader of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964
• Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906) — Norwegian playwright and theatre director (1828–1906)
• H. G. Wells (1866–1946) — English writer (1866–1946)
• Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944) — French writer and aviator (1900–1944)
• Émile Zola (1840–1902) — French novelist, journalist, playwright, and poet (1840–1902)
• Helen Keller (1880–1968) — American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
• Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971) — Russian, French, and American composer (1882–1971)
• David Hilbert (1862–1943) — German mathematician (1862–1943)
• Thomas Mann (1875–1955) — German novelist and Nobel Prize laureate (1875–1955)
• Erwin Schrödinger (1887–1961) — Austrian physicist (1887–1961)
• Anatole France (1844–1924) — French writer (1844–1924)
• Octave Mirbeau (1848–1917) — French writer, art critic and journalist (1848–1917)
• Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) — president of the United States from 1923 to 1929
• Herbert Hoover (1874–1964) — president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 (1874–1964)
• Hermann Hesse (1877–1962) — Nobel Prize winning German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter (1877–1962)
• Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922) — Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
• T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) — US-British poet (1888–1965)
• Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931) — Lebanese-American writer, poet, and painter (1883–1931)
• Wilhelm Röntgen (1845–1923) — German physicist (1845–1923)

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