Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1843?

189 of the people we track were surely alive in 1843. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1843: William McKinley, Robert Koch, Edvard Grieg, Bertha von Suttner and Henry James.

Died in 1843: Friedrich Hölderlin.

  1. Karl Marx25
  2. Abraham Lincoln34
  3. Leo Tolstoy15
  4. Charles Darwin34
  5. Victor Hugo41
  6. Fyodor Dostoyevsky22
  7. Mark Twain8
  8. Charles Dickens31
  9. Hans Christian Andersen38
  10. Edgar Allan Poe34
  11. Otto von Bismarck28
  12. Louis Pasteur21
  13. Richard Wagner30
  14. Carl Friedrich Gauss66
  15. Frédéric Chopin33
  16. Friedrich Engels23
  17. Alfred Nobel10
  18. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky3
  19. Jules Verne15
  20. Michael Faraday52
  21. Giuseppe Verdi30
  22. Charles Baudelaire22
  23. Dmitri Mendeleev9
  24. Katsushika Hokusai83
  25. Honoré de Balzac44
  26. Arthur Schopenhauer55
  27. Victoria24
  28. Alexandre Dumas41
  29. Søren Kierkegaard30
  30. Henrik Ibsen15
  31. Heinrich Heine46
  32. John Quincy Adams76
  33. Émile Zola3
  34. Andrew Jackson76
  35. James Clerk Maxwell12
  36. Johannes Brahms10
  37. Gustave Flaubert22
  38. Ulysses S. Grant21
  39. Nikolai Gogol34
  40. Lewis Carroll11
  41. Ralph Waldo Emerson40
  42. Claude Monet3
  43. Ivan Turgenev25
  44. John Stuart Mill37
  45. Florence Nightingale23
  46. Antonín Dvořák2
  47. Walt Whitman24
  48. James A. Garfield12
  49. Emily Dickinson13
  50. Martin Van Buren61
  51. Grover Cleveland6
  52. Andrew Johnson35
  53. Henry David Thoreau26
  54. Zachary Taylor59
  55. James Buchanan52
  56. James K. Polk48
  57. John Tyler53
  58. Mikhail Bakunin29
  59. William McKinleyborn
  60. Alexander von Humboldt74
  61. William Wordsworth73
  62. Millard Fillmore43
  63. Franklin Pierce39
  64. Rutherford B. Hayes21
  65. Paul Cézanne4
  66. Benjamin Disraeli39
  67. Taras Shevchenko29
  68. George Eliot24
  69. George Sand39
  70. Benjamin Harrison10
  71. Hector Berlioz40
  72. Charlotte Brontë27
  73. James Prescott Joule25
  74. Gregor Mendel21
  75. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres63
  76. Mary Shelley46
  77. Auguste Comte45
  78. Ada Lovelace28
  79. Chester A. Arthur14
  80. Giuseppe Garibaldi36
  81. Robert Schumann33
  82. Emily Brontë25
  83. Herman Melville24
  84. Auguste Rodin3
  85. Adam Mickiewicz45
  86. Napoleon III35
  87. Franz Liszt32
  88. Theodor Mommsen26
  89. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson11
  90. Robert Kochborn
  91. Felix Mendelssohn34
  92. Frédéric Mistral13
  93. William James1
  94. Giosuè Carducci8
  95. Sully Prudhomme4
  96. Eugène Delacroix45
  97. Herbert Spencer23
  98. Thomas Carlyle48
  99. Thomas Hardy3
  100. Peter Kropotkin1
  101. Alfred Tennyson34
  102. Harriet Beecher Stowe32
  103. Pius X8
  104. Nathaniel Hawthorne39
  105. John Ruskin24
  106. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow36
  107. Alexis de Tocqueville38
  108. Leo XIII33
  109. Pierre-Auguste Renoir2
  110. Charles Babbage52
  111. Edgar Degas9
  112. John Dalton77
  113. Andrew Carnegie8
  114. Ramakrishna7
  115. Édouard Manet11
  116. Louisa May Alcott11
  117. Bernhard Riemann17
  118. Edvard Griegborn
  119. Ludwig Feuerbach39
  120. Thomas Henry Huxley18

The 120 best known of 189 are listed.