Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1831?

162 of the people we track were surely alive in 1831. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1831: James Clerk Maxwell and James A. Garfield.

Died in 1831: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, James Monroe and Carl von Clausewitz.

  1. Karl Marx13
  2. Abraham Lincoln22
  3. Leo Tolstoy3
  4. Charles Darwin22
  5. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe82
  6. Victor Hugo29
  7. Fyodor Dostoyevsky10
  8. Charles Dickens19
  9. Alexander Pushkin32
  10. Hans Christian Andersen26
  11. Edgar Allan Poe22
  12. Otto von Bismarck16
  13. Louis Pasteur9
  14. Richard Wagner18
  15. Carl Friedrich Gauss54
  16. Frédéric Chopin21
  17. Friedrich Engels11
  18. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel61 †
  19. Jules Verne3
  20. Michael Faraday40
  21. Giuseppe Verdi18
  22. Charles Baudelaire10
  23. Katsushika Hokusai71
  24. James Madison80
  25. Honoré de Balzac32
  26. Arthur Schopenhauer43
  27. Victoria12
  28. Alexandre Dumas29
  29. Søren Kierkegaard18
  30. Henrik Ibsen3
  31. Heinrich Heine34
  32. John Quincy Adams64
  33. Andrew Jackson64
  34. James Clerk Maxwellborn
  35. Gustave Flaubert10
  36. Ulysses S. Grant9
  37. James Monroe73 †
  38. Nikolai Gogol22
  39. Ralph Waldo Emerson28
  40. Ivan Turgenev13
  41. John Stuart Mill25
  42. Florence Nightingale11
  43. Walt Whitman12
  44. James A. Garfieldborn
  45. Emily Dickinson1
  46. Martin Van Buren49
  47. Andrew Johnson23
  48. Henry David Thoreau14
  49. Zachary Taylor47
  50. James Buchanan40
  51. James K. Polk36
  52. John Tyler41
  53. Mikhail Bakunin17
  54. Alexander von Humboldt62
  55. William Wordsworth61
  56. Millard Fillmore31
  57. William Henry Harrison58
  58. Walter Scott60
  59. Franklin Pierce27
  60. Rutherford B. Hayes9
  61. Benjamin Disraeli27
  62. Taras Shevchenko17
  63. George Eliot12
  64. Stendhal48
  65. George Sand27
  66. Hector Berlioz28
  67. Charlotte Brontë15
  68. James Prescott Joule13
  69. Gregor Mendel9
  70. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres51
  71. Mary Shelley34
  72. Auguste Comte33
  73. Ada Lovelace16
  74. Chester A. Arthur2
  75. Giuseppe Garibaldi24
  76. Robert Schumann21
  77. Emily Brontë13
  78. Herman Melville12
  79. Adam Mickiewicz33
  80. Napoleon III23
  81. Mikhail Lermontov17
  82. Franz Liszt20
  83. Theodor Mommsen14
  84. Felix Mendelssohn22
  85. Frédéric Mistral1
  86. Samuel Taylor Coleridge59
  87. Eugène Delacroix33
  88. André-Marie Ampère56
  89. Herbert Spencer11
  90. Thomas Carlyle36
  91. Alfred Tennyson22
  92. Harriet Beecher Stowe20
  93. Nathaniel Hawthorne27
  94. John Ruskin12
  95. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow24
  96. Alexis de Tocqueville26
  97. Leo XIII21
  98. Charles Babbage40
  99. John Dalton65
  100. Giacomo Leopardi33
  101. Bernhard Riemann5
  102. Ludwig Feuerbach27
  103. Thomas Henry Huxley6
  104. Washington Irving48
  105. Alphonse de Lamartine41
  106. Pius IX39
  107. Carl von Clausewitz51 †
  108. Alessandro Manzoni46
  109. Gioachino Rossini39
  110. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon22
  111. Joseph Smith26
  112. Alfred Russel Wallace8
  113. Alexandre Dumas fils7
  114. Henry Dunant3
  115. Jeremy Bentham83
  116. Thomas Robert Malthus65
  117. Nicholas I of Russia35
  118. Harriet Tubman7–14
  119. Alexander II of Russia13
  120. Anne Brontë11

The 120 best known of 162 are listed.