Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1806?

117 of the people we track were surely alive in 1806. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1806: John Stuart Mill and Max Stirner.

Died in 1806: Charles-Augustin de Coulomb.

  1. Napoleon37
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe57
  3. Ludwig van Beethoven34–38
  4. Victor Hugo4
  5. Alexander Pushkin7
  6. Hans Christian Andersen1
  7. Thomas Jefferson63
  8. Lord Byron18
  9. Jane Austen31
  10. Carl Friedrich Gauss29
  11. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel36
  12. John Adams71
  13. Francisco Goya60
  14. Michael Faraday15
  15. Katsushika Hokusai46
  16. James Madison55
  17. Honoré de Balzac7
  18. Simón Bolívar23
  19. Arthur Schopenhauer18
  20. Alexandre Dumas4
  21. Franz Schubert9
  22. Heinrich Heine9
  23. John Quincy Adams39
  24. Andrew Jackson39
  25. William Blake49
  26. James Watt70
  27. Joseph Haydn74
  28. James Monroe48
  29. Ralph Waldo Emerson3
  30. John Stuart Millborn
  31. Martin Van Buren24
  32. Zachary Taylor22
  33. James Buchanan15
  34. John Keats11
  35. James K. Polk11
  36. John Tyler16
  37. Percy Bysshe Shelley14
  38. Alexander von Humboldt37
  39. William Wordsworth36
  40. Millard Fillmore6
  41. William Henry Harrison33
  42. Walter Scott35
  43. Franklin Pierce2
  44. Benjamin Disraeli2
  45. Stendhal23
  46. George Sand2
  47. Thomas Paine69
  48. Hector Berlioz3
  49. Joseph Fourier38
  50. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres26
  51. Mary Shelley9
  52. Auguste Comte8
  53. Adam Mickiewicz8
  54. Pierre-Simon Laplace57
  55. Samuel Taylor Coleridge34
  56. Eugène Delacroix8
  57. André-Marie Ampère31
  58. Thomas Carlyle11
  59. Alessandro Volta61
  60. Nathaniel Hawthorne2
  61. Alexis de Tocqueville1
  62. William Herschel68
  63. Edward Jenner57
  64. Johann Gottlieb Fichte44
  65. Charles Babbage15
  66. John Dalton40
  67. Giacomo Leopardi8
  68. Alexander I of Russia29
  69. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck62
  70. Ludwig Feuerbach2
  71. Washington Irving23
  72. Alphonse de Lamartine16
  73. Pius IX14
  74. George III of Great Britain68
  75. Carl von Clausewitz26
  76. Alessandro Manzoni21
  77. Gioachino Rossini14
  78. Joseph Smith1
  79. Marquis de Sade66
  80. Jeremy Bentham58
  81. Thomas Robert Malthus40
  82. Nicholas I of Russia10
  83. Joseph-Louis Lagrange70
  84. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington37
  85. Niccolò Paganini24
  86. Georg Simon Ohm17
  87. Humphry Davy28
  88. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb70 †
  89. Shaka Zulu17–21
  90. Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky14
  91. Hans Christian Ørsted29
  92. Giuseppe Mazzini1
  93. Gregory XVI41
  94. Wilhelm von Humboldt39
  95. David Ricardo34
  96. Samuel Finley Breese Morse15
  97. Niels Henrik Abel4
  98. Pius VII64
  99. William IV41
  100. Friedrich Hölderlin36
  101. Amedeo Avogadro30
  102. Prosper Mérimée3
  103. Klemens von Metternich33
  104. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord52
  105. Jacques-Louis David58
  106. George IV of the United Kingdom44
  107. François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand38
  108. James Fenimore Cooper17
  109. Leo XII46
  110. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling31
  111. E. T. A. Hoffmann30
  112. Wilhelm I9
  113. Max Stirnerborn
  114. Thomas Young33
  115. Caspar David Friedrich32
  116. Henry Cavendish75
  117. Germaine de Staël40