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Who Was Alive in 1897

106 of 492 historical figures were alive in 1897

Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe VerdiAge 84
1813–1901 · Music
La Traviata, Aida — operatic master
Otto von Bismarck
Otto von BismarckAge 82
1815–1898 · Politics & Leadership
Unified Germany, the Iron Chancellor
Queen Victoria
Queen VictoriaAge 78
1819–1901 · Politics & Leadership
Longest-reigning British monarch of her era
Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. AnthonyAge 77
1820–1906 · Activism & Social Change
Women's suffrage pioneer
Florence Nightingale
Florence NightingaleAge 77
1820–1910 · Activism & Social Change
Founder of modern nursing
Harriet Tubman
Harriet TubmanAge about 75
1822–1913 · Activism & Social Change
Underground Railroad conductor
Jules Verne
Jules VerneAge 69
1828–1905 · Literature
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Leo Tolstoy
Leo TolstoyAge 69
1828–1910 · Literature
War and Peace, Anna Karenina
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik IbsenAge 69
1828–1906 · Literature
Norwegian playwright of A Doll's House
Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri MendeleevAge 63
1834–1907 · Science & Invention
Created the periodic table of elements
Mark Twain
Mark TwainAge 62
1835–1910 · Literature
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew CarnegieAge 62
1835–1919 · Business & Industry
Steel magnate, philanthropist
John D. Rockefeller
John D. RockefellerAge 58
1839–1937 · Business & Industry
Standard Oil tycoon, among the richest Americans in history
Claude Monet
Claude MonetAge 57
1840–1926 · Art
Water Lilies, father of Impressionism
Émile Zola
Émile ZolaAge 57
1840–1902 · Literature
French novelist who wrote J'Accuse
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste RenoirAge 56
1841–1919 · Art
Impressionist painter of joyful scenes
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich NietzscheAge 53
1844–1900 · Philosophy & Thought
"God is dead," Beyond Good and Evil
Sarah Bernhardt
Sarah BernhardtAge 53
1844–1923 · Film & Entertainment
French stage actress of worldwide fame
Thomas Edison
Thomas EdisonAge 50
1847–1931 · Science & Invention
Light bulb, phonograph, 1000+ patents
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham BellAge 50
1847–1922 · Science & Invention
Invented the telephone
Paul Gauguin
Paul GauguinAge 49
1848–1903 · Art
Post-Impressionist painter of Tahiti
Antoni Gaudí
Antoni GaudíAge 45
1852–1926 · Art
Sagrada Família architect
Oscar Wilde
Oscar WildeAge 43
1854–1900 · Literature
The Picture of Dorian Gray, wit and charm
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund FreudAge 41
1856–1939 · Philosophy & Thought
Father of psychoanalysis
Nikola Tesla
Nikola TeslaAge 41
1856–1943 · Science & Invention
AC electricity, visionary inventor
Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow WilsonAge 41
1856–1924 · Politics & Leadership
28th US President, League of Nations
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard ShawAge 41
1856–1950 · Literature
Irish playwright of Pygmalion
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore RooseveltAge 39
1858–1919 · Politics & Leadership
26th US President, Rough Rider
Emmeline Pankhurst
Emmeline PankhurstAge 39
1858–1928 · Activism & Social Change
British suffragette leader
Max Planck
Max PlanckAge 39
1858–1947 · Science & Invention
Father of quantum theory
Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan DoyleAge 38
1859–1930 · Literature
Creator of Sherlock Holmes
Anton Chekhov
Anton ChekhovAge 37
1860–1904 · Literature
Russian playwright and short-story master
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath TagoreAge 36
1861–1941 · Literature
First non-European Nobel laureate in Literature
Gustav Klimt
Gustav KlimtAge 35
1862–1918 · Art
The Kiss, Art Nouveau master
Claude Debussy
Claude DebussyAge 35
1862–1918 · Music
Clair de Lune, Impressionist music
David Hilbert
David HilbertAge 35
1862–1943 · Science & Invention
German mathematician of Hilbert's problems
Henry Ford
Henry FordAge 34
1863–1947 · Business & Industry
Assembly line, Model T automobile
Edvard Munch
Edvard MunchAge 34
1863–1944 · Art
The Scream
Max Weber
Max WeberAge 33
1864–1920 · Philosophy & Thought
A founder of modern sociology
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard KiplingAge 32
1865–1936 · Literature
Author of The Jungle Book, Nobel laureate
H.G. Wells
H.G. WellsAge 31
1866–1946 · Literature
The War of the Worlds, science fiction pioneer
Sun Yat-sen
Sun Yat-senAge 31
1866–1925 · Politics & Leadership
Father of the Republic of China
Marie Curie
Marie CurieAge 30
1867–1934 · Science & Invention
Radioactivity, first woman Nobel laureate
Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd WrightAge 30
1867–1959 · Art
American architect of Fallingwater
Scott Joplin
Scott JoplinAge 29
1868–1917 · Music
King of Ragtime
Maxim Gorky
Maxim GorkyAge 29
1868–1936 · Literature
Russian writer of The Lower Depths
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma GandhiAge 28
1869–1948 · Politics & Leadership
Nonviolent independence leader of India
Grigori Rasputin
Grigori RasputinAge 28
1869–1916 · Politics & Leadership
Mystic who influenced the Russian royal family
Henri Matisse
Henri MatisseAge 28
1869–1954 · Art
Leader of Fauvism, master of color and cut-outs
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir LeninAge 27
1870–1924 · Politics & Leadership
Bolshevik leader of the October Revolution
Marcel Proust
Marcel ProustAge 26
1871–1922 · Literature
In Search of Lost Time
Orville Wright
Orville WrightAge 26
1871–1948 · Science & Invention
Co-inventor of the airplane
Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa LuxemburgAge 26
1871–1919 · Activism & Social Change
Marxist theorist and revolutionary
