Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1819?

159 of the people we track were surely alive in 1819. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1819: Victoria, Walt Whitman, George Eliot, Herman Melville, John Ruskin and Jacques Offenbach.

Died in 1819: James Watt.

  1. Karl Marx1
  2. Abraham Lincoln10
  3. Napoleon50
  4. Charles Darwin10
  5. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe70
  6. Ludwig van Beethoven47–51
  7. Victor Hugo17
  8. Charles Dickens7
  9. Alexander Pushkin20
  10. Hans Christian Andersen14
  11. Thomas Jefferson76
  12. Edgar Allan Poe10
  13. Lord Byron31
  14. Otto von Bismarck4
  15. Richard Wagner6
  16. Carl Friedrich Gauss42
  17. Frédéric Chopin9
  18. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel49
  19. John Adams84
  20. Francisco Goya73
  21. Michael Faraday28
  22. Giuseppe Verdi6
  23. Katsushika Hokusai59
  24. James Madison68
  25. Honoré de Balzac20
  26. Simón Bolívar36
  27. Arthur Schopenhauer31
  28. Victoriaborn
  29. Alexandre Dumas17
  30. Franz Schubert22
  31. Søren Kierkegaard6
  32. Heinrich Heine22
  33. John Quincy Adams52
  34. Andrew Jackson52
  35. William Blake62
  36. James Watt83 †
  37. James Monroe61
  38. Nikolai Gogol10
  39. Ralph Waldo Emerson16
  40. Ivan Turgenev1
  41. John Stuart Mill13
  42. Walt Whitmanborn
  43. Martin Van Buren37
  44. Andrew Johnson11
  45. Henry David Thoreau2
  46. Zachary Taylor35
  47. James Buchanan28
  48. John Keats24
  49. James K. Polk24
  50. John Tyler29
  51. Percy Bysshe Shelley27
  52. Mikhail Bakunin5
  53. Alexander von Humboldt50
  54. William Wordsworth49
  55. Millard Fillmore19
  56. William Henry Harrison46
  57. Walter Scott48
  58. Franklin Pierce15
  59. Benjamin Disraeli15
  60. Taras Shevchenko5
  61. George Eliotborn
  62. Stendhal36
  63. George Sand15
  64. Hector Berlioz16
  65. Charlotte Brontë3
  66. James Prescott Joule1
  67. Joseph Fourier51
  68. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres39
  69. Mary Shelley22
  70. Auguste Comte21
  71. Ada Lovelace4
  72. Giuseppe Garibaldi12
  73. Robert Schumann9
  74. Emily Brontë1
  75. Herman Melvilleborn
  76. Adam Mickiewicz21
  77. Napoleon III11
  78. Mikhail Lermontov5
  79. Pierre-Simon Laplace70
  80. Franz Liszt8
  81. Theodor Mommsen2
  82. Felix Mendelssohn10
  83. Samuel Taylor Coleridge47
  84. Eugène Delacroix21
  85. André-Marie Ampère44
  86. Thomas Carlyle24
  87. Alfred Tennyson10
  88. Harriet Beecher Stowe8
  89. Alessandro Volta74
  90. Nathaniel Hawthorne15
  91. John Ruskinborn
  92. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow12
  93. Alexis de Tocqueville14
  94. Leo XIII9
  95. William Herschel81
  96. Edward Jenner70
  97. Charles Babbage28
  98. John Dalton53
  99. Giacomo Leopardi21
  100. Alexander I of Russia42
  101. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck75
  102. Ludwig Feuerbach15
  103. Washington Irving36
  104. Alphonse de Lamartine29
  105. Pius IX27
  106. George III of Great Britain81
  107. Carl von Clausewitz39
  108. Alessandro Manzoni34
  109. Gioachino Rossini27
  110. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon10
  111. Joseph Smith14
  112. Jeremy Bentham71
  113. Thomas Robert Malthus53
  114. Nicholas I of Russia23
  115. Alexander II of Russia1
  116. Baháʼu'lláh2
  117. Jacques Offenbachborn
  118. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington50
  119. Niccolò Paganini37
  120. Georg Simon Ohm30

The 120 best known of 159 are listed.