Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1865?

250 of the people we track were surely alive in 1865. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1865: Rudyard Kipling, William Butler Yeats, Warren G. Harding, George V, Jean Sibelius and Pieter Zeeman.

Died in 1865: Abraham Lincoln and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon.

  1. Karl Marx47
  2. Abraham Lincoln56 †
  3. Leo Tolstoy37
  4. Charles Darwin56
  5. Victor Hugo63
  6. Vincent van Gogh12
  7. Fyodor Dostoyevsky44
  8. Friedrich Nietzsche21
  9. Thomas Edison18
  10. Mark Twain30
  11. Sigmund Freud9
  12. Charles Dickens53
  13. Rabindranath Tagore4
  14. Hans Christian Andersen60
  15. Anton Chekhov5
  16. Oscar Wilde11
  17. Otto von Bismarck50
  18. Nikola Tesla9
  19. Louis Pasteur43
  20. Richard Wagner52
  21. Henry Ford2
  22. Friedrich Engels45
  23. Sarah Bernhardt21
  24. Alfred Nobel32
  25. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky25
  26. Theodore Roosevelt7
  27. Jules Verne37
  28. Woodrow Wilson9
  29. Rudyard Kiplingborn
  30. George Bernard Shaw9
  31. Max Planck7
  32. Arthur Conan Doyle6
  33. Michael Faraday74
  34. Giuseppe Verdi52
  35. Charles Baudelaire44
  36. Dmitri Mendeleev31
  37. Victoria46
  38. Alexandre Dumas63
  39. Max Weber1
  40. Henrik Ibsen37
  41. Émile Zola25
  42. David Hilbert3
  43. James Clerk Maxwell34
  44. Johannes Brahms32
  45. Anatole France21
  46. Alexander Graham Bell18
  47. Octave Mirbeau17
  48. Gustave Flaubert44
  49. Ulysses S. Grant43
  50. Lewis Carroll33
  51. Wilhelm Röntgen20
  52. Ralph Waldo Emerson62
  53. Claude Monet25
  54. Guy de Maupassant15
  55. Selma Lagerlöf7
  56. Robert Louis Stevenson15
  57. William Butler Yeatsborn
  58. Ivan Turgenev47
  59. John Stuart Mill59
  60. Florence Nightingale45
  61. Antonín Dvořák24
  62. Gustav Mahler5