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest RutherfordAge 26
1871–1937 · Science & Invention
Father of nuclear physics
Roald Amundsen
Roald AmundsenAge 25
1872–1928 · Exploration
First to reach the South Pole
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand RussellAge 25
1872–1970 · Philosophy & Thought
Logician, philosopher and Nobel laureate
Ernest Shackleton
Ernest ShackletonAge 23
1874–1922 · Exploration
Heroic Antarctic explorer, Endurance expedition
Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo MarconiAge 23
1874–1937 · Science & Invention
Pioneer of long-distance radio
Winston Churchill
Winston ChurchillAge 23
1874–1965 · Politics & Leadership
British PM who led WWII effort
Harry Houdini
Harry HoudiniAge 23
1874–1926 · Film & Entertainment
Legendary escape artist & illusionist
Carl Jung
Carl JungAge 22
1875–1961 · Philosophy & Thought
Analytical psychology, archetypes
Albert Schweitzer
Albert SchweitzerAge 22
1875–1965 · Philosophy & Thought
Nobel Peace Prize physician, theologian and organist
Thomas Mann
Thomas MannAge 22
1875–1955 · Literature
German novelist of The Magic Mountain
Pancho Villa
Pancho VillaAge 19
1878–1923 · Politics & Leadership
Mexican revolutionary general
Lise Meitner
Lise MeitnerAge 19
1878–1968 · Science & Invention
Discovered nuclear fission, overlooked for Nobel
Joseph Stalin
Joseph StalinAge 19
1878–1953 · Politics & Leadership
Leader of the Soviet Union 1924–1953
Albert Einstein
Albert EinsteinAge 18
1879–1955 · Science & Invention
Theory of relativity, E=mc²
Leon Trotsky
Leon TrotskyAge 18
1879–1940 · Politics & Leadership
Russian revolutionary, founder of the Red Army
Helen Keller
Helen KellerAge 17
1880–1968 · Activism & Social Change
Deafblind author and activist, The Story of My Life
Pablo Picasso
Pablo PicassoAge 16
1881–1973 · Art
Cubism, Guernica, most prolific artist
Alexander Fleming
Alexander FlemingAge 16
1881–1955 · Science & Invention
Discovered penicillin
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Mustafa Kemal AtatürkAge 16
1881–1938 · Politics & Leadership
Founder and first president of modern Turkey
Virginia Woolf
Virginia WoolfAge 15
1882–1941 · Literature
Mrs Dalloway, modernist pioneer
James Joyce
James JoyceAge 15
1882–1941 · Literature
Ulysses, literary revolutionary
Igor Stravinsky
Igor StravinskyAge 15
1882–1971 · Music
The Rite of Spring, modern classical
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. RooseveltAge 15
1882–1945 · Politics & Leadership
32nd US President, New Deal, WWII leader
Coco Chanel
Coco ChanelAge 14
1883–1971 · Business & Industry
Fashion icon, Chanel No. 5
Franz Kafka
Franz KafkaAge 14
1883–1924 · Literature
The Metamorphosis, surreal fiction
Benito Mussolini
Benito MussoliniAge 14
1883–1945 · Politics & Leadership
Fascist dictator of Italy 1922–1943
John Maynard Keynes
John Maynard KeynesAge 14
1883–1946 · Philosophy & Thought
Economist who founded Keynesian economics
Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor RooseveltAge 13
1884–1962 · Activism & Social Change
First Lady, UN delegate, human rights champion
Harry S. Truman
Harry S. TrumanAge 13
1884–1972 · Politics & Leadership
33rd US president at the end of World War II
Niels Bohr
Niels BohrAge 12
1885–1962 · Science & Invention
Atomic model, quantum mechanics pioneer
Diego Rivera
Diego RiveraAge 11
1886–1957 · Art
Mexican muralist, political artist
Erwin Schrödinger
Erwin SchrödingerAge 10
1887–1961 · Science & Invention
Schrödinger's cat, wave equation
Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia O'KeeffeAge 10
1887–1986 · Art
Mother of American modernism
Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang Kai-shekAge 10
1887–1975 · Politics & Leadership
Nationalist leader of the Republic of China
Le Corbusier
Le CorbusierAge 10
1887–1965 · Art
Pioneer of modern architecture
T. S. Eliot
T. S. EliotAge 9
1888–1965 · Literature
The Waste Land, Nobel-winning modernist poet
Charlie Chaplin
Charlie ChaplinAge 8
1889–1977 · Film & Entertainment
The Tramp, silent film legend
Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal NehruAge 8
1889–1964 · Politics & Leadership
First Prime Minister of independent India
Adolf Hitler
Adolf HitlerAge 8
1889–1945 · Politics & Leadership
Nazi dictator of Germany 1933–1945
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig WittgensteinAge 8
1889–1951 · Philosophy & Thought
Philosopher of logic and language
Ho Chi Minh
Ho Chi MinhAge 7
1890–1969 · Politics & Leadership
Revolutionary leader of Vietnam
Agatha Christie
Agatha ChristieAge 7
1890–1976 · Literature
Best-selling mystery novelist ever
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. EisenhowerAge 7
1890–1969 · Politics & Leadership
WWII Supreme Commander, 34th US President
Charles de Gaulle
Charles de GaulleAge 7
1890–1970 · Politics & Leadership
Leader of Free France, French President
Haile Selassie
Haile SelassieAge 5
1892–1975 · Politics & Leadership
Emperor of Ethiopia, Rastafari symbol
J.R.R. Tolkien
J.R.R. TolkienAge 5
1892–1973 · Literature
The Lord of the Rings, Middle-earth
Mao Zedong
Mao ZedongAge 4
1893–1976 · Politics & Leadership
Founder of the People's Republic of China
Aldous Huxley
Aldous HuxleyAge 3
1894–1963 · Literature
Author of the dystopian novel Brave New World
Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita KhrushchevAge 3
1894–1971 · Politics & Leadership
Soviet leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Babe Ruth
Babe RuthAge 2
1895–1948 · Sports
Baseball's Sultan of Swat
Buster Keaton
Buster KeatonAge 2
1895–1966 · Film & Entertainment
Silent film comedian, The General
F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott FitzgeraldAge 1
1896–1940 · Literature
The Great Gatsby
Amelia Earhart
Amelia EarhartAge 0
1897–1937 · Exploration
First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic

