Famous people born in the 19th century

487 people we track were born in the 19th century. The best known are on the timeline.

Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
James Joyce 1882 – 1941
Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
Max Planck 1858 – 1947
Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
Victoria 1819 – 1901
Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
Max Weber 1864 – 1920
Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
Anatole France 1844 – 1924
Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
Nikolai Gogol 1808–1809 – 1851–1852
Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
William Butler Yeats 1865 – 1939
Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
William Faulkner 1897 – 1962
Sergei Eisenstein 1898 – 1948
Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
Jack London 1876 – 1916
Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
André Gide 1869 – 1951
Aldous Huxley 1894 – 1963
Federico García Lorca 1898 – 1936
Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
William McKinley 1843 – 1901
Pearl S. Buck 1892 – 1973
L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
Warren G. Harding 1865 – 1923
Boris Pasternak 1890 – 1960
Romain Rolland 1866 – 1944
Joseph Goebbels 1897 – 1945
Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
George Eliot 1819 – 1880
Henri Bergson 1859 – 1941
Chiang Kai-shek 1887 – 1975
Swami Vivekananda 1863 – 1902
Nicholas II of Russia 1868 – 1918
John XXIII 1881 – 1963
George Sand 1804 – 1876
Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
Golda Meir 1898 – 1978
Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
Knut Hamsun 1859 – 1952
Alexander Fleming 1881 – 1955
Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
Luigi Pirandello 1867 – 1936
Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 – 1926
David Ben-Gurion 1886 – 1973
Francisco Franco 1892 – 1975
Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903
Ruhollah Khomeini 1900–1902 – 1989
Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
Maurice Maeterlinck 1862 – 1949
C. S. Lewis 1898 – 1963
Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
Antoni Gaudí 1852 – 1926
Henri Poincaré 1854 – 1912
Pierre Curie 1859 – 1906
Claude Debussy 1862 – 1918
Anna Akhmatova 1889 – 1966
Wilhelm II 1859 – 1941
Guglielmo Marconi 1874 – 1937
Josip Broz Tito 1892 – 1980
Joseph Conrad 1857 – 1924
Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
Lu Xun 1881 – 1936
Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
Robert Frost 1874 – 1963
Antonio Gramsci 1891 – 1937
Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 – 1910
Emma Goldman 1869 – 1940
Stefan Zweig 1881 – 1942
Amelia Earhart 1897 – 1939
Robert Koch 1843 – 1910
Émile Durkheim 1858 – 1917
Ivan Bunin 1870 – 1953
Gabriela Mistral 1889 – 1957
Paul VI 1897 – 1978
Erich Maria Remarque 1898 – 1970
Yasunari Kawabata 1899 – 1972
Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
Frédéric Mistral 1830 – 1914
William James 1842 – 1910
Ivan Pavlov 1849 – 1936
Vladimir Mayakovsky 1893 – 1930
Giosuè Carducci 1835 – 1907
Sully Prudhomme 1839 – 1907
Gerhart Hauptmann 1862 – 1946
Coco Chanel 1883 – 1971
Albert Schweitzer 1875 – 1965
Pius XII 1876 – 1958
F. Scott Fitzgerald 1896 – 1940
Pius XI 1857 – 1939
John Galsworthy 1867 – 1933
Jean Cocteau 1889 – 1963
George VI 1895 – 1952
Herbert Spencer 1820 – 1903
Joseph John Thomson 1856 – 1940
Edvard Munch 1863 – 1944
Neville Chamberlain 1869 – 1940
Grazia Deledda 1871 – 1936
Max Born 1882 – 1970
Sinclair Lewis 1885 – 1951
Ivo Andrić 1892 – 1975
Heinrich Himmler 1900 – 1945
Thomas Hardy 1840 – 1928
Peter Kropotkin 1842 – 1921
Alfred Tennyson 1809 – 1892
Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
Pius X 1835 – 1914
