Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1861?

233 of the people we track were surely alive in 1861. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1861: Rabindranath Tagore, Fridtjof Nansen and Alfred North Whitehead.

Died in 1861: Taras Shevchenko and Camillo Benso di Cavour.

  1. Karl Marx43
  2. Abraham Lincoln52
  3. Leo Tolstoy33
  4. Charles Darwin52
  5. Victor Hugo59
  6. Vincent van Gogh8
  7. Fyodor Dostoyevsky40
  8. Friedrich Nietzsche17
  9. Thomas Edison14
  10. Mark Twain26
  11. Sigmund Freud5
  12. Charles Dickens49
  13. Rabindranath Tagoreborn
  14. Hans Christian Andersen56
  15. Anton Chekhov1
  16. Oscar Wilde7
  17. Otto von Bismarck46
  18. Nikola Tesla5
  19. Louis Pasteur39
  20. Richard Wagner48
  21. Friedrich Engels41
  22. Sarah Bernhardt17
  23. Alfred Nobel28
  24. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky21
  25. Theodore Roosevelt3
  26. Jules Verne33
  27. Woodrow Wilson5
  28. George Bernard Shaw5
  29. Max Planck3
  30. Arthur Conan Doyle2
  31. Michael Faraday70
  32. Giuseppe Verdi48
  33. Charles Baudelaire40
  34. Dmitri Mendeleev27
  35. Victoria42
  36. Alexandre Dumas59
  37. Henrik Ibsen33
  38. Émile Zola21
  39. James Clerk Maxwell30
  40. Johannes Brahms28
  41. Anatole France17
  42. Alexander Graham Bell14
  43. Octave Mirbeau13
  44. Gustave Flaubert40
  45. Ulysses S. Grant39
  46. Lewis Carroll29
  47. Wilhelm Röntgen16
  48. Ralph Waldo Emerson58
  49. Claude Monet21
  50. Guy de Maupassant11
  51. Selma Lagerlöf3
  52. Robert Louis Stevenson11
  53. Ivan Turgenev43
  54. John Stuart Mill55
  55. Florence Nightingale41
  56. Antonín Dvořák20
  57. Gustav Mahler1
  58. Walt Whitman42
  59. James A. Garfield30
  60. Emily Dickinson31
  61. William Howard Taft4
  62. Giacomo Puccini3
  63. Martin Van Buren79
  64. Grover Cleveland24
  65. Andrew Johnson53
  66. Henry David Thoreau44
  67. James Buchanan70
  68. Arthur Rimbaud7
  69. John Tyler71
  70. Mikhail Bakunin47
  71. William McKinley18
  72. Millard Fillmore61
  73. L. L. Zamenhof2
  74. Franklin Pierce57
  75. Rutherford B. Hayes39
  76. Paul Cézanne22
  77. Henryk Sienkiewicz15
  78. Benjamin Disraeli57
  79. Taras Shevchenko47 †
  80. George Eliot42
  81. Henri Bergson2
  82. George Sand57
  83. Benjamin Harrison28
  84. Hector Berlioz58
  85. James Prescott Joule43
  86. Knut Hamsun2
  87. Gregor Mendel39
  88. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres81
  89. Paul Gauguin13
  90. Chester A. Arthur32
  91. Giuseppe Garibaldi54
  92. Herman Melville42
  93. Auguste Rodin21
  94. Antoni Gaudí9
  95. Henri Poincaré7
  96. Pierre Curie2
  97. Wilhelm II2
  98. Joseph Conrad4
  99. Napoleon III53
  100. Franz Liszt50
  101. Theodor Mommsen44
  102. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson29
  103. Robert Koch18
  104. Émile Durkheim3
  105. Frédéric Mistral31
  106. William James19
  107. Ivan Pavlov12
  108. Giosuè Carducci26
  109. Sully Prudhomme22
  110. Eugène Delacroix63
  111. Pius XI4
  112. Herbert Spencer41
  113. Joseph John Thomson5
  114. Thomas Carlyle66
  115. Thomas Hardy21
  116. Peter Kropotkin19
  117. Alfred Tennyson52
  118. Harriet Beecher Stowe50
  119. Pius X26
  120. Paul Verlaine17

The 120 best known of 233 are listed.