Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1862?

239 of the people we track were surely alive in 1862. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1862: David Hilbert, Maurice Maeterlinck, Claude Debussy, Gerhart Hauptmann, Gustav Klimt, William Henry Bragg, Philipp Lenard and O. Henry.

Died in 1862: Martin Van Buren, Henry David Thoreau and John Tyler.

  1. Karl Marx44
  2. Abraham Lincoln53
  3. Leo Tolstoy34
  4. Charles Darwin53
  5. Victor Hugo60
  6. Vincent van Gogh9
  7. Fyodor Dostoyevsky41
  8. Friedrich Nietzsche18
  9. Thomas Edison15
  10. Mark Twain27
  11. Sigmund Freud6
  12. Charles Dickens50
  13. Rabindranath Tagore1
  14. Hans Christian Andersen57
  15. Anton Chekhov2
  16. Oscar Wilde8
  17. Otto von Bismarck47
  18. Nikola Tesla6
  19. Louis Pasteur40
  20. Richard Wagner49
  21. Friedrich Engels42
  22. Sarah Bernhardt18
  23. Alfred Nobel29
  24. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky22
  25. Theodore Roosevelt4
  26. Jules Verne34
  27. Woodrow Wilson6
  28. George Bernard Shaw6
  29. Max Planck4
  30. Arthur Conan Doyle3
  31. Michael Faraday71
  32. Giuseppe Verdi49
  33. Charles Baudelaire41
  34. Dmitri Mendeleev28
  35. Victoria43
  36. Alexandre Dumas60
  37. Henrik Ibsen34
  38. Émile Zola22
  39. David Hilbertborn
  40. James Clerk Maxwell31
  41. Johannes Brahms29
  42. Anatole France18
  43. Alexander Graham Bell15
  44. Octave Mirbeau14
  45. Gustave Flaubert41
  46. Ulysses S. Grant40
  47. Lewis Carroll30
  48. Wilhelm Röntgen17
  49. Ralph Waldo Emerson59
  50. Claude Monet22
  51. Guy de Maupassant12
  52. Selma Lagerlöf4
  53. Robert Louis Stevenson12
  54. Ivan Turgenev44
  55. John Stuart Mill56
  56. Florence Nightingale42
  57. Antonín Dvořák21
  58. Gustav Mahler2
  59. Walt Whitman43
  60. James A. Garfield31
  61. Emily Dickinson32
  62. William Howard Taft5
  63. Giacomo Puccini4
  64. Martin Van Buren79 †
  65. Grover Cleveland25
  66. Andrew Johnson54
  67. Henry David Thoreau44 †
  68. James Buchanan71
  69. Arthur Rimbaud8
  70. John Tyler71 †
  71. Mikhail Bakunin48
  72. William McKinley19
  73. Millard Fillmore62
  74. L. L. Zamenhof3
  75. Franklin Pierce58
  76. Rutherford B. Hayes40
  77. Paul Cézanne23
  78. Henryk Sienkiewicz16
  79. Benjamin Disraeli58
  80. George Eliot43
  81. Henri Bergson3
  82. George Sand58
  83. Benjamin Harrison29
  84. Hector Berlioz59
  85. James Prescott Joule44
  86. Knut Hamsun3
  87. Gregor Mendel40
  88. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres82
  89. Paul Gauguin14
  90. Chester A. Arthur33
  91. Maurice Maeterlinckborn
  92. Giuseppe Garibaldi55
  93. Herman Melville43
  94. Auguste Rodin22
  95. Antoni Gaudí10
  96. Henri Poincaré8
  97. Pierre Curie3
  98. Claude Debussyborn
  99. Wilhelm II3
  100. Joseph Conrad5
  101. Napoleon III54
  102. Franz Liszt51
  103. Theodor Mommsen45
  104. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson30
  105. Robert Koch19
  106. Émile Durkheim4
  107. Frédéric Mistral32
  108. William James20
  109. Ivan Pavlov13
  110. Giosuè Carducci27
  111. Sully Prudhomme23
  112. Gerhart Hauptmannborn
  113. Eugène Delacroix64
  114. Pius XI5
  115. Herbert Spencer42
  116. Joseph John Thomson6
  117. Thomas Carlyle67
  118. Thomas Hardy22
  119. Peter Kropotkin20
  120. Alfred Tennyson53

The 120 best known of 239 are listed.