Paul Verlaine 1844 – 1896
August Strindberg 1849 – 1912
François Mauriac 1885 – 1970
Mikhail Bulgakov 1891 – 1940
Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
John Ruskin 1819 – 1900
Hendrik Lorentz 1853 – 1928
G. K. Chesterton 1874 – 1936
Sigrid Undset 1882 – 1949
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman 1888 – 1970
H. P. Lovecraft 1890 – 1937
Humphrey Bogart 1899 – 1957
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 – 1882
Haile Selassie I 1892 – 1975
Alexis de Tocqueville 1805 – 1859
Leo XIII 1810 – 1903
Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1841 – 1919
Georg Cantor 1845 – 1918
Pierre de Coubertin 1863 – 1937
Edgar Degas 1834 – 1917
William Somerset Maugham 1874 – 1965
Andrew Carnegie 1835 – 1919
Ramakrishna 1836 – 1886
Benedict XV 1854 – 1922
Fridtjof Nansen 1861 – 1930
Douglas MacArthur 1880 – 1964
Erwin Rommel 1891 – 1944
Édouard Manet 1832 – 1883
Louisa May Alcott 1832 – 1888
Carl Benz 1844 – 1929
Heinrich Hertz 1857 – 1894
Irène Joliot-Curie 1897 – 1956
Friedrich Hayek 1899 – 1992
Bernhard Riemann 1826 – 1866
Edvard Grieg 1843 – 1907
Antoine Henri Becquerel 1852 – 1908
Hermann Göring 1893 – 1946
Mae West 1893 – 1980
Ludwig Feuerbach 1804 – 1872
Thomas Henry Huxley 1825 – 1895
John Dewey 1859 – 1952
David Lloyd George 1863 – 1945
Grigori Rasputin 1869 – 1916
Alfred Adler 1870 – 1937
Muhammad Iqbal 1877 – 1938
Ezra Pound 1885 – 1972
Srinivasa Ramanujan 1887 – 1920
Karel Čapek 1890 – 1938
Sergei Yesenin 1895 – 1925
Umm Kulthum 1898–1906 – 1975
George V 1865 – 1936
Edgar de Wahl 1867 – 1948
Mohammad Ali Jinnah 1876 – 1948
Guillaume Apollinaire 1880 – 1918
Edward VIII 1894 – 1972
Al Capone 1899 – 1947
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 1809 – 1865
Edward VII 1841 – 1910
Paul von Hindenburg 1847 – 1934
Clara Zetkin 1857 – 1933
Gabriele D'Annunzio 1863 – 1938
Władysław Reymont 1867 – 1925
Maria Elena 1870 – 1952
Nelly Sachs 1891 – 1970
Georgy Zhukov 1896 – 1974
Joseph Smith 1805 – 1844
Alfred Russel Wallace 1823 – 1913
Alexandre Dumas fils 1824 – 1895
Henry Dunant 1828 – 1910
Alphonse Daudet 1840 – 1897
Bertha von Suttner 1843 – 1914
Bram Stoker 1847 – 1912
Ferdinand de Saussure 1857 – 1913
Gustav Klimt 1862 – 1918
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria 1863 – 1914
Isadora Duncana 1877 – 1927
Clement Attlee 1883 – 1967
D. H. Lawrence 1885 – 1930
Eugene O'Neill 1888 – 1953
Harriet Tubman 1817–1824 – 1913
Alexander II of Russia 1818 – 1881
Anne Brontë 1820 – 1849
Ernst Haeckel 1834 – 1919
Albert Abraham Michelson 1852 – 1931
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell 1857 – 1941
Maurice Ravel 1875 – 1937
Fernando Pessoa 1888 – 1935
Edwin Hubble 1889 – 1953
Joan Miró 1893 – 1983
Jiddu Krishnamurti 1893–1897 – 1986
Baháʼu'lláh 1817 – 1892
Jacques Offenbach 1819 – 1880
Paul Heyse 1830 – 1914
Georges Bizet 1838 – 1875
Jean Sibelius 1865 – 1957
Robert Andrews Millikan 1868 – 1953
George Marshall 1880 – 1959
Jean Piaget 1896 – 1980
Erich Fromm 1900 – 1980
Wolfgang Pauli 1900 – 1958
John D. Rockefeller 1839 – 1937
Abdul Hamid II 1842 – 1918
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky 1857 – 1935
Svante August Arrhenius 1859 – 1927
Theodor Herzl 1860 – 1904
Béla Bartók 1881 – 1945
Juan Ramón Jiménez 1881 – 1958
Robert E. Lee 1807 – 1870
Sándor Petőfi 1823 – c. 1849
Wassily Kandinsky 1866 – 1944
Alexander Blok 1880 – 1921
Marc Chagall 1887 – 1985
Miguel Ángel Asturias 1899 – 1974
Georges Clemenceau 1841 – 1929
Rudolf Christoph Eucken 1846 – 1926
Pieter Zeeman 1865 – 1943
Stefania Turkevych-Lukiianovych 1898 – 1977
Fred Astaire 1899 – 1987
Alfred de Musset 1810 – 1857
David Livingstone 1813 – 1873
Gustave Eiffel 1832 – 1923
Empress Dowager Cixi 1835 – 1908
Johannes Diderik van der Waals 1837 – 1923
