Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1815?

145 of the people we track were surely alive in 1815. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1815: Otto von Bismarck, Ada Lovelace and George Boole.

  1. Abraham Lincoln6
  2. Napoleon46
  3. Charles Darwin6
  4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe66
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven43–47
  6. Victor Hugo13
  7. Charles Dickens3
  8. Alexander Pushkin16
  9. Hans Christian Andersen10
  10. Thomas Jefferson72
  11. Edgar Allan Poe6
  12. Lord Byron27
  13. Otto von Bismarckborn
  14. Richard Wagner2
  15. Jane Austen40
  16. Carl Friedrich Gauss38
  17. Frédéric Chopin5
  18. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel45
  19. John Adams80
  20. Francisco Goya69
  21. Michael Faraday24
  22. Giuseppe Verdi2
  23. Katsushika Hokusai55
  24. James Madison64
  25. Honoré de Balzac16
  26. Simón Bolívar32
  27. Arthur Schopenhauer27
  28. Alexandre Dumas13
  29. Franz Schubert18
  30. Søren Kierkegaard2
  31. Heinrich Heine18
  32. John Quincy Adams48
  33. Andrew Jackson48
  34. William Blake58
  35. James Watt79
  36. James Monroe57
  37. Nikolai Gogol6
  38. Ralph Waldo Emerson12
  39. John Stuart Mill9
  40. Martin Van Buren33
  41. Andrew Johnson7
  42. Zachary Taylor31
  43. James Buchanan24
  44. John Keats20
  45. James K. Polk20
  46. John Tyler25
  47. Percy Bysshe Shelley23
  48. Mikhail Bakunin1
  49. Alexander von Humboldt46
  50. William Wordsworth45
  51. Millard Fillmore15
  52. William Henry Harrison42
  53. Walter Scott44
  54. Franklin Pierce11
  55. Benjamin Disraeli11
  56. Taras Shevchenko1
  57. Stendhal32
  58. George Sand11
  59. Hector Berlioz12
  60. Joseph Fourier47
  61. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres35
  62. Mary Shelley18
  63. Auguste Comte17
  64. Ada Lovelaceborn
  65. Giuseppe Garibaldi8
  66. Robert Schumann5
  67. Adam Mickiewicz17
  68. Napoleon III7
  69. Mikhail Lermontov1
  70. Pierre-Simon Laplace66
  71. Franz Liszt4
  72. Felix Mendelssohn6
  73. Samuel Taylor Coleridge43
  74. Eugène Delacroix17
  75. André-Marie Ampère40
  76. Thomas Carlyle20
  77. Alfred Tennyson6
  78. Harriet Beecher Stowe4
  79. Alessandro Volta70
  80. Nathaniel Hawthorne11
  81. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow8
  82. Alexis de Tocqueville10
  83. Leo XIII5
  84. William Herschel77
  85. Edward Jenner66
  86. Charles Babbage24
  87. John Dalton49
  88. Giacomo Leopardi17
  89. Alexander I of Russia38
  90. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck71
  91. Ludwig Feuerbach11
  92. Washington Irving32
  93. Alphonse de Lamartine25
  94. Pius IX23
  95. George III of Great Britain77
  96. Carl von Clausewitz35
  97. Alessandro Manzoni30
  98. Gioachino Rossini23
  99. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon6
  100. Joseph Smith10
  101. Jeremy Bentham67
  102. Thomas Robert Malthus49
  103. Nicholas I of Russia19
  104. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington46
  105. Niccolò Paganini33
  106. Georg Simon Ohm26
  107. Robert E. Lee8
  108. Humphry Davy37
  109. Alfred de Musset5
  110. David Livingstone2
  111. Shaka Zulu26–30
  112. Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky23
  113. William Ewart Gladstone6
  114. Hans Christian Ørsted38
  115. Giuseppe Mazzini10
  116. Gregory XVI50
  117. Wilhelm von Humboldt48
  118. David Ricardo43
  119. Samuel Finley Breese Morse24
  120. Niels Henrik Abel13

The 120 best known of 145 are listed.