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.
- Karl Marx36
- Abraham Lincoln45
- Leo Tolstoy26
- Charles Darwin45
- Victor Hugo52
- Vincent van Gogh1
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky33
- Friedrich Nietzsche10
- Thomas Edison7
- Mark Twain19
- Charles Dickens42
- Hans Christian Andersen49
- Oscar Wildeborn
- Otto von Bismarck39
- Louis Pasteur32
- Richard Wagner41
- Carl Friedrich Gauss77
- Friedrich Engels34
- Sarah Bernhardt10
- Alfred Nobel21
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky14
- Jules Verne26
- Michael Faraday63
- Giuseppe Verdi41
- Charles Baudelaire33
- Dmitri Mendeleev20
- Arthur Schopenhauer66
- Victoria35
- Alexandre Dumas52
- Søren Kierkegaard41
- Henrik Ibsen26
- Heinrich Heine57
- Émile Zola14
- James Clerk Maxwell23
- Johannes Brahms21
- Anatole France10
- Alexander Graham Bell7
- Octave Mirbeau6
- Gustave Flaubert33
- Ulysses S. Grant32
- Lewis Carroll22
- Wilhelm Röntgen9
- Ralph Waldo Emerson51
- Claude Monet14
- Guy de Maupassant4
- Robert Louis Stevenson4
- Ivan Turgenev36
- John Stuart Mill48
- Florence Nightingale34
- Antonín Dvořák13
- Walt Whitman35
- James A. Garfield23
- Emily Dickinson24
- Martin Van Buren72
- Grover Cleveland17
- Andrew Johnson46
- Henry David Thoreau37
- James Buchanan63
- Arthur Rimbaudborn
- John Tyler64
- Mikhail Bakunin40
- William McKinley11
- Alexander von Humboldt85
- Millard Fillmore54
- Franklin Pierce50
- Rutherford B. Hayes32
- Paul Cézanne15
- Henryk Sienkiewicz8
- Benjamin Disraeli50
- Taras Shevchenko40
- George Eliot35
- George Sand50
- Benjamin Harrison21
- Hector Berlioz51
- Charlotte Brontë38
- James Prescott Joule36
- Gregor Mendel32
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres74
- Auguste Comte56
- Paul Gauguin6
- Chester A. Arthur25
- Giuseppe Garibaldi47
- Robert Schumann44
- Herman Melville35
- Auguste Rodin14
- Antoni Gaudí2
- Henri Poincaréborn
- Adam Mickiewicz56
- Napoleon III46
- Franz Liszt43
- Theodor Mommsen37
- Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson22
- Robert Koch11
- Frédéric Mistral24
- William James12
- Ivan Pavlov5
- Giosuè Carducci19
- Sully Prudhomme15
- Eugène Delacroix56
- Herbert Spencer34
- Thomas Carlyle59
- Thomas Hardy14
- Peter Kropotkin12
- Alfred Tennyson45
- Harriet Beecher Stowe43
- Pius X19
- Paul Verlaine10
- August Strindberg5
- Nathaniel Hawthorne50
- John Ruskin35
- Hendrik Lorentz1
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow47
- Alexis de Tocqueville49
- Leo XIII44
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir13
- Georg Cantor9
- Charles Babbage63
- Edgar Degas20
- Andrew Carnegie19
- Ramakrishna18
The 120 best known of 211 are listed.