Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1864?

246 of the people we track were surely alive in 1864. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1864: Max Weber, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Wilhelm Wien, Richard Strauss and Miguel de Unamuno.

Died in 1864: Nathaniel Hawthorne and George Boole.

  1. Karl Marx46
  2. Abraham Lincoln55
  3. Leo Tolstoy36
  4. Charles Darwin55
  5. Victor Hugo62
  6. Vincent van Gogh11
  7. Fyodor Dostoyevsky43
  8. Friedrich Nietzsche20
  9. Thomas Edison17
  10. Mark Twain29
  11. Sigmund Freud8
  12. Charles Dickens52
  13. Rabindranath Tagore3
  14. Hans Christian Andersen59
  15. Anton Chekhov4
  16. Oscar Wilde10
  17. Otto von Bismarck49
  18. Nikola Tesla8
  19. Louis Pasteur42
  20. Richard Wagner51
  21. Henry Ford1
  22. Friedrich Engels44
  23. Sarah Bernhardt20
  24. Alfred Nobel31
  25. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky24
  26. Theodore Roosevelt6
  27. Jules Verne36
  28. Woodrow Wilson8
  29. George Bernard Shaw8
  30. Max Planck6
  31. Arthur Conan Doyle5
  32. Michael Faraday73
  33. Giuseppe Verdi51
  34. Charles Baudelaire43
  35. Dmitri Mendeleev30
  36. Victoria45
  37. Alexandre Dumas62
  38. Max Weberborn
  39. Henrik Ibsen36
  40. Émile Zola24
  41. David Hilbert2
  42. James Clerk Maxwell33
  43. Johannes Brahms31
  44. Anatole France20
  45. Alexander Graham Bell17
  46. Octave Mirbeau16
  47. Gustave Flaubert43
  48. Ulysses S. Grant42
  49. Lewis Carroll32
  50. Wilhelm Röntgen19
  51. Ralph Waldo Emerson61
  52. Claude Monet24
  53. Guy de Maupassant14
  54. Selma Lagerlöf6
  55. Robert Louis Stevenson14
  56. Ivan Turgenev46
  57. John Stuart Mill58
  58. Florence Nightingale44
  59. Antonín Dvořák23
  60. Gustav Mahler4
  61. Walt Whitman45
  62. James A. Garfield33
  63. Emily Dickinson34
  64. William Howard Taft7
  65. Giacomo Puccini6
  66. Grover Cleveland27
  67. Andrew Johnson56
  68. James Buchanan73
  69. Arthur Rimbaud10
  70. Mikhail Bakunin50
  71. William McKinley21
  72. Millard Fillmore64
  73. L. L. Zamenhof5
  74. Franklin Pierce60
  75. Rutherford B. Hayes42
  76. Paul Cézanne25
  77. Henryk Sienkiewicz18
  78. Benjamin Disraeli60
  79. George Eliot45
  80. Henri Bergson5
  81. Swami Vivekananda1
  82. George Sand60
  83. Benjamin Harrison31
  84. Hector Berlioz61
  85. James Prescott Joule46
  86. Knut Hamsun5
  87. Gregor Mendel42
  88. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres84
  89. Paul Gauguin16
  90. Chester A. Arthur35
  91. Maurice Maeterlinck2
  92. Giuseppe Garibaldi57
  93. Herman Melville45
  94. Auguste Rodin24
  95. Antoni Gaudí12
  96. Henri Poincaré10
  97. Pierre Curie5
  98. Claude Debussy2
  99. Wilhelm II5
  100. Joseph Conrad7
  101. Napoleon III56
  102. Franz Liszt53
  103. Theodor Mommsen47
  104. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson32
  105. Robert Koch21
  106. Émile Durkheim6
  107. Frédéric Mistral34
  108. William James22
  109. Ivan Pavlov15
  110. Giosuè Carducci29
  111. Sully Prudhomme25
  112. Gerhart Hauptmann2
  113. Pius XI7
  114. Herbert Spencer44
  115. Joseph John Thomson8
  116. Edvard Munch1
  117. Thomas Carlyle69
  118. Thomas Hardy24
  119. Peter Kropotkin22
  120. Alfred Tennyson55

The 120 best known of 246 are listed.