Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1840?

180 of the people we track were surely alive in 1840. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1840: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Émile Zola, Claude Monet, Auguste Rodin, Thomas Hardy and Alphonse Daudet.

Died in 1840: Niccolò Paganini and Caspar David Friedrich.

  1. Karl Marx22
  2. Abraham Lincoln31
  3. Leo Tolstoy12
  4. Charles Darwin31
  5. Victor Hugo38
  6. Fyodor Dostoyevsky19
  7. Mark Twain5
  8. Charles Dickens28
  9. Hans Christian Andersen35
  10. Edgar Allan Poe31
  11. Otto von Bismarck25
  12. Louis Pasteur18
  13. Richard Wagner27
  14. Carl Friedrich Gauss63
  15. Frédéric Chopin30
  16. Friedrich Engels20
  17. Alfred Nobel7
  18. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovskyborn
  19. Jules Verne12
  20. Michael Faraday49
  21. Giuseppe Verdi27
  22. Charles Baudelaire19
  23. Dmitri Mendeleev6
  24. Katsushika Hokusai80
  25. Honoré de Balzac41
  26. Arthur Schopenhauer52
  27. Victoria21
  28. Alexandre Dumas38
  29. Søren Kierkegaard27
  30. Henrik Ibsen12
  31. Heinrich Heine43
  32. John Quincy Adams73
  33. Émile Zolaborn
  34. Andrew Jackson73
  35. James Clerk Maxwell9
  36. Johannes Brahms7
  37. Gustave Flaubert19
  38. Ulysses S. Grant18
  39. Nikolai Gogol31
  40. Lewis Carroll8
  41. Ralph Waldo Emerson37
  42. Claude Monetborn
  43. Ivan Turgenev22
  44. John Stuart Mill34
  45. Florence Nightingale20
  46. Walt Whitman21
  47. James A. Garfield9
  48. Emily Dickinson10
  49. Martin Van Buren58
  50. Grover Cleveland3
  51. Andrew Johnson32
  52. Henry David Thoreau23
  53. Zachary Taylor56
  54. James Buchanan49
  55. James K. Polk45
  56. John Tyler50
  57. Mikhail Bakunin26
  58. Alexander von Humboldt71
  59. William Wordsworth70
  60. Millard Fillmore40
  61. William Henry Harrison67
  62. Franklin Pierce36
  63. Rutherford B. Hayes18
  64. Paul Cézanne1
  65. Benjamin Disraeli36
  66. Taras Shevchenko26
  67. George Eliot21
  68. Stendhal57
  69. George Sand36
  70. Benjamin Harrison7
  71. Hector Berlioz37
  72. Charlotte Brontë24
  73. James Prescott Joule22
  74. Gregor Mendel18
  75. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres60
  76. Mary Shelley43
  77. Auguste Comte42
  78. Ada Lovelace25
  79. Chester A. Arthur11
  80. Giuseppe Garibaldi33
  81. Robert Schumann30
  82. Emily Brontë22
  83. Herman Melville21
  84. Auguste Rodinborn
  85. Adam Mickiewicz42
  86. Napoleon III32
  87. Mikhail Lermontov26
  88. Franz Liszt29
  89. Theodor Mommsen23
  90. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson8
  91. Felix Mendelssohn31
  92. Frédéric Mistral10
  93. Giosuè Carducci5
  94. Sully Prudhomme1
  95. Eugène Delacroix42
  96. Herbert Spencer20
  97. Thomas Carlyle45
  98. Thomas Hardyborn
  99. Alfred Tennyson31
  100. Harriet Beecher Stowe29
  101. Pius X5
  102. Nathaniel Hawthorne36
  103. John Ruskin21
  104. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow33
  105. Alexis de Tocqueville35
  106. Leo XIII30
  107. Charles Babbage49
  108. Edgar Degas6
  109. John Dalton74
  110. Andrew Carnegie5
  111. Ramakrishna4
  112. Édouard Manet8
  113. Louisa May Alcott8
  114. Bernhard Riemann14
  115. Ludwig Feuerbach36
  116. Thomas Henry Huxley15
  117. Washington Irving57
  118. Alphonse de Lamartine50
  119. Pius IX48
  120. Alessandro Manzoni55

The 120 best known of 180 are listed.