Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1833?

166 of the people we track were surely alive in 1833. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1833: Alfred Nobel, Johannes Brahms, Benjamin Harrison and Alexander Borodin.

  1. Karl Marx15
  2. Abraham Lincoln24
  3. Leo Tolstoy5
  4. Charles Darwin24
  5. Victor Hugo31
  6. Fyodor Dostoyevsky12
  7. Charles Dickens21
  8. Alexander Pushkin34
  9. Hans Christian Andersen28
  10. Edgar Allan Poe24
  11. Otto von Bismarck18
  12. Louis Pasteur11
  13. Richard Wagner20
  14. Carl Friedrich Gauss56
  15. Frédéric Chopin23
  16. Friedrich Engels13
  17. Alfred Nobelborn
  18. Jules Verne5
  19. Michael Faraday42
  20. Giuseppe Verdi20
  21. Charles Baudelaire12
  22. Katsushika Hokusai73
  23. James Madison82
  24. Honoré de Balzac34
  25. Arthur Schopenhauer45
  26. Victoria14
  27. Alexandre Dumas31
  28. Søren Kierkegaard20
  29. Henrik Ibsen5
  30. Heinrich Heine36
  31. John Quincy Adams66
  32. Andrew Jackson66
  33. James Clerk Maxwell2
  34. Johannes Brahmsborn
  35. Gustave Flaubert12
  36. Ulysses S. Grant11
  37. Nikolai Gogol24
  38. Lewis Carroll1
  39. Ralph Waldo Emerson30
  40. Ivan Turgenev15
  41. John Stuart Mill27
  42. Florence Nightingale13
  43. Walt Whitman14
  44. James A. Garfield2
  45. Emily Dickinson3
  46. Martin Van Buren51
  47. Andrew Johnson25
  48. Henry David Thoreau16
  49. Zachary Taylor49
  50. James Buchanan42
  51. James K. Polk38
  52. John Tyler43
  53. Mikhail Bakunin19
  54. Alexander von Humboldt64
  55. William Wordsworth63
  56. Millard Fillmore33
  57. William Henry Harrison60
  58. Franklin Pierce29
  59. Rutherford B. Hayes11
  60. Benjamin Disraeli29
  61. Taras Shevchenko19
  62. George Eliot14
  63. Stendhal50
  64. George Sand29
  65. Benjamin Harrisonborn
  66. Hector Berlioz30
  67. Charlotte Brontë17
  68. James Prescott Joule15
  69. Gregor Mendel11
  70. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres53
  71. Mary Shelley36
  72. Auguste Comte35
  73. Ada Lovelace18
  74. Chester A. Arthur4
  75. Giuseppe Garibaldi26
  76. Robert Schumann23
  77. Emily Brontë15
  78. Herman Melville14
  79. Adam Mickiewicz35
  80. Napoleon III25
  81. Mikhail Lermontov19
  82. Franz Liszt22
  83. Theodor Mommsen16
  84. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson1
  85. Felix Mendelssohn24
  86. Frédéric Mistral3
  87. Samuel Taylor Coleridge61
  88. Eugène Delacroix35
  89. André-Marie Ampère58
  90. Herbert Spencer13
  91. Thomas Carlyle38
  92. Alfred Tennyson24
  93. Harriet Beecher Stowe22
  94. Nathaniel Hawthorne29
  95. John Ruskin14
  96. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow26
  97. Alexis de Tocqueville28
  98. Leo XIII23
  99. Charles Babbage42
  100. John Dalton67
  101. Giacomo Leopardi35
  102. Édouard Manet1
  103. Louisa May Alcott1
  104. Bernhard Riemann7
  105. Ludwig Feuerbach29
  106. Thomas Henry Huxley8
  107. Washington Irving50
  108. Alphonse de Lamartine43
  109. Pius IX41
  110. Alessandro Manzoni48
  111. Gioachino Rossini41
  112. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon24
  113. Joseph Smith28
  114. Alfred Russel Wallace10
  115. Alexandre Dumas fils9
  116. Henry Dunant5
  117. Thomas Robert Malthus67
  118. Nicholas I of Russia37
  119. Harriet Tubman9–16
  120. Alexander II of Russia15

The 120 best known of 166 are listed.