Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1847?

202 of the people we track were surely alive in 1847. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1847: Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Paul von Hindenburg and Bram Stoker.

Died in 1847: Felix Mendelssohn.

  1. Karl Marx29
  2. Abraham Lincoln38
  3. Leo Tolstoy19
  4. Charles Darwin38
  5. Victor Hugo45
  6. Fyodor Dostoyevsky26
  7. Friedrich Nietzsche3
  8. Thomas Edisonborn
  9. Mark Twain12
  10. Charles Dickens35
  11. Hans Christian Andersen42
  12. Edgar Allan Poe38
  13. Otto von Bismarck32
  14. Louis Pasteur25
  15. Richard Wagner34
  16. Carl Friedrich Gauss70
  17. Frédéric Chopin37
  18. Friedrich Engels27
  19. Sarah Bernhardt3
  20. Alfred Nobel14
  21. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky7
  22. Jules Verne19
  23. Michael Faraday56
  24. Giuseppe Verdi34
  25. Charles Baudelaire26
  26. Dmitri Mendeleev13
  27. Katsushika Hokusai87
  28. Honoré de Balzac48
  29. Arthur Schopenhauer59
  30. Victoria28
  31. Alexandre Dumas45
  32. Søren Kierkegaard34
  33. Henrik Ibsen19
  34. Heinrich Heine50
  35. John Quincy Adams80
  36. Émile Zola7
  37. James Clerk Maxwell16
  38. Johannes Brahms14
  39. Anatole France3
  40. Alexander Graham Bellborn
  41. Gustave Flaubert26
  42. Ulysses S. Grant25
  43. Nikolai Gogol38
  44. Lewis Carroll15
  45. Wilhelm Röntgen2
  46. Ralph Waldo Emerson44
  47. Claude Monet7
  48. Ivan Turgenev29
  49. John Stuart Mill41
  50. Florence Nightingale27
  51. Antonín Dvořák6
  52. Walt Whitman28
  53. James A. Garfield16
  54. Emily Dickinson17
  55. Martin Van Buren65
  56. Grover Cleveland10
  57. Andrew Johnson39
  58. Henry David Thoreau30
  59. Zachary Taylor63
  60. James Buchanan56
  61. James K. Polk52
  62. John Tyler57
  63. Mikhail Bakunin33
  64. William McKinley4
  65. Alexander von Humboldt78
  66. William Wordsworth77
  67. Millard Fillmore47
  68. Franklin Pierce43
  69. Rutherford B. Hayes25
  70. Paul Cézanne8
  71. Henryk Sienkiewicz1
  72. Benjamin Disraeli43
  73. Taras Shevchenko33
  74. George Eliot28
  75. George Sand43
  76. Benjamin Harrison14
  77. Hector Berlioz44
  78. Charlotte Brontë31
  79. James Prescott Joule29
  80. Gregor Mendel25
  81. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres67
  82. Mary Shelley50
  83. Auguste Comte49
  84. Ada Lovelace32
  85. Chester A. Arthur18
  86. Giuseppe Garibaldi40
  87. Robert Schumann37
  88. Emily Brontë29
  89. Herman Melville28
  90. Auguste Rodin7
  91. Adam Mickiewicz49
  92. Napoleon III39
  93. Franz Liszt36
  94. Theodor Mommsen30
  95. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson15
  96. Robert Koch4
  97. Felix Mendelssohn38 †
  98. Frédéric Mistral17
  99. William James5
  100. Giosuè Carducci12
  101. Sully Prudhomme8
  102. Eugène Delacroix49
  103. Herbert Spencer27
  104. Thomas Carlyle52
  105. Thomas Hardy7
  106. Peter Kropotkin5
  107. Alfred Tennyson38
  108. Harriet Beecher Stowe36
  109. Pius X12
  110. Paul Verlaine3
  111. Nathaniel Hawthorne43
  112. John Ruskin28
  113. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow40
  114. Alexis de Tocqueville42
  115. Leo XIII37
  116. Pierre-Auguste Renoir6
  117. Georg Cantor2
  118. Charles Babbage56
  119. Edgar Degas13
  120. Andrew Carnegie12

The 120 best known of 202 are listed.