Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1824?

168 of the people we track were surely alive in 1824. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1824: Alexandre Dumas fils, Gustav Kirchhoff, Bedřich Smetana and Anton Bruckner.

Died in 1824: Lord Byron.

  1. Karl Marx6
  2. Abraham Lincoln15
  3. Charles Darwin15
  4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe75
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven52–56
  6. Victor Hugo22
  7. Fyodor Dostoyevsky3
  8. Charles Dickens12
  9. Alexander Pushkin25
  10. Hans Christian Andersen19
  11. Thomas Jefferson81
  12. Edgar Allan Poe15
  13. Lord Byron36 †
  14. Otto von Bismarck9
  15. Louis Pasteur2
  16. Richard Wagner11
  17. Carl Friedrich Gauss47
  18. Frédéric Chopin14
  19. Friedrich Engels4
  20. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel54
  21. John Adams89
  22. Francisco Goya78
  23. Michael Faraday33
  24. Giuseppe Verdi11
  25. Charles Baudelaire3
  26. Katsushika Hokusai64
  27. James Madison73
  28. Honoré de Balzac25
  29. Simón Bolívar41
  30. Arthur Schopenhauer36
  31. Victoria5
  32. Alexandre Dumas22
  33. Franz Schubert27
  34. Søren Kierkegaard11
  35. Heinrich Heine27
  36. John Quincy Adams57
  37. Andrew Jackson57
  38. William Blake67
  39. Gustave Flaubert3
  40. Ulysses S. Grant2
  41. James Monroe66
  42. Nikolai Gogol15
  43. Ralph Waldo Emerson21
  44. Ivan Turgenev6
  45. John Stuart Mill18
  46. Florence Nightingale4
  47. Walt Whitman5
  48. Martin Van Buren42
  49. Andrew Johnson16
  50. Henry David Thoreau7
  51. Zachary Taylor40
  52. James Buchanan33
  53. James K. Polk29
  54. John Tyler34
  55. Mikhail Bakunin10
  56. Alexander von Humboldt55
  57. William Wordsworth54
  58. Millard Fillmore24
  59. William Henry Harrison51
  60. Walter Scott53
  61. Franklin Pierce20
  62. Rutherford B. Hayes2
  63. Benjamin Disraeli20
  64. Taras Shevchenko10
  65. George Eliot5
  66. Stendhal41
  67. George Sand20
  68. Hector Berlioz21
  69. Charlotte Brontë8
  70. James Prescott Joule6
  71. Gregor Mendel2
  72. Joseph Fourier56
  73. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres44
  74. Mary Shelley27
  75. Auguste Comte26
  76. Ada Lovelace9
  77. Giuseppe Garibaldi17
  78. Robert Schumann14
  79. Emily Brontë6
  80. Herman Melville5
  81. Adam Mickiewicz26
  82. Napoleon III16
  83. Mikhail Lermontov10
  84. Pierre-Simon Laplace75
  85. Franz Liszt13
  86. Theodor Mommsen7
  87. Felix Mendelssohn15
  88. Samuel Taylor Coleridge52
  89. Eugène Delacroix26
  90. André-Marie Ampère49
  91. Herbert Spencer4
  92. Thomas Carlyle29
  93. Alfred Tennyson15
  94. Harriet Beecher Stowe13
  95. Alessandro Volta79
  96. Nathaniel Hawthorne20
  97. John Ruskin5
  98. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow17
  99. Alexis de Tocqueville19
  100. Leo XIII14
  101. Charles Babbage33
  102. John Dalton58
  103. Giacomo Leopardi26
  104. Alexander I of Russia47
  105. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck80
  106. Ludwig Feuerbach20
  107. Washington Irving41
  108. Alphonse de Lamartine34
  109. Pius IX32
  110. Carl von Clausewitz44
  111. Alessandro Manzoni39
  112. Gioachino Rossini32
  113. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon15
  114. Joseph Smith19
  115. Alfred Russel Wallace1
  116. Alexandre Dumas filsborn
  117. Jeremy Bentham76
  118. Thomas Robert Malthus58
  119. Nicholas I of Russia28
  120. Harriet Tubman0–7

The 120 best known of 168 are listed.