Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1851?

200 of the people we track were surely alive in 1851. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Died in 1851: Mary Shelley, Hans Christian Ørsted and James Fenimore Cooper.

  1. Karl Marx33
  2. Abraham Lincoln42
  3. Leo Tolstoy23
  4. Charles Darwin42
  5. Victor Hugo49
  6. Fyodor Dostoyevsky30
  7. Friedrich Nietzsche7
  8. Thomas Edison4
  9. Mark Twain16
  10. Charles Dickens39
  11. Hans Christian Andersen46
  12. Otto von Bismarck36
  13. Louis Pasteur29
  14. Richard Wagner38
  15. Carl Friedrich Gauss74
  16. Friedrich Engels31
  17. Sarah Bernhardt7
  18. Alfred Nobel18
  19. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky11
  20. Jules Verne23
  21. Michael Faraday60
  22. Giuseppe Verdi38
  23. Charles Baudelaire30
  24. Dmitri Mendeleev17
  25. Arthur Schopenhauer63
  26. Victoria32
  27. Alexandre Dumas49
  28. Søren Kierkegaard38
  29. Henrik Ibsen23
  30. Heinrich Heine54
  31. Émile Zola11
  32. James Clerk Maxwell20
  33. Johannes Brahms18
  34. Anatole France7
  35. Alexander Graham Bell4
  36. Octave Mirbeau3
  37. Gustave Flaubert30
  38. Ulysses S. Grant29
  39. Nikolai Gogol42
  40. Lewis Carroll19
  41. Wilhelm Röntgen6
  42. Ralph Waldo Emerson48
  43. Claude Monet11
  44. Guy de Maupassant1
  45. Robert Louis Stevenson1
  46. Ivan Turgenev33
  47. John Stuart Mill45
  48. Florence Nightingale31
  49. Antonín Dvořák10
  50. Walt Whitman32
  51. James A. Garfield20
  52. Emily Dickinson21
  53. Martin Van Buren69
  54. Grover Cleveland14
  55. Andrew Johnson43
  56. Henry David Thoreau34
  57. James Buchanan60
  58. John Tyler61
  59. Mikhail Bakunin37
  60. William McKinley8
  61. Alexander von Humboldt82
  62. Millard Fillmore51
  63. Franklin Pierce47
  64. Rutherford B. Hayes29
  65. Paul Cézanne12
  66. Henryk Sienkiewicz5
  67. Benjamin Disraeli47
  68. Taras Shevchenko37
  69. George Eliot32
  70. George Sand47
  71. Benjamin Harrison18
  72. Hector Berlioz48
  73. Charlotte Brontë35
  74. James Prescott Joule33
  75. Gregor Mendel29
  76. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres71
  77. Mary Shelley53 †
  78. Auguste Comte53
  79. Ada Lovelace36
  80. Paul Gauguin3
  81. Chester A. Arthur22
  82. Giuseppe Garibaldi44
  83. Robert Schumann41
  84. Herman Melville32
  85. Auguste Rodin11
  86. Adam Mickiewicz53
  87. Napoleon III43
  88. Franz Liszt40
  89. Theodor Mommsen34
  90. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson19
  91. Robert Koch8
  92. Frédéric Mistral21
  93. William James9
  94. Ivan Pavlov2
  95. Giosuè Carducci16
  96. Sully Prudhomme12
  97. Eugène Delacroix53
  98. Herbert Spencer31
  99. Thomas Carlyle56
  100. Thomas Hardy11
  101. Peter Kropotkin9
  102. Alfred Tennyson42
  103. Harriet Beecher Stowe40
  104. Pius X16
  105. Paul Verlaine7
  106. August Strindberg2
  107. Nathaniel Hawthorne47
  108. John Ruskin32
  109. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow44
  110. Alexis de Tocqueville46
  111. Leo XIII41
  112. Pierre-Auguste Renoir10
  113. Georg Cantor6
  114. Charles Babbage60
  115. Edgar Degas17
  116. Andrew Carnegie16
  117. Ramakrishna15
  118. Édouard Manet19
  119. Louisa May Alcott19
  120. Carl Benz7

The 120 best known of 200 are listed.