Who was alive in 1823?
166 of the people we track were surely alive in 1823. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.
Born in 1823: Alfred Russel Wallace and Sándor Petőfi.
Died in 1823: Edward Jenner, David Ricardo and Pius VII.
- Karl Marx5
- Abraham Lincoln14
- Charles Darwin14
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe74
- Ludwig van Beethoven51–55
- Victor Hugo21
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky2
- Charles Dickens11
- Alexander Pushkin24
- Hans Christian Andersen18
- Thomas Jefferson80
- Edgar Allan Poe14
- Lord Byron35
- Otto von Bismarck8
- Louis Pasteur1
- Richard Wagner10
- Carl Friedrich Gauss46
- Frédéric Chopin13
- Friedrich Engels3
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel53
- John Adams88
- Francisco Goya77
- Michael Faraday32
- Giuseppe Verdi10
- Charles Baudelaire2
- Katsushika Hokusai63
- James Madison72
- Honoré de Balzac24
- Simón Bolívar40
- Arthur Schopenhauer35
- Victoria4
- Alexandre Dumas21
- Franz Schubert26
- Søren Kierkegaard10
- Heinrich Heine26
- John Quincy Adams56
- Andrew Jackson56
- William Blake66
- Gustave Flaubert2
- Ulysses S. Grant1
- James Monroe65
- Nikolai Gogol14
- Ralph Waldo Emerson20
- Ivan Turgenev5
- John Stuart Mill17
- Florence Nightingale3
- Walt Whitman4
- Martin Van Buren41
- Andrew Johnson15
- Henry David Thoreau6
- Zachary Taylor39
- James Buchanan32
- James K. Polk28
- John Tyler33
- Mikhail Bakunin9
- Alexander von Humboldt54
- William Wordsworth53
- Millard Fillmore23
- William Henry Harrison50
- Walter Scott52
- Franklin Pierce19
- Rutherford B. Hayes1
- Benjamin Disraeli19
- Taras Shevchenko9
- George Eliot4
- Stendhal40
- George Sand19
- Hector Berlioz20
- Charlotte Brontë7
- James Prescott Joule5
- Gregor Mendel1
- Joseph Fourier55
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres43
- Mary Shelley26
- Auguste Comte25
- Ada Lovelace8
- Giuseppe Garibaldi16
- Robert Schumann13
- Emily Brontë5
- Herman Melville4
- Adam Mickiewicz25
- Napoleon III15
- Mikhail Lermontov9
- Pierre-Simon Laplace74
- Franz Liszt12
- Theodor Mommsen6
- Felix Mendelssohn14
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge51
- Eugène Delacroix25
- André-Marie Ampère48
- Herbert Spencer3
- Thomas Carlyle28
- Alfred Tennyson14
- Harriet Beecher Stowe12
- Alessandro Volta78
- Nathaniel Hawthorne19
- John Ruskin4
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow16
- Alexis de Tocqueville18
- Leo XIII13
- Edward Jenner73 †
- Charles Babbage32
- John Dalton57
- Giacomo Leopardi25
- Alexander I of Russia46
- Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck79
- Ludwig Feuerbach19
- Washington Irving40
- Alphonse de Lamartine33
- Pius IX31
- Carl von Clausewitz43
- Alessandro Manzoni38
- Gioachino Rossini31
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon14
- Joseph Smith18
- Alfred Russel Wallaceborn
- Jeremy Bentham75
- Thomas Robert Malthus57
- Nicholas I of Russia27
- Alexander II of Russia5
The 120 best known of 166 are listed.