Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1800?

109 of the people we track were surely alive in 1800. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1800: Millard Fillmore.

  1. Napoleon31
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe51
  3. Ludwig van Beethoven28–32
  4. Immanuel Kant76
  5. Alexander Pushkin1
  6. Thomas Jefferson57
  7. Lord Byron12
  8. Jane Austen25
  9. Carl Friedrich Gauss23
  10. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel30
  11. John Adams65
  12. Francisco Goya54
  13. Friedrich Schiller41
  14. Michael Faraday9
  15. Katsushika Hokusai40
  16. James Madison49
  17. Honoré de Balzac1
  18. Simón Bolívar17
  19. Arthur Schopenhauer12
  20. Franz Schubert3
  21. Heinrich Heine3
  22. John Quincy Adams33
  23. Andrew Jackson33
  24. William Blake43
  25. James Watt64
  26. Joseph Haydn68
  27. James Monroe42
  28. Martin Van Buren18
  29. Zachary Taylor16
  30. James Buchanan9
  31. John Keats5
  32. James K. Polk5
  33. John Tyler10
  34. Percy Bysshe Shelley8
  35. Alexander von Humboldt31
  36. William Wordsworth30
  37. Millard Fillmoreborn
  38. William Henry Harrison27
  39. Walter Scott29
  40. Stendhal17
  41. Thomas Paine63
  42. Joseph Fourier32
  43. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres20
  44. Mary Shelley3
  45. Auguste Comte2
  46. Adam Mickiewicz2
  47. Pierre-Simon Laplace51
  48. Samuel Taylor Coleridge28
  49. Eugène Delacroix2
  50. André-Marie Ampère25
  51. Thomas Carlyle5
  52. Alessandro Volta55
  53. William Herschel62
  54. Edward Jenner51
  55. Johann Gottlieb Fichte38
  56. Novalis28
  57. Charles Babbage9
  58. John Dalton34
  59. Giacomo Leopardi2
  60. Alexander I of Russia23
  61. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck56
  62. Washington Irving17
  63. Alphonse de Lamartine10
  64. Pius IX8
  65. George III of Great Britain62
  66. Carl von Clausewitz20
  67. Alessandro Manzoni15
  68. Gioachino Rossini8
  69. Marquis de Sade60
  70. Jeremy Bentham52
  71. Thomas Robert Malthus34
  72. Nicholas I of Russia4
  73. Horatio Nelson42
  74. Joseph-Louis Lagrange64
  75. Alexander Hamilton43
  76. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington31
  77. Niccolò Paganini18
  78. Georg Simon Ohm11
  79. Johann Gottfried Herder56
  80. Humphry Davy22
  81. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb64
  82. Shaka Zulu11–15
  83. Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky8
  84. Hans Christian Ørsted23
  85. Gregory XVI35
  86. Wilhelm von Humboldt33
  87. David Ricardo28
  88. Samuel Finley Breese Morse9
  89. Isabelle de Charrière60
  90. Pius VII58
  91. William IV35
  92. Friedrich Hölderlin30
  93. Amedeo Avogadro24
  94. Klemens von Metternich27
  95. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord46
  96. Paul I of Russia46
  97. Jacques-Louis David52
  98. George IV of the United Kingdom38
  99. François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand32
  100. Joseph Priestley67
  101. James Fenimore Cooper11
  102. Leo XII40
  103. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling25
  104. E. T. A. Hoffmann24
  105. Wilhelm I3
  106. Thomas Young27
  107. Caspar David Friedrich26
  108. Henry Cavendish69
  109. Germaine de Staël34