Born in 1897

Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart
1897–1937 · Exploration
First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic

Also Born in 1897

1897–1962 · born September 25
American writer (1897–1962)
1897–1945 · born October 29
German Nazi propaganda minister (1897–1945)
1897–1978 · born September 26
Head of the Catholic Church from 1963 to 1978
1897–1956 · born September 12
French chemist and physicist (1897–1956)
1897–1977 · born June 12
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1955 to 1957
1897–1968 · born August 11
English children's writer (1897–1968)
1897–1977 · born February 4
Chancellor of West Germany from 1963 to 1966
1897–1982 · born October 3
French poet (1897–1982)
1897–1991 · born May 18
Italian-born American film director (1897–1991)
1897–1967 · born May 27
British physicist (1897–1967)
1897–1972 · born April 23
Prime Minister of Canada from 1963 to 1968
1897–1945 · born January 23
Indian nationalist leader (1897–1945)

Also Died in 1897

1833–1897 · died April 3
German composer and pianist (1833–1897)
1840–1897 · died December 16
French novelist (1840–1897)
1873–1897 · died September 30
French Discalced Carmelite nun and saint (1873–1897)
1815–1897 · died February 19
German mathematician (1815–1897)
1839–1897 · died October 29
American political economist (1839–1897)
1818–1897 · died August 8
Swiss historian (1818–1897)
1814–1897 · died March 15
English mathematician (1814–1897)
1863–1897 · died May 10
Filipino revolutionary leader (1863–1897)
1844–1897 · died May 12
Finnish writer and social activist (1844–1897)
1830–1897 · died October 8
Russian painter
1831–1897 · died March 10
Indian educator and social reformer (1831–1897)
1810–1897 · died March 19
Irish-born Basque explorer, geographer, ethnologist, linguist and astronomer

