Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1813?

142 of the people we track were surely alive in 1813. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1813: Richard Wagner, Giuseppe Verdi, Søren Kierkegaard and David Livingstone.

Died in 1813: Joseph-Louis Lagrange.

  1. Abraham Lincoln4
  2. Napoleon44
  3. Charles Darwin4
  4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe64
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven41–45
  6. Victor Hugo11
  7. Charles Dickens1
  8. Alexander Pushkin14
  9. Hans Christian Andersen8
  10. Thomas Jefferson70
  11. Edgar Allan Poe4
  12. Lord Byron25
  13. Richard Wagnerborn
  14. Jane Austen38
  15. Carl Friedrich Gauss36
  16. Frédéric Chopin3
  17. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel43
  18. John Adams78
  19. Francisco Goya67
  20. Michael Faraday22
  21. Giuseppe Verdiborn
  22. Katsushika Hokusai53
  23. James Madison62
  24. Honoré de Balzac14
  25. Simón Bolívar30
  26. Arthur Schopenhauer25
  27. Alexandre Dumas11
  28. Franz Schubert16
  29. Søren Kierkegaardborn
  30. Heinrich Heine16
  31. John Quincy Adams46
  32. Andrew Jackson46
  33. William Blake56
  34. James Watt77
  35. James Monroe55
  36. Nikolai Gogol4
  37. Ralph Waldo Emerson10
  38. John Stuart Mill7
  39. Martin Van Buren31
  40. Andrew Johnson5
  41. Zachary Taylor29
  42. James Buchanan22
  43. John Keats18
  44. James K. Polk18
  45. John Tyler23
  46. Percy Bysshe Shelley21
  47. Alexander von Humboldt44
  48. William Wordsworth43
  49. Millard Fillmore13
  50. William Henry Harrison40
  51. Walter Scott42
  52. Franklin Pierce9
  53. Benjamin Disraeli9
  54. Stendhal30
  55. George Sand9
  56. Hector Berlioz10
  57. Joseph Fourier45
  58. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres33
  59. Mary Shelley16
  60. Auguste Comte15
  61. Giuseppe Garibaldi6
  62. Robert Schumann3
  63. Adam Mickiewicz15
  64. Napoleon III5
  65. Pierre-Simon Laplace64
  66. Franz Liszt2
  67. Felix Mendelssohn4
  68. Samuel Taylor Coleridge41
  69. Eugène Delacroix15
  70. André-Marie Ampère38
  71. Thomas Carlyle18
  72. Alfred Tennyson4
  73. Harriet Beecher Stowe2
  74. Alessandro Volta68
  75. Nathaniel Hawthorne9
  76. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow6
  77. Alexis de Tocqueville8
  78. Leo XIII3
  79. William Herschel75
  80. Edward Jenner64
  81. Johann Gottlieb Fichte51
  82. Charles Babbage22
  83. John Dalton47
  84. Giacomo Leopardi15
  85. Alexander I of Russia36
  86. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck69
  87. Ludwig Feuerbach9
  88. Washington Irving30
  89. Alphonse de Lamartine23
  90. Pius IX21
  91. George III of Great Britain75
  92. Carl von Clausewitz33
  93. Alessandro Manzoni28
  94. Gioachino Rossini21
  95. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon4
  96. Joseph Smith8
  97. Marquis de Sade73
  98. Jeremy Bentham65
  99. Thomas Robert Malthus47
  100. Nicholas I of Russia17
  101. Joseph-Louis Lagrange77 †
  102. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington44
  103. Niccolò Paganini31
  104. Georg Simon Ohm24
  105. Robert E. Lee6
  106. Humphry Davy35
  107. Alfred de Musset3
  108. David Livingstoneborn
  109. Shaka Zulu24–28
  110. Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky21
  111. William Ewart Gladstone4
  112. Hans Christian Ørsted36
  113. Giuseppe Mazzini8
  114. Gregory XVI48
  115. Wilhelm von Humboldt46
  116. David Ricardo41
  117. Samuel Finley Breese Morse22
  118. Niels Henrik Abel11
  119. William Makepeace Thackeray2
  120. Évariste Galois2

The 120 best known of 142 are listed.