Who was alive in 1920?

2,869 well-known people were alive in 1920, including Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan. 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)
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) — president of the United States from 1981 to 1989 and actor (1911–2004)
Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) — founding leader of the Soviet Union (1870–1924)
Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) — President of South Africa and anti-apartheid activist (1918–2013)
Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) — Indian independence activist (1869–1948)
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)
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881–1938) — founding father of the Republic of Turkey (c. 1881–1938)
Thomas Edison (1847–1931) — American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) — president of the United States from 1961 to 1963 (1917–1963)
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) — Austrian psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis (1856–1939)
Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) — Spanish artist (1904–1989)
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)
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)
Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970) — French general and statesman (1890–1970)
Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) — Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856–1943)
Walt Disney (1901–1966) — American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901–1966)
George Orwell (1903–1950) — British writer and journalist (1903–1950)
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) — American author and journalist (1899–1961)
Albert Camus (1913–1960) — French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913–1960)
James Joyce (1882–1941) — Irish novelist and poet (1882–1941)
John Paul II (1920–2005) — 264th pope of the Catholic Church (1978–2005)
J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973) — English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
Benito Mussolini (1883–1945) — dictator of Italy from 1922 to 1945
Marlene Dietrich (1901–1992) — German and American actress and singer (1901–1992)
Henry Ford (1863–1947) — American business magnate (1863–1947)
Le Corbusier (1887–1965) — Swiss-French architect, designer, urbanist, and writer (1886–1965)
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980) — French existentialist philosopher (1905–1980)
Mother Teresa (1910–1997) — Albanian-Indian Catholic nun and missionary (1910–1997)
Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) — Mexican painter (1907–1954)
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)
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)
Alan Turing (1912–1954) — English computer scientist (1912–1954)
Richard Nixon (1913–1994) — president of the United States from 1969 to 1974 (1913–1994)
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) — English writer and poet (1865–1936)
Marcel Proust (1871–1922) — French novelist, critic and essayist (1871–1922)
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)
Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) — French philosopher, social theorist and activist (1908–1986)
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)
Henri Matisse (1869–1954) — French artist (1869-1954)
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) — American architect (1867-1959)
Louis Armstrong (1901–1971) — American jazz musician, trumpeter and singer (1901–1971)
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973) — president of the United States from 1963 to 1969 (1908–1973)
Gerald Ford (1913–2006) — president of the United States from 1974 to 1977 (1913–2006)
Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) — English modernist writer (1882–1941)
Akira Kurosawa (1910–1998) — Japanese filmmaker (1910–1998)
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)
Naguib Mahfouz (1911–2006) — Egyptian writer (1911–2006)
Indira Gandhi (1917–1984) — Prime Minister of India (1966-1977; 1980-1984)
Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971) — leader of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964
H. G. Wells (1866–1946) — English writer (1866–1946)
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944) — French writer and aviator (1900–1944)
Enrico Fermi (1901–1954) — Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)
Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) — Chilean poet and politician (1904-1973)
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)

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