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.
- Karl Marx22
- Abraham Lincoln31
- Leo Tolstoy12
- Charles Darwin31
- Victor Hugo38
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky19
- Mark Twain5
- Charles Dickens28
- Hans Christian Andersen35
- Edgar Allan Poe31
- Otto von Bismarck25
- Louis Pasteur18
- Richard Wagner27
- Carl Friedrich Gauss63
- Frédéric Chopin30
- Friedrich Engels20
- Alfred Nobel7
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovskyborn
- Jules Verne12
- Michael Faraday49
- Giuseppe Verdi27
- Charles Baudelaire19
- Dmitri Mendeleev6
- Katsushika Hokusai80
- Honoré de Balzac41
- Arthur Schopenhauer52
- Victoria21
- Alexandre Dumas38
- Søren Kierkegaard27
- Henrik Ibsen12
- Heinrich Heine43
- John Quincy Adams73
- Émile Zolaborn
- Andrew Jackson73
- James Clerk Maxwell9
- Johannes Brahms7
- Gustave Flaubert19
- Ulysses S. Grant18
- Nikolai Gogol31
- Lewis Carroll8
- Ralph Waldo Emerson37
- Claude Monetborn
- Ivan Turgenev22
- John Stuart Mill34
- Florence Nightingale20
- Walt Whitman21
- James A. Garfield9
- Emily Dickinson10
- Martin Van Buren58
- Grover Cleveland3
- Andrew Johnson32
- Henry David Thoreau23
- Zachary Taylor56
- James Buchanan49
- James K. Polk45
- John Tyler50
- Mikhail Bakunin26
- Alexander von Humboldt71
- William Wordsworth70
- Millard Fillmore40
- William Henry Harrison67
- Franklin Pierce36
- Rutherford B. Hayes18
- Paul Cézanne1
- Benjamin Disraeli36
- Taras Shevchenko26
- George Eliot21
- Stendhal57
- George Sand36
- Benjamin Harrison7
- Hector Berlioz37
- Charlotte Brontë24
- James Prescott Joule22
- Gregor Mendel18
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres60
- Mary Shelley43
- Auguste Comte42
- Ada Lovelace25
- Chester A. Arthur11
- Giuseppe Garibaldi33
- Robert Schumann30
- Emily Brontë22
- Herman Melville21
- Auguste Rodinborn
- Adam Mickiewicz42
- Napoleon III32
- Mikhail Lermontov26
- Franz Liszt29
- Theodor Mommsen23
- Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson8
- Felix Mendelssohn31
- Frédéric Mistral10
- Giosuè Carducci5
- Sully Prudhomme1
- Eugène Delacroix42
- Herbert Spencer20
- Thomas Carlyle45
- Thomas Hardyborn
- Alfred Tennyson31
- Harriet Beecher Stowe29
- Pius X5
- Nathaniel Hawthorne36
- John Ruskin21
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow33
- Alexis de Tocqueville35
- Leo XIII30
- Charles Babbage49
- Edgar Degas6
- John Dalton74
- Andrew Carnegie5
- Ramakrishna4
- Édouard Manet8
- Louisa May Alcott8
- Bernhard Riemann14
- Ludwig Feuerbach36
- Thomas Henry Huxley15
- Washington Irving57
- Alphonse de Lamartine50
- Pius IX48
- Alessandro Manzoni55
The 120 best known of 180 are listed.