Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1807?

119 of the people we track were surely alive in 1807. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1807: Giuseppe Garibaldi, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Robert E. Lee.

  1. Napoleon38
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe58
  3. Ludwig van Beethoven35–39
  4. Victor Hugo5
  5. Alexander Pushkin8
  6. Hans Christian Andersen2
  7. Thomas Jefferson64
  8. Lord Byron19
  9. Jane Austen32
  10. Carl Friedrich Gauss30
  11. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel37
  12. John Adams72
  13. Francisco Goya61
  14. Michael Faraday16
  15. Katsushika Hokusai47
  16. James Madison56
  17. Honoré de Balzac8
  18. Simón Bolívar24
  19. Arthur Schopenhauer19
  20. Alexandre Dumas5
  21. Franz Schubert10
  22. Heinrich Heine10
  23. John Quincy Adams40
  24. Andrew Jackson40
  25. William Blake50
  26. James Watt71
  27. Joseph Haydn75
  28. James Monroe49
  29. Ralph Waldo Emerson4
  30. John Stuart Mill1
  31. Martin Van Buren25
  32. Zachary Taylor23
  33. James Buchanan16
  34. John Keats12
  35. James K. Polk12
  36. John Tyler17
  37. Percy Bysshe Shelley15
  38. Alexander von Humboldt38
  39. William Wordsworth37
  40. Millard Fillmore7
  41. William Henry Harrison34
  42. Walter Scott36
  43. Franklin Pierce3
  44. Benjamin Disraeli3
  45. Stendhal24
  46. George Sand3
  47. Thomas Paine70
  48. Hector Berlioz4
  49. Joseph Fourier39
  50. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres27
  51. Mary Shelley10
  52. Auguste Comte9
  53. Giuseppe Garibaldiborn
  54. Adam Mickiewicz9
  55. Pierre-Simon Laplace58
  56. Samuel Taylor Coleridge35
  57. Eugène Delacroix9
  58. André-Marie Ampère32
  59. Thomas Carlyle12
  60. Alessandro Volta62
  61. Nathaniel Hawthorne3
  62. Henry Wadsworth Longfellowborn
  63. Alexis de Tocqueville2
  64. William Herschel69
  65. Edward Jenner58
  66. Johann Gottlieb Fichte45
  67. Charles Babbage16
  68. John Dalton41
  69. Giacomo Leopardi9
  70. Alexander I of Russia30
  71. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck63
  72. Ludwig Feuerbach3
  73. Washington Irving24
  74. Alphonse de Lamartine17
  75. Pius IX15
  76. George III of Great Britain69
  77. Carl von Clausewitz27
  78. Alessandro Manzoni22
  79. Gioachino Rossini15
  80. Joseph Smith2
  81. Marquis de Sade67
  82. Jeremy Bentham59
  83. Thomas Robert Malthus41
  84. Nicholas I of Russia11
  85. Joseph-Louis Lagrange71
  86. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington38
  87. Niccolò Paganini25
  88. Georg Simon Ohm18
  89. Robert E. Leeborn
  90. Humphry Davy29
  91. Shaka Zulu18–22
  92. Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky15
  93. Hans Christian Ørsted30
  94. Giuseppe Mazzini2
  95. Gregory XVI42
  96. Wilhelm von Humboldt40
  97. David Ricardo35
  98. Samuel Finley Breese Morse16
  99. Niels Henrik Abel5
  100. Pius VII65
  101. William IV42
  102. Friedrich Hölderlin37
  103. Amedeo Avogadro31
  104. Prosper Mérimée4
  105. Klemens von Metternich34
  106. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord53
  107. Jacques-Louis David59
  108. George IV of the United Kingdom45
  109. François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand39
  110. James Fenimore Cooper18
  111. Leo XII47
  112. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling32
  113. E. T. A. Hoffmann31
  114. Wilhelm I10
  115. Max Stirner1
  116. Thomas Young34
  117. Caspar David Friedrich33
  118. Henry Cavendish76
  119. Germaine de Staël41