Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1803?

113 of the people we track were surely alive in 1803. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1803: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Hector Berlioz and Prosper Mérimée.

Died in 1803: Johann Gottfried Herder.

  1. Napoleon34
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe54
  3. Ludwig van Beethoven31–35
  4. Victor Hugo1
  5. Immanuel Kant79
  6. Alexander Pushkin4
  7. Thomas Jefferson60
  8. Lord Byron15
  9. Jane Austen28
  10. Carl Friedrich Gauss26
  11. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel33
  12. John Adams68
  13. Francisco Goya57
  14. Friedrich Schiller44
  15. Michael Faraday12
  16. Katsushika Hokusai43
  17. James Madison52
  18. Honoré de Balzac4
  19. Simón Bolívar20
  20. Arthur Schopenhauer15
  21. Alexandre Dumas1
  22. Franz Schubert6
  23. Heinrich Heine6
  24. John Quincy Adams36
  25. Andrew Jackson36
  26. William Blake46
  27. James Watt67
  28. Joseph Haydn71
  29. James Monroe45
  30. Ralph Waldo Emersonborn
  31. Martin Van Buren21
  32. Zachary Taylor19
  33. James Buchanan12
  34. John Keats8
  35. James K. Polk8
  36. John Tyler13
  37. Percy Bysshe Shelley11
  38. Alexander von Humboldt34
  39. William Wordsworth33
  40. Millard Fillmore3
  41. William Henry Harrison30
  42. Walter Scott32
  43. Stendhal20
  44. Thomas Paine66
  45. Hector Berliozborn
  46. Joseph Fourier35
  47. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres23
  48. Mary Shelley6
  49. Auguste Comte5
  50. Adam Mickiewicz5
  51. Pierre-Simon Laplace54
  52. Samuel Taylor Coleridge31
  53. Eugène Delacroix5
  54. André-Marie Ampère28
  55. Thomas Carlyle8
  56. Alessandro Volta58
  57. William Herschel65
  58. Edward Jenner54
  59. Johann Gottlieb Fichte41
  60. Charles Babbage12
  61. John Dalton37
  62. Giacomo Leopardi5
  63. Alexander I of Russia26
  64. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck59
  65. Washington Irving20
  66. Alphonse de Lamartine13
  67. Pius IX11
  68. George III of Great Britain65
  69. Carl von Clausewitz23
  70. Alessandro Manzoni18
  71. Gioachino Rossini11
  72. Marquis de Sade63
  73. Jeremy Bentham55
  74. Thomas Robert Malthus37
  75. Nicholas I of Russia7
  76. Horatio Nelson45
  77. Joseph-Louis Lagrange67
  78. Alexander Hamilton46
  79. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington34
  80. Niccolò Paganini21
  81. Georg Simon Ohm14
  82. Johann Gottfried Herder59 †
  83. Humphry Davy25
  84. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb67
  85. Shaka Zulu14–18
  86. Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky11
  87. Hans Christian Ørsted26
  88. Gregory XVI38
  89. Wilhelm von Humboldt36
  90. David Ricardo31
  91. Samuel Finley Breese Morse12
  92. Niels Henrik Abel1
  93. Isabelle de Charrière63
  94. Pius VII61
  95. William IV38
  96. Friedrich Hölderlin33
  97. Amedeo Avogadro27
  98. Prosper Mériméeborn
  99. Klemens von Metternich30
  100. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord49
  101. Jacques-Louis David55
  102. George IV of the United Kingdom41
  103. François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand35
  104. Joseph Priestley70
  105. James Fenimore Cooper14
  106. Leo XII43
  107. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling28
  108. E. T. A. Hoffmann27
  109. Wilhelm I6
  110. Thomas Young30
  111. Caspar David Friedrich29
  112. Henry Cavendish72
  113. Germaine de Staël37