Ambrose Bierce 1842 – c. 1914
Edmund Husserl 1859 – 1938
William Henry Bragg 1862 – 1942
Jacinto Benavente 1866 – 1954
Roger Martin du Gard 1881 – 1958
Louis de Broglie 1892 – 1987
Margaret Mitchell 1900 – 1949
William Ewart Gladstone 1809 – 1898
Henry James 1843 – 1916
J. M. Barrie 1860 – 1937
Jane Addams 1860 – 1935
Mary Pickford 1892 – 1979
Zhou Enlai 1898 – 1976
Giuseppe Mazzini 1805 – 1872
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin 1825 – 1907
Franz Joseph I of Austria 1830 – 1916
Alexander III of Russia 1845 – 1894
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff 1852 – 1911
José Martí 1853 – 1895
Alfred North Whitehead 1861 – 1947
Philipp Lenard 1862 – 1947
Aurobindo Ghosh 1872 – 1950
James Chadwick 1891 – 1974
Walter Benjamin 1892 – 1940
Gavrilo Princip 1894 – 1918
Niels Henrik Abel 1802 – 1829
William Makepeace Thackeray 1811 – 1863
Évariste Galois 1811 – 1832
Robert Browning 1812 – 1889
Sitting Bull c. 1831 – 1890
Karl Jaspers 1883 – 1969
Dale Carnegie 1888 – 1955
Vyacheslav Molotov 1890 – 1986
Buster Keaton 1895 – 1966
Prosper Mérimée 1803 – 1870
Karl Ferdinand Braun 1850 – 1918
Philippe Pétain 1856 – 1951
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 1864 – 1901
Józef Piłsudski 1867 – 1935
Emiliano Zapata 1879 – 1919
Paul Klee 1879 – 1940
Marina Tsvetaeva 1892 – 1941
Anthony Eden 1897 – 1977
Alvar Aalto 1898 – 1976
Leopold II of Belgium 1835 – 1909
Cecil John Rhodes 1853 – 1902
O. Henry 1862 – 1910
Wilhelm Wien 1864 – 1928
Harry Houdini 1874 – 1926
Otto Hahn 1879 – 1968
Emmy Noether 1882 – 1935
Yanka Kupala 1882 – 1942
Jaroslav Hašek 1883 – 1923
Shmuel Yosef Agnon 1887 – 1970
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa 1892 – 1927
Lillian Gish 1893 – 1993
Harold Macmillan 1894 – 1986
René Magritte 1898 – 1967
P. T. Barnum 1810 – 1891
Camillo Benso di Cavour 1810 – 1861
John William Strutt 1842 – 1919
Carl Spitteler 1845 – 1924
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk 1850 – 1937
Emperor Meiji 1852 – 1912
Rudolf Diesel 1858 – 1913
Verner von Heidenstam 1859 – 1940
Fritz Haber 1868 – 1934
Lesya Ukrainka 1871 – 1913
Paul Valéry 1871 – 1945
Ibn Saud 1874–1878 – 1953
Groucho Marx 1890 – 1977
Sergei Prokofiev 1891 – 1953
Pär Lagerkvist 1891 – 1974
Louis-Ferdinand Céline 1894 – 1961
Giorgos Seferis 1900 – 1971
George Boole 1815 – 1864
Frederick Douglass 1818 – 1895
Gustav Kirchhoff 1824 – 1887
Gabriel Lippmann 1845 – 1921
Santiago Ramón y Cajal 1852 – 1934
Ronald Ross 1857 – 1932
Lise Meitner 1878 – 1968
Georgia O'Keeffe 1887 – 1986
Henry Miller 1891 – 1980
Eugenio Montale 1896 – 1981
Luis Buñuel 1900 – 1983
Bedřich Smetana 1824 – 1884
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov 1844 – 1908
William Ramsay 1852 – 1916
Richard Strauss 1864 – 1949
Max von Laue 1879 – 1960
Saint-John Perse 1887 – 1975
António de Oliveira Salazar 1889 – 1970
Max Stirner 1806 – 1856
Susan B. Anthony 1820 – 1906
Wilhelm Wundt 1832 – 1920
Alexander Borodin 1833 – 1887
Gottlob Frege 1848 – 1925
Sofia Kovalevskaya 1850 – 1891
Miguel de Unamuno 1864 – 1936
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873 – 1943
Karen Blixen 1885 – 1962
T. E. Lawrence 1888 – 1935
Juan Perón 1895 – 1974
James Cagney 1899 – 1986
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother 1900 – 2002
Anton Bruckner 1824 – 1896
Ernst Mach 1838 – 1916
Ilya Repin 1844 – 1930
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes 1853 – 1926
Karl Adolph Gjellerup 1857 – 1919
Henri Barbusse 1873 – 1935
Mata Hari 1876 – 1917
Marcel Duchamp 1887 – 1968
William Lawrence Bragg 1890 – 1971
Pyotr Kapitsa 1894 – 1984
Arthur Balfour 1848 – 1930
Wilhelm Ostwald 1853 – 1932
Henrik Pontoppidan 1857 – 1943
Johannes V. Jensen 1873 – 1950
Jomo Kenyatta 1893 – 1978
Ludwig Erhard 1897 – 1977
Enid Blyton 1897 – 1968