Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1838?

172 of the people we track were surely alive in 1838. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1838: Georges Bizet and Ernst Mach.

  1. Karl Marx20
  2. Abraham Lincoln29
  3. Leo Tolstoy10
  4. Charles Darwin29
  5. Victor Hugo36
  6. Fyodor Dostoyevsky17
  7. Mark Twain3
  8. Charles Dickens26
  9. Hans Christian Andersen33
  10. Edgar Allan Poe29
  11. Otto von Bismarck23
  12. Louis Pasteur16
  13. Richard Wagner25
  14. Carl Friedrich Gauss61
  15. Frédéric Chopin28
  16. Friedrich Engels18
  17. Alfred Nobel5
  18. Jules Verne10
  19. Michael Faraday47
  20. Giuseppe Verdi25
  21. Charles Baudelaire17
  22. Dmitri Mendeleev4
  23. Katsushika Hokusai78
  24. Honoré de Balzac39
  25. Arthur Schopenhauer50
  26. Victoria19
  27. Alexandre Dumas36
  28. Søren Kierkegaard25
  29. Henrik Ibsen10
  30. Heinrich Heine41
  31. John Quincy Adams71
  32. Andrew Jackson71
  33. James Clerk Maxwell7
  34. Johannes Brahms5
  35. Gustave Flaubert17
  36. Ulysses S. Grant16
  37. Nikolai Gogol29
  38. Lewis Carroll6
  39. Ralph Waldo Emerson35
  40. Ivan Turgenev20
  41. John Stuart Mill32
  42. Florence Nightingale18
  43. Walt Whitman19
  44. James A. Garfield7
  45. Emily Dickinson8
  46. Martin Van Buren56
  47. Grover Cleveland1
  48. Andrew Johnson30
  49. Henry David Thoreau21
  50. Zachary Taylor54
  51. James Buchanan47
  52. James K. Polk43
  53. John Tyler48
  54. Mikhail Bakunin24
  55. Alexander von Humboldt69
  56. William Wordsworth68
  57. Millard Fillmore38
  58. William Henry Harrison65
  59. Franklin Pierce34
  60. Rutherford B. Hayes16
  61. Benjamin Disraeli34
  62. Taras Shevchenko24
  63. George Eliot19
  64. Stendhal55
  65. George Sand34
  66. Benjamin Harrison5
  67. Hector Berlioz35
  68. Charlotte Brontë22
  69. James Prescott Joule20
  70. Gregor Mendel16
  71. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres58
  72. Mary Shelley41
  73. Auguste Comte40
  74. Ada Lovelace23
  75. Chester A. Arthur9
  76. Giuseppe Garibaldi31
  77. Robert Schumann28
  78. Emily Brontë20
  79. Herman Melville19
  80. Adam Mickiewicz40
  81. Napoleon III30
  82. Mikhail Lermontov24
  83. Franz Liszt27
  84. Theodor Mommsen21
  85. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson6
  86. Felix Mendelssohn29
  87. Frédéric Mistral8
  88. Giosuè Carducci3
  89. Eugène Delacroix40
  90. Herbert Spencer18
  91. Thomas Carlyle43
  92. Alfred Tennyson29
  93. Harriet Beecher Stowe27
  94. Pius X3
  95. Nathaniel Hawthorne34
  96. John Ruskin19
  97. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow31
  98. Alexis de Tocqueville33
  99. Leo XIII28
  100. Charles Babbage47
  101. Edgar Degas4
  102. John Dalton72
  103. Andrew Carnegie3
  104. Ramakrishna2
  105. Édouard Manet6
  106. Louisa May Alcott6
  107. Bernhard Riemann12
  108. Ludwig Feuerbach34
  109. Thomas Henry Huxley13
  110. Washington Irving55
  111. Alphonse de Lamartine48
  112. Pius IX46
  113. Alessandro Manzoni53
  114. Gioachino Rossini46
  115. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon29
  116. Joseph Smith33
  117. Alfred Russel Wallace15
  118. Alexandre Dumas fils14
  119. Henry Dunant10
  120. Nicholas I of Russia42

The 120 best known of 172 are listed.