Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1808?

121 of the people we track were surely alive in 1808. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1808: Andrew Johnson and Napoleon III.

  1. Napoleon39
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe59
  3. Ludwig van Beethoven36–40
  4. Victor Hugo6
  5. Alexander Pushkin9
  6. Hans Christian Andersen3
  7. Thomas Jefferson65
  8. Lord Byron20
  9. Jane Austen33
  10. Carl Friedrich Gauss31
  11. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel38
  12. John Adams73
  13. Francisco Goya62
  14. Michael Faraday17
  15. Katsushika Hokusai48
  16. James Madison57
  17. Honoré de Balzac9
  18. Simón Bolívar25
  19. Arthur Schopenhauer20
  20. Alexandre Dumas6
  21. Franz Schubert11
  22. Heinrich Heine11
  23. John Quincy Adams41
  24. Andrew Jackson41
  25. William Blake51
  26. James Watt72
  27. Joseph Haydn76
  28. James Monroe50
  29. Ralph Waldo Emerson5
  30. John Stuart Mill2
  31. Martin Van Buren26
  32. Andrew Johnsonborn
  33. Zachary Taylor24
  34. James Buchanan17
  35. John Keats13
  36. James K. Polk13
  37. John Tyler18
  38. Percy Bysshe Shelley16
  39. Alexander von Humboldt39
  40. William Wordsworth38
  41. Millard Fillmore8
  42. William Henry Harrison35
  43. Walter Scott37
  44. Franklin Pierce4
  45. Benjamin Disraeli4
  46. Stendhal25
  47. George Sand4
  48. Thomas Paine71
  49. Hector Berlioz5
  50. Joseph Fourier40
  51. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres28
  52. Mary Shelley11
  53. Auguste Comte10
  54. Giuseppe Garibaldi1
  55. Adam Mickiewicz10
  56. Napoleon IIIborn
  57. Pierre-Simon Laplace59
  58. Samuel Taylor Coleridge36
  59. Eugène Delacroix10
  60. André-Marie Ampère33
  61. Thomas Carlyle13
  62. Alessandro Volta63
  63. Nathaniel Hawthorne4
  64. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1
  65. Alexis de Tocqueville3
  66. William Herschel70
  67. Edward Jenner59
  68. Johann Gottlieb Fichte46
  69. Charles Babbage17
  70. John Dalton42
  71. Giacomo Leopardi10
  72. Alexander I of Russia31
  73. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck64
  74. Ludwig Feuerbach4
  75. Washington Irving25
  76. Alphonse de Lamartine18
  77. Pius IX16
  78. George III of Great Britain70
  79. Carl von Clausewitz28
  80. Alessandro Manzoni23
  81. Gioachino Rossini16
  82. Joseph Smith3
  83. Marquis de Sade68
  84. Jeremy Bentham60
  85. Thomas Robert Malthus42
  86. Nicholas I of Russia12
  87. Joseph-Louis Lagrange72
  88. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington39
  89. Niccolò Paganini26
  90. Georg Simon Ohm19
  91. Robert E. Lee1
  92. Humphry Davy30
  93. Shaka Zulu19–23
  94. Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky16
  95. Hans Christian Ørsted31
  96. Giuseppe Mazzini3
  97. Gregory XVI43
  98. Wilhelm von Humboldt41
  99. David Ricardo36
  100. Samuel Finley Breese Morse17
  101. Niels Henrik Abel6
  102. Pius VII66
  103. William IV43
  104. Friedrich Hölderlin38
  105. Amedeo Avogadro32
  106. Prosper Mérimée5
  107. Klemens von Metternich35
  108. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord54
  109. Jacques-Louis David60
  110. George IV of the United Kingdom46
  111. François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand40
  112. James Fenimore Cooper19
  113. Leo XII48
  114. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling33
  115. E. T. A. Hoffmann32
  116. Wilhelm I11
  117. Max Stirner2
  118. Thomas Young35
  119. Caspar David Friedrich34
  120. Henry Cavendish77

The 120 best known of 121 are listed.