Sources

  1. 1897 — Wikipedia. Births, deaths and events of the year
  2. Giuseppe Verdi — Wikipedia
  3. Otto von Bismarck — Wikipedia
  4. Queen Victoria — Wikipedia
  5. Susan B. Anthony — Wikipedia
  6. Florence Nightingale — Wikipedia
  7. Harriet Tubman — Wikipedia
  8. Jules Verne — Wikipedia
  9. Leo Tolstoy — Wikipedia
  10. Henrik Ibsen — Wikipedia
  11. Dmitri Mendeleev — Wikipedia
  12. Mark Twain — Wikipedia
  13. Andrew Carnegie — Wikipedia
  14. John D. Rockefeller — Wikipedia
  15. Claude Monet — Wikipedia
  16. Émile Zola — Wikipedia
  17. Pierre-Auguste Renoir — Wikipedia
  18. Friedrich Nietzsche — Wikipedia
  19. Sarah Bernhardt — Wikipedia
  20. Thomas Edison — Wikipedia
  21. Alexander Graham Bell — Wikipedia
  22. Paul Gauguin — Wikipedia
  23. Antoni Gaudí — Wikipedia
  24. Oscar Wilde — Wikipedia
  25. Sigmund Freud — Wikipedia
  26. Nikola Tesla — Wikipedia
  27. Woodrow Wilson — Wikipedia
  28. George Bernard Shaw — Wikipedia
  29. Theodore Roosevelt — Wikipedia
  30. Emmeline Pankhurst — Wikipedia
  31. Max Planck — Wikipedia
  32. Arthur Conan Doyle — Wikipedia
  33. Anton Chekhov — Wikipedia
  34. Rabindranath Tagore — Wikipedia
  35. Gustav Klimt — Wikipedia
  36. Claude Debussy — Wikipedia
  37. David Hilbert — Wikipedia
  38. Henry Ford — Wikipedia
  39. Edvard Munch — Wikipedia
  40. Max Weber — Wikipedia
  41. Rudyard Kipling — Wikipedia
  42. H. G. Wells — Wikipedia
  43. Sun Yat-sen — Wikipedia
  44. Marie Curie — Wikipedia
  45. Frank Lloyd Wright — Wikipedia
  46. Scott Joplin — Wikipedia
  47. Maxim Gorky — Wikipedia
  48. Mahatma Gandhi — Wikipedia
  49. Grigori Rasputin — Wikipedia
  50. Henri Matisse — Wikipedia
  51. Vladimir Lenin — Wikipedia
  52. Marcel Proust — Wikipedia
  53. Wright brothers — Wikipedia
  54. Rosa Luxemburg — Wikipedia
  55. Ernest Rutherford — Wikipedia
  56. Roald Amundsen — Wikipedia
  57. Bertrand Russell — Wikipedia
  58. Ernest Shackleton — Wikipedia
  59. Guglielmo Marconi — Wikipedia
  60. Winston Churchill — Wikipedia
  61. Harry Houdini — Wikipedia
  62. Carl Jung — Wikipedia
  63. Albert Schweitzer — Wikipedia
  64. Thomas Mann — Wikipedia
  65. Pancho Villa — Wikipedia
  66. Lise Meitner — Wikipedia
  67. Joseph Stalin — Wikipedia
  68. Albert Einstein — Wikipedia
  69. Leon Trotsky — Wikipedia
  70. Helen Keller — Wikipedia
  71. Pablo Picasso — Wikipedia
  72. Alexander Fleming — Wikipedia
  73. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk — Wikipedia
  74. Virginia Woolf — Wikipedia
  75. James Joyce — Wikipedia
  76. Igor Stravinsky — Wikipedia
  77. Franklin D. Roosevelt — Wikipedia
  78. Coco Chanel — Wikipedia
  79. Franz Kafka — Wikipedia
  80. Benito Mussolini — Wikipedia
  81. John Maynard Keynes — Wikipedia
  82. Eleanor Roosevelt — Wikipedia
  83. Harry S. Truman — Wikipedia
  84. Niels Bohr — Wikipedia
  85. Diego Rivera — Wikipedia
  86. Erwin Schrödinger — Wikipedia
  87. Georgia O'Keeffe — Wikipedia
  88. Chiang Kai-shek — Wikipedia
  89. Le Corbusier — Wikipedia
  90. T. S. Eliot — Wikipedia
  91. Charlie Chaplin — Wikipedia
  92. Jawaharlal Nehru — Wikipedia
  93. Adolf Hitler — Wikipedia
  94. Ludwig Wittgenstein — Wikipedia
  95. Ho Chi Minh — Wikipedia
  96. Agatha Christie — Wikipedia
  97. Dwight D. Eisenhower — Wikipedia
  98. Charles de Gaulle — Wikipedia
  99. Haile Selassie — Wikipedia
  100. J. R. R. Tolkien — Wikipedia
  101. Mao Zedong — Wikipedia
  102. Aldous Huxley — Wikipedia
  103. Nikita Khrushchev — Wikipedia
  104. Babe Ruth — Wikipedia
  105. Buster Keaton — Wikipedia
  106. F. Scott Fitzgerald — Wikipedia
  107. Amelia Earhart — Wikipedia
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