Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1849?

203 of the people we track were surely alive in 1849. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1849: Ivan Pavlov and August Strindberg.

Died in 1849: Edgar Allan Poe, Frédéric Chopin, Katsushika Hokusai, James K. Polk and Anne Brontë.

  1. Karl Marx31
  2. Abraham Lincoln40
  3. Leo Tolstoy21
  4. Charles Darwin40
  5. Victor Hugo47
  6. Fyodor Dostoyevsky28
  7. Friedrich Nietzsche5
  8. Thomas Edison2
  9. Mark Twain14
  10. Charles Dickens37
  11. Hans Christian Andersen44
  12. Edgar Allan Poe40 †
  13. Otto von Bismarck34
  14. Louis Pasteur27
  15. Richard Wagner36
  16. Carl Friedrich Gauss72
  17. Frédéric Chopin39 †
  18. Friedrich Engels29
  19. Sarah Bernhardt5
  20. Alfred Nobel16
  21. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky9
  22. Jules Verne21
  23. Michael Faraday58
  24. Giuseppe Verdi36
  25. Charles Baudelaire28
  26. Dmitri Mendeleev15
  27. Katsushika Hokusai88 †
  28. Honoré de Balzac50
  29. Arthur Schopenhauer61
  30. Victoria30
  31. Alexandre Dumas47
  32. Søren Kierkegaard36
  33. Henrik Ibsen21
  34. Heinrich Heine52
  35. Émile Zola9
  36. James Clerk Maxwell18
  37. Johannes Brahms16
  38. Anatole France5
  39. Alexander Graham Bell2
  40. Octave Mirbeau1
  41. Gustave Flaubert28
  42. Ulysses S. Grant27
  43. Nikolai Gogol40
  44. Lewis Carroll17
  45. Wilhelm Röntgen4
  46. Ralph Waldo Emerson46
  47. Claude Monet9
  48. Ivan Turgenev31
  49. John Stuart Mill43
  50. Florence Nightingale29
  51. Antonín Dvořák8
  52. Walt Whitman30
  53. James A. Garfield18
  54. Emily Dickinson19
  55. Martin Van Buren67
  56. Grover Cleveland12
  57. Andrew Johnson41
  58. Henry David Thoreau32
  59. Zachary Taylor65
  60. James Buchanan58
  61. James K. Polk53 †
  62. John Tyler59
  63. Mikhail Bakunin35
  64. William McKinley6
  65. Alexander von Humboldt80
  66. William Wordsworth79
  67. Millard Fillmore49
  68. Franklin Pierce45
  69. Rutherford B. Hayes27
  70. Paul Cézanne10
  71. Henryk Sienkiewicz3
  72. Benjamin Disraeli45
  73. Taras Shevchenko35
  74. George Eliot30
  75. George Sand45
  76. Benjamin Harrison16
  77. Hector Berlioz46
  78. Charlotte Brontë33
  79. James Prescott Joule31
  80. Gregor Mendel27
  81. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres69
  82. Mary Shelley52
  83. Auguste Comte51
  84. Ada Lovelace34
  85. Paul Gauguin1
  86. Chester A. Arthur20
  87. Giuseppe Garibaldi42
  88. Robert Schumann39
  89. Herman Melville30
  90. Auguste Rodin9
  91. Adam Mickiewicz51
  92. Napoleon III41
  93. Franz Liszt38
  94. Theodor Mommsen32
  95. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson17
  96. Robert Koch6
  97. Frédéric Mistral19
  98. William James7
  99. Ivan Pavlovborn
  100. Giosuè Carducci14
  101. Sully Prudhomme10
  102. Eugène Delacroix51
  103. Herbert Spencer29
  104. Thomas Carlyle54
  105. Thomas Hardy9
  106. Peter Kropotkin7
  107. Alfred Tennyson40
  108. Harriet Beecher Stowe38
  109. Pius X14
  110. Paul Verlaine5
  111. August Strindbergborn
  112. Nathaniel Hawthorne45
  113. John Ruskin30
  114. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow42
  115. Alexis de Tocqueville44
  116. Leo XIII39
  117. Pierre-Auguste Renoir8
  118. Georg Cantor4
  119. Charles Babbage58
  120. Edgar Degas15

The 120 best known of 203 are listed.