Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1848?

204 of the people we track were surely alive in 1848. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1848: Octave Mirbeau, Paul Gauguin, Gottlob Frege and Arthur Balfour.

Died in 1848: John Quincy Adams, Emily Brontë and François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand.

  1. Karl Marx30
  2. Abraham Lincoln39
  3. Leo Tolstoy20
  4. Charles Darwin39
  5. Victor Hugo46
  6. Fyodor Dostoyevsky27
  7. Friedrich Nietzsche4
  8. Thomas Edison1
  9. Mark Twain13
  10. Charles Dickens36
  11. Hans Christian Andersen43
  12. Edgar Allan Poe39
  13. Otto von Bismarck33
  14. Louis Pasteur26
  15. Richard Wagner35
  16. Carl Friedrich Gauss71
  17. Frédéric Chopin38
  18. Friedrich Engels28
  19. Sarah Bernhardt4
  20. Alfred Nobel15
  21. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky8
  22. Jules Verne20
  23. Michael Faraday57
  24. Giuseppe Verdi35
  25. Charles Baudelaire27
  26. Dmitri Mendeleev14
  27. Katsushika Hokusai88
  28. Honoré de Balzac49
  29. Arthur Schopenhauer60
  30. Victoria29
  31. Alexandre Dumas46
  32. Søren Kierkegaard35
  33. Henrik Ibsen20
  34. Heinrich Heine51
  35. John Quincy Adams80 †
  36. Émile Zola8
  37. James Clerk Maxwell17
  38. Johannes Brahms15
  39. Anatole France4
  40. Alexander Graham Bell1
  41. Octave Mirbeauborn
  42. Gustave Flaubert27
  43. Ulysses S. Grant26
  44. Nikolai Gogol39
  45. Lewis Carroll16
  46. Wilhelm Röntgen3
  47. Ralph Waldo Emerson45
  48. Claude Monet8
  49. Ivan Turgenev30
  50. John Stuart Mill42
  51. Florence Nightingale28
  52. Antonín Dvořák7
  53. Walt Whitman29
  54. James A. Garfield17
  55. Emily Dickinson18
  56. Martin Van Buren66
  57. Grover Cleveland11
  58. Andrew Johnson40
  59. Henry David Thoreau31
  60. Zachary Taylor64
  61. James Buchanan57
  62. James K. Polk53
  63. John Tyler58
  64. Mikhail Bakunin34
  65. William McKinley5
  66. Alexander von Humboldt79
  67. William Wordsworth78
  68. Millard Fillmore48
  69. Franklin Pierce44
  70. Rutherford B. Hayes26
  71. Paul Cézanne9
  72. Henryk Sienkiewicz2
  73. Benjamin Disraeli44
  74. Taras Shevchenko34
  75. George Eliot29
  76. George Sand44
  77. Benjamin Harrison15
  78. Hector Berlioz45
  79. Charlotte Brontë32
  80. James Prescott Joule30
  81. Gregor Mendel26
  82. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres68
  83. Mary Shelley51
  84. Auguste Comte50
  85. Ada Lovelace33
  86. Paul Gauguinborn
  87. Chester A. Arthur19
  88. Giuseppe Garibaldi41
  89. Robert Schumann38
  90. Emily Brontë30 †
  91. Herman Melville29
  92. Auguste Rodin8
  93. Adam Mickiewicz50
  94. Napoleon III40
  95. Franz Liszt37
  96. Theodor Mommsen31
  97. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson16
  98. Robert Koch5
  99. Frédéric Mistral18
  100. William James6
  101. Giosuè Carducci13
  102. Sully Prudhomme9
  103. Eugène Delacroix50
  104. Herbert Spencer28
  105. Thomas Carlyle53
  106. Thomas Hardy8
  107. Peter Kropotkin6
  108. Alfred Tennyson39
  109. Harriet Beecher Stowe37
  110. Pius X13
  111. Paul Verlaine4
  112. Nathaniel Hawthorne44
  113. John Ruskin29
  114. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow41
  115. Alexis de Tocqueville43
  116. Leo XIII38
  117. Pierre-Auguste Renoir7
  118. Georg Cantor3
  119. Charles Babbage57
  120. Edgar Degas14

The 120 best known of 204 are listed.