Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1832?

165 of the people we track were surely alive in 1832. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1832: Lewis Carroll, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Édouard Manet, Louisa May Alcott, Gustave Eiffel and Wilhelm Wundt.

Died in 1832: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Walter Scott, Jeremy Bentham and Évariste Galois.

  1. Karl Marx14
  2. Abraham Lincoln23
  3. Leo Tolstoy4
  4. Charles Darwin23
  5. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe82 †
  6. Victor Hugo30
  7. Fyodor Dostoyevsky11
  8. Charles Dickens20
  9. Alexander Pushkin33
  10. Hans Christian Andersen27
  11. Edgar Allan Poe23
  12. Otto von Bismarck17
  13. Louis Pasteur10
  14. Richard Wagner19
  15. Carl Friedrich Gauss55
  16. Frédéric Chopin22
  17. Friedrich Engels12
  18. Jules Verne4
  19. Michael Faraday41
  20. Giuseppe Verdi19
  21. Charles Baudelaire11
  22. Katsushika Hokusai72
  23. James Madison81
  24. Honoré de Balzac33
  25. Arthur Schopenhauer44
  26. Victoria13
  27. Alexandre Dumas30
  28. Søren Kierkegaard19
  29. Henrik Ibsen4
  30. Heinrich Heine35
  31. John Quincy Adams65
  32. Andrew Jackson65
  33. James Clerk Maxwell1
  34. Gustave Flaubert11
  35. Ulysses S. Grant10
  36. Nikolai Gogol23
  37. Lewis Carrollborn
  38. Ralph Waldo Emerson29
  39. Ivan Turgenev14
  40. John Stuart Mill26
  41. Florence Nightingale12
  42. Walt Whitman13
  43. James A. Garfield1
  44. Emily Dickinson2
  45. Martin Van Buren50
  46. Andrew Johnson24
  47. Henry David Thoreau15
  48. Zachary Taylor48
  49. James Buchanan41
  50. James K. Polk37
  51. John Tyler42
  52. Mikhail Bakunin18
  53. Alexander von Humboldt63
  54. William Wordsworth62
  55. Millard Fillmore32
  56. William Henry Harrison59
  57. Walter Scott61 †
  58. Franklin Pierce28
  59. Rutherford B. Hayes10
  60. Benjamin Disraeli28
  61. Taras Shevchenko18
  62. George Eliot13
  63. Stendhal49
  64. George Sand28
  65. Hector Berlioz29
  66. Charlotte Brontë16
  67. James Prescott Joule14
  68. Gregor Mendel10
  69. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres52
  70. Mary Shelley35
  71. Auguste Comte34
  72. Ada Lovelace17
  73. Chester A. Arthur3
  74. Giuseppe Garibaldi25
  75. Robert Schumann22
  76. Emily Brontë14
  77. Herman Melville13
  78. Adam Mickiewicz34
  79. Napoleon III24
  80. Mikhail Lermontov18
  81. Franz Liszt21
  82. Theodor Mommsen15
  83. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnsonborn
  84. Felix Mendelssohn23
  85. Frédéric Mistral2
  86. Samuel Taylor Coleridge60
  87. Eugène Delacroix34
  88. André-Marie Ampère57
  89. Herbert Spencer12
  90. Thomas Carlyle37
  91. Alfred Tennyson23
  92. Harriet Beecher Stowe21
  93. Nathaniel Hawthorne28
  94. John Ruskin13
  95. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow25
  96. Alexis de Tocqueville27
  97. Leo XIII22
  98. Charles Babbage41
  99. John Dalton66
  100. Giacomo Leopardi34
  101. Édouard Manetborn
  102. Louisa May Alcottborn
  103. Bernhard Riemann6
  104. Ludwig Feuerbach28
  105. Thomas Henry Huxley7
  106. Washington Irving49
  107. Alphonse de Lamartine42
  108. Pius IX40
  109. Alessandro Manzoni47
  110. Gioachino Rossini40
  111. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon23
  112. Joseph Smith27
  113. Alfred Russel Wallace9
  114. Alexandre Dumas fils8
  115. Henry Dunant4
  116. Jeremy Bentham84 †
  117. Thomas Robert Malthus66
  118. Nicholas I of Russia36
  119. Harriet Tubman8–15
  120. Alexander II of Russia14

The 120 best known of 165 are listed.