Who was alive in 1820?
163 of the people we track were surely alive in 1820. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.
Born in 1820: Friedrich Engels, Florence Nightingale, Herbert Spencer, Anne Brontë and Susan B. Anthony.
Died in 1820: George III of Great Britain.
- Karl Marx2
- Abraham Lincoln11
- Napoleon51
- Charles Darwin11
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe71
- Ludwig van Beethoven48–52
- Victor Hugo18
- Charles Dickens8
- Alexander Pushkin21
- Hans Christian Andersen15
- Thomas Jefferson77
- Edgar Allan Poe11
- Lord Byron32
- Otto von Bismarck5
- Richard Wagner7
- Carl Friedrich Gauss43
- Frédéric Chopin10
- Friedrich Engelsborn
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel50
- John Adams85
- Francisco Goya74
- Michael Faraday29
- Giuseppe Verdi7
- Katsushika Hokusai60
- James Madison69
- Honoré de Balzac21
- Simón Bolívar37
- Arthur Schopenhauer32
- Victoria1
- Alexandre Dumas18
- Franz Schubert23
- Søren Kierkegaard7
- Heinrich Heine23
- John Quincy Adams53
- Andrew Jackson53
- William Blake63
- James Monroe62
- Nikolai Gogol11
- Ralph Waldo Emerson17
- Ivan Turgenev2
- John Stuart Mill14
- Florence Nightingaleborn
- Walt Whitman1
- Martin Van Buren38
- Andrew Johnson12
- Henry David Thoreau3
- Zachary Taylor36
- James Buchanan29
- John Keats25
- James K. Polk25
- John Tyler30
- Percy Bysshe Shelley28
- Mikhail Bakunin6
- Alexander von Humboldt51
- William Wordsworth50
- Millard Fillmore20
- William Henry Harrison47
- Walter Scott49
- Franklin Pierce16
- Benjamin Disraeli16
- Taras Shevchenko6
- George Eliot1
- Stendhal37
- George Sand16
- Hector Berlioz17
- Charlotte Brontë4
- James Prescott Joule2
- Joseph Fourier52
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres40
- Mary Shelley23
- Auguste Comte22
- Ada Lovelace5
- Giuseppe Garibaldi13
- Robert Schumann10
- Emily Brontë2
- Herman Melville1
- Adam Mickiewicz22
- Napoleon III12
- Mikhail Lermontov6
- Pierre-Simon Laplace71
- Franz Liszt9
- Theodor Mommsen3
- Felix Mendelssohn11
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge48
- Eugène Delacroix22
- André-Marie Ampère45
- Herbert Spencerborn
- Thomas Carlyle25
- Alfred Tennyson11
- Harriet Beecher Stowe9
- Alessandro Volta75
- Nathaniel Hawthorne16
- John Ruskin1
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow13
- Alexis de Tocqueville15
- Leo XIII10
- William Herschel82
- Edward Jenner71
- Charles Babbage29
- John Dalton54
- Giacomo Leopardi22
- Alexander I of Russia43
- Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck76
- Ludwig Feuerbach16
- Washington Irving37
- Alphonse de Lamartine30
- Pius IX28
- George III of Great Britain81 †
- Carl von Clausewitz40
- Alessandro Manzoni35
- Gioachino Rossini28
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon11
- Joseph Smith15
- Jeremy Bentham72
- Thomas Robert Malthus54
- Nicholas I of Russia24
- Alexander II of Russia2
- Anne Brontëborn
- Baháʼu'lláh3
- Jacques Offenbach1
The 120 best known of 163 are listed.