Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1854?

211 of the people we track were surely alive in 1854. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1854: Oscar Wilde, Arthur Rimbaud, Henri Poincaré and Benedict XV.

Died in 1854: Georg Simon Ohm and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling.

  1. Karl Marx36
  2. Abraham Lincoln45
  3. Leo Tolstoy26
  4. Charles Darwin45
  5. Victor Hugo52
  6. Vincent van Gogh1
  7. Fyodor Dostoyevsky33
  8. Friedrich Nietzsche10
  9. Thomas Edison7
  10. Mark Twain19
  11. Charles Dickens42
  12. Hans Christian Andersen49
  13. Oscar Wildeborn
  14. Otto von Bismarck39
  15. Louis Pasteur32
  16. Richard Wagner41
  17. Carl Friedrich Gauss77
  18. Friedrich Engels34
  19. Sarah Bernhardt10
  20. Alfred Nobel21
  21. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky14
  22. Jules Verne26
  23. Michael Faraday63
  24. Giuseppe Verdi41
  25. Charles Baudelaire33
  26. Dmitri Mendeleev20
  27. Arthur Schopenhauer66
  28. Victoria35
  29. Alexandre Dumas52
  30. Søren Kierkegaard41
  31. Henrik Ibsen26
  32. Heinrich Heine57
  33. Émile Zola14
  34. James Clerk Maxwell23
  35. Johannes Brahms21
  36. Anatole France10
  37. Alexander Graham Bell7
  38. Octave Mirbeau6
  39. Gustave Flaubert33
  40. Ulysses S. Grant32
  41. Lewis Carroll22
  42. Wilhelm Röntgen9
  43. Ralph Waldo Emerson51
  44. Claude Monet14
  45. Guy de Maupassant4
  46. Robert Louis Stevenson4
  47. Ivan Turgenev36
  48. John Stuart Mill48
  49. Florence Nightingale34
  50. Antonín Dvořák13
  51. Walt Whitman35
  52. James A. Garfield23
  53. Emily Dickinson24
  54. Martin Van Buren72
  55. Grover Cleveland17
  56. Andrew Johnson46
  57. Henry David Thoreau37
  58. James Buchanan63
  59. Arthur Rimbaudborn
  60. John Tyler64
  61. Mikhail Bakunin40
  62. William McKinley11
  63. Alexander von Humboldt85
  64. Millard Fillmore54
  65. Franklin Pierce50
  66. Rutherford B. Hayes32
  67. Paul Cézanne15
  68. Henryk Sienkiewicz8
  69. Benjamin Disraeli50
  70. Taras Shevchenko40
  71. George Eliot35
  72. George Sand50
  73. Benjamin Harrison21
  74. Hector Berlioz51
  75. Charlotte Brontë38
  76. James Prescott Joule36
  77. Gregor Mendel32
  78. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres74
  79. Auguste Comte56
  80. Paul Gauguin6
  81. Chester A. Arthur25
  82. Giuseppe Garibaldi47
  83. Robert Schumann44
  84. Herman Melville35
  85. Auguste Rodin14
  86. Antoni Gaudí2
  87. Henri Poincaréborn
  88. Adam Mickiewicz56
  89. Napoleon III46
  90. Franz Liszt43
  91. Theodor Mommsen37
  92. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson22
  93. Robert Koch11
  94. Frédéric Mistral24
  95. William James12
  96. Ivan Pavlov5
  97. Giosuè Carducci19
  98. Sully Prudhomme15
  99. Eugène Delacroix56
  100. Herbert Spencer34
  101. Thomas Carlyle59
  102. Thomas Hardy14
  103. Peter Kropotkin12
  104. Alfred Tennyson45
  105. Harriet Beecher Stowe43
  106. Pius X19
  107. Paul Verlaine10
  108. August Strindberg5
  109. Nathaniel Hawthorne50
  110. John Ruskin35
  111. Hendrik Lorentz1
  112. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow47
  113. Alexis de Tocqueville49
  114. Leo XIII44
  115. Pierre-Auguste Renoir13
  116. Georg Cantor9
  117. Charles Babbage63
  118. Edgar Degas20
  119. Andrew Carnegie19
  120. Ramakrishna18

The 120 best known of 211 are listed.