Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1827?

166 of the people we track were surely alive in 1827. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Died in 1827: Ludwig van Beethoven, William Blake, Pierre-Simon Laplace and Alessandro Volta.

  1. Karl Marx9
  2. Abraham Lincoln18
  3. Charles Darwin18
  4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe78
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven†
  6. Victor Hugo25
  7. Fyodor Dostoyevsky6
  8. Charles Dickens15
  9. Alexander Pushkin28
  10. Hans Christian Andersen22
  11. Edgar Allan Poe18
  12. Otto von Bismarck12
  13. Louis Pasteur5
  14. Richard Wagner14
  15. Carl Friedrich Gauss50
  16. Frédéric Chopin17
  17. Friedrich Engels7
  18. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel57
  19. Francisco Goya81
  20. Michael Faraday36
  21. Giuseppe Verdi14
  22. Charles Baudelaire6
  23. Katsushika Hokusai67
  24. James Madison76
  25. Honoré de Balzac28
  26. Simón Bolívar44
  27. Arthur Schopenhauer39
  28. Victoria8
  29. Alexandre Dumas25
  30. Franz Schubert30
  31. Søren Kierkegaard14
  32. Heinrich Heine30
  33. John Quincy Adams60
  34. Andrew Jackson60
  35. William Blake69 †
  36. Gustave Flaubert6
  37. Ulysses S. Grant5
  38. James Monroe69
  39. Nikolai Gogol18
  40. Ralph Waldo Emerson24
  41. Ivan Turgenev9
  42. John Stuart Mill21
  43. Florence Nightingale7
  44. Walt Whitman8
  45. Martin Van Buren45
  46. Andrew Johnson19
  47. Henry David Thoreau10
  48. Zachary Taylor43
  49. James Buchanan36
  50. James K. Polk32
  51. John Tyler37
  52. Mikhail Bakunin13
  53. Alexander von Humboldt58
  54. William Wordsworth57
  55. Millard Fillmore27
  56. William Henry Harrison54
  57. Walter Scott56
  58. Franklin Pierce23
  59. Rutherford B. Hayes5
  60. Benjamin Disraeli23
  61. Taras Shevchenko13
  62. George Eliot8
  63. Stendhal44
  64. George Sand23
  65. Hector Berlioz24
  66. Charlotte Brontë11
  67. James Prescott Joule9
  68. Gregor Mendel5
  69. Joseph Fourier59
  70. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres47
  71. Mary Shelley30
  72. Auguste Comte29
  73. Ada Lovelace12
  74. Giuseppe Garibaldi20
  75. Robert Schumann17
  76. Emily Brontë9
  77. Herman Melville8
  78. Adam Mickiewicz29
  79. Napoleon III19
  80. Mikhail Lermontov13
  81. Pierre-Simon Laplace77 †
  82. Franz Liszt16
  83. Theodor Mommsen10
  84. Felix Mendelssohn18
  85. Samuel Taylor Coleridge55
  86. Eugène Delacroix29
  87. André-Marie Ampère52
  88. Herbert Spencer7
  89. Thomas Carlyle32
  90. Alfred Tennyson18
  91. Harriet Beecher Stowe16
  92. Alessandro Volta82 †
  93. Nathaniel Hawthorne23
  94. John Ruskin8
  95. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow20
  96. Alexis de Tocqueville22
  97. Leo XIII17
  98. Charles Babbage36
  99. John Dalton61
  100. Giacomo Leopardi29
  101. Bernhard Riemann1
  102. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck83
  103. Ludwig Feuerbach23
  104. Thomas Henry Huxley2
  105. Washington Irving44
  106. Alphonse de Lamartine37
  107. Pius IX35
  108. Carl von Clausewitz47
  109. Alessandro Manzoni42
  110. Gioachino Rossini35
  111. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon18
  112. Joseph Smith22
  113. Alfred Russel Wallace4
  114. Alexandre Dumas fils3
  115. Jeremy Bentham79
  116. Thomas Robert Malthus61
  117. Nicholas I of Russia31
  118. Harriet Tubman3–10
  119. Alexander II of Russia9
  120. Anne Brontë7

The 120 best known of 166 are listed.