Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1858?

220 of the people we track were surely alive in 1858. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1858: Theodore Roosevelt, Max Planck, Selma Lagerlöf, Giacomo Puccini, Émile Durkheim and Rudolf Diesel.

  1. Karl Marx40
  2. Abraham Lincoln49
  3. Leo Tolstoy30
  4. Charles Darwin49
  5. Victor Hugo56
  6. Vincent van Gogh5
  7. Fyodor Dostoyevsky37
  8. Friedrich Nietzsche14
  9. Thomas Edison11
  10. Mark Twain23
  11. Sigmund Freud2
  12. Charles Dickens46
  13. Hans Christian Andersen53
  14. Oscar Wilde4
  15. Otto von Bismarck43
  16. Nikola Tesla2
  17. Louis Pasteur36
  18. Richard Wagner45
  19. Friedrich Engels38
  20. Sarah Bernhardt14
  21. Alfred Nobel25
  22. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky18
  23. Theodore Rooseveltborn
  24. Jules Verne30
  25. Woodrow Wilson2
  26. George Bernard Shaw2
  27. Max Planckborn
  28. Michael Faraday67
  29. Giuseppe Verdi45
  30. Charles Baudelaire37
  31. Dmitri Mendeleev24
  32. Arthur Schopenhauer70
  33. Victoria39
  34. Alexandre Dumas56
  35. Henrik Ibsen30
  36. Émile Zola18
  37. James Clerk Maxwell27
  38. Johannes Brahms25
  39. Anatole France14
  40. Alexander Graham Bell11
  41. Octave Mirbeau10
  42. Gustave Flaubert37
  43. Ulysses S. Grant36
  44. Lewis Carroll26
  45. Wilhelm Röntgen13
  46. Ralph Waldo Emerson55
  47. Claude Monet18
  48. Guy de Maupassant8
  49. Selma Lagerlöfborn
  50. Robert Louis Stevenson8
  51. Ivan Turgenev40
  52. John Stuart Mill52
  53. Florence Nightingale38
  54. Antonín Dvořák17
  55. Walt Whitman39
  56. James A. Garfield27
  57. Emily Dickinson28
  58. William Howard Taft1
  59. Giacomo Pucciniborn
  60. Martin Van Buren76
  61. Grover Cleveland21
  62. Andrew Johnson50
  63. Henry David Thoreau41
  64. James Buchanan67
  65. Arthur Rimbaud4
  66. John Tyler68
  67. Mikhail Bakunin44
  68. William McKinley15
  69. Alexander von Humboldt89
  70. Millard Fillmore58
  71. Franklin Pierce54
  72. Rutherford B. Hayes36
  73. Paul Cézanne19
  74. Henryk Sienkiewicz12
  75. Benjamin Disraeli54
  76. Taras Shevchenko44
  77. George Eliot39
  78. George Sand54
  79. Benjamin Harrison25
  80. Hector Berlioz55
  81. James Prescott Joule40
  82. Gregor Mendel36
  83. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres78
  84. Paul Gauguin10
  85. Chester A. Arthur29
  86. Giuseppe Garibaldi51
  87. Herman Melville39
  88. Auguste Rodin18
  89. Antoni Gaudí6
  90. Henri Poincaré4
  91. Joseph Conrad1
  92. Napoleon III50
  93. Franz Liszt47
  94. Theodor Mommsen41
  95. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson26
  96. Robert Koch15
  97. Émile Durkheimborn
  98. Frédéric Mistral28
  99. William James16
  100. Ivan Pavlov9
  101. Giosuè Carducci23
  102. Sully Prudhomme19
  103. Eugène Delacroix60
  104. Pius XI1
  105. Herbert Spencer38
  106. Joseph John Thomson2
  107. Thomas Carlyle63
  108. Thomas Hardy18
  109. Peter Kropotkin16
  110. Alfred Tennyson49
  111. Harriet Beecher Stowe47
  112. Pius X23
  113. Paul Verlaine14
  114. August Strindberg9
  115. Nathaniel Hawthorne54
  116. John Ruskin39
  117. Hendrik Lorentz5
  118. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow51
  119. Alexis de Tocqueville53
  120. Leo XIII48

The 120 best known of 220 are listed.