Who was alive in 1801?
109 of the people we track were surely alive in 1801. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.
Died in 1801: Novalis and Paul I of Russia.
- Napoleon32
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe52
- Ludwig van Beethoven29–33
- Immanuel Kant77
- Alexander Pushkin2
- Thomas Jefferson58
- Lord Byron13
- Jane Austen26
- Carl Friedrich Gauss24
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel31
- John Adams66
- Francisco Goya55
- Friedrich Schiller42
- Michael Faraday10
- Katsushika Hokusai41
- James Madison50
- Honoré de Balzac2
- Simón Bolívar18
- Arthur Schopenhauer13
- Franz Schubert4
- Heinrich Heine4
- John Quincy Adams34
- Andrew Jackson34
- William Blake44
- James Watt65
- Joseph Haydn69
- James Monroe43
- Martin Van Buren19
- Zachary Taylor17
- James Buchanan10
- John Keats6
- James K. Polk6
- John Tyler11
- Percy Bysshe Shelley9
- Alexander von Humboldt32
- William Wordsworth31
- Millard Fillmore1
- William Henry Harrison28
- Walter Scott30
- Stendhal18
- Thomas Paine64
- Joseph Fourier33
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres21
- Mary Shelley4
- Auguste Comte3
- Adam Mickiewicz3
- Pierre-Simon Laplace52
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge29
- Eugène Delacroix3
- André-Marie Ampère26
- Thomas Carlyle6
- Alessandro Volta56
- William Herschel63
- Edward Jenner52
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte39
- Novalis28 †
- Charles Babbage10
- John Dalton35
- Giacomo Leopardi3
- Alexander I of Russia24
- Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck57
- Washington Irving18
- Alphonse de Lamartine11
- Pius IX9
- George III of Great Britain63
- Carl von Clausewitz21
- Alessandro Manzoni16
- Gioachino Rossini9
- Marquis de Sade61
- Jeremy Bentham53
- Thomas Robert Malthus35
- Nicholas I of Russia5
- Horatio Nelson43
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange65
- Alexander Hamilton44
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington32
- Niccolò Paganini19
- Georg Simon Ohm12
- Johann Gottfried Herder57
- Humphry Davy23
- Charles-Augustin de Coulomb65
- Shaka Zulu12–16
- Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky9
- Hans Christian Ørsted24
- Gregory XVI36
- Wilhelm von Humboldt34
- David Ricardo29
- Samuel Finley Breese Morse10
- Isabelle de Charrière61
- Pius VII59
- William IV36
- Friedrich Hölderlin31
- Amedeo Avogadro25
- Klemens von Metternich28
- Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord47
- Paul I of Russia46 †
- Jacques-Louis David53
- George IV of the United Kingdom39
- François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand33
- Joseph Priestley68
- James Fenimore Cooper12
- Leo XII41
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling26
- E. T. A. Hoffmann25
- Wilhelm I4
- Thomas Young28
- Caspar David Friedrich27
- Henry Cavendish70
- Germaine de Staël35