Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1809?

129 of the people we track were surely alive in 1809. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1809: Abraham Lincoln, Charles Darwin, Edgar Allan Poe, Nikolai Gogol, Felix Mendelssohn, Alfred Tennyson, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and William Ewart Gladstone.

Died in 1809: Joseph Haydn and Thomas Paine.

  1. Abraham Lincolnborn
  2. Napoleon40
  3. Charles Darwinborn
  4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe60
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven37–41
  6. Victor Hugo7
  7. Alexander Pushkin10
  8. Hans Christian Andersen4
  9. Thomas Jefferson66
  10. Edgar Allan Poeborn
  11. Lord Byron21
  12. Jane Austen34
  13. Carl Friedrich Gauss32
  14. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel39
  15. John Adams74
  16. Francisco Goya63
  17. Michael Faraday18
  18. Katsushika Hokusai49
  19. James Madison58
  20. Honoré de Balzac10
  21. Simón Bolívar26
  22. Arthur Schopenhauer21
  23. Alexandre Dumas7
  24. Franz Schubert12
  25. Heinrich Heine12
  26. John Quincy Adams42
  27. Andrew Jackson42
  28. William Blake52
  29. James Watt73
  30. Joseph Haydn77 †
  31. James Monroe51
  32. Nikolai Gogolborn
  33. Ralph Waldo Emerson6
  34. John Stuart Mill3
  35. Martin Van Buren27
  36. Andrew Johnson1
  37. Zachary Taylor25
  38. James Buchanan18
  39. John Keats14
  40. James K. Polk14
  41. John Tyler19
  42. Percy Bysshe Shelley17
  43. Alexander von Humboldt40
  44. William Wordsworth39
  45. Millard Fillmore9
  46. William Henry Harrison36
  47. Walter Scott38
  48. Franklin Pierce5
  49. Benjamin Disraeli5
  50. Stendhal26
  51. George Sand5
  52. Thomas Paine72 †
  53. Hector Berlioz6
  54. Joseph Fourier41
  55. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres29
  56. Mary Shelley12
  57. Auguste Comte11
  58. Giuseppe Garibaldi2
  59. Adam Mickiewicz11
  60. Napoleon III1
  61. Pierre-Simon Laplace60
  62. Felix Mendelssohnborn
  63. Samuel Taylor Coleridge37
  64. Eugène Delacroix11
  65. André-Marie Ampère34
  66. Thomas Carlyle14
  67. Alfred Tennysonborn
  68. Alessandro Volta64
  69. Nathaniel Hawthorne5
  70. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow2
  71. Alexis de Tocqueville4
  72. William Herschel71
  73. Edward Jenner60
  74. Johann Gottlieb Fichte47
  75. Charles Babbage18
  76. John Dalton43
  77. Giacomo Leopardi11
  78. Alexander I of Russia32
  79. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck65
  80. Ludwig Feuerbach5
  81. Washington Irving26
  82. Alphonse de Lamartine19
  83. Pius IX17
  84. George III of Great Britain71
  85. Carl von Clausewitz29
  86. Alessandro Manzoni24
  87. Gioachino Rossini17
  88. Pierre-Joseph Proudhonborn
  89. Joseph Smith4
  90. Marquis de Sade69
  91. Jeremy Bentham61
  92. Thomas Robert Malthus43
  93. Nicholas I of Russia13
  94. Joseph-Louis Lagrange73
  95. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington40
  96. Niccolò Paganini27
  97. Georg Simon Ohm20
  98. Robert E. Lee2
  99. Humphry Davy31
  100. Shaka Zulu20–24
  101. Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky17
  102. William Ewart Gladstoneborn
  103. Hans Christian Ørsted32
  104. Giuseppe Mazzini4
  105. Gregory XVI44
  106. Wilhelm von Humboldt42
  107. David Ricardo37
  108. Samuel Finley Breese Morse18
  109. Niels Henrik Abel7
  110. Pius VII67
  111. William IV44
  112. Friedrich Hölderlin39
  113. Amedeo Avogadro33
  114. Prosper Mérimée6
  115. Klemens von Metternich36
  116. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord55
  117. Jacques-Louis David61
  118. George IV of the United Kingdom47
  119. François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand41
  120. James Fenimore Cooper20

The 120 best known of 129 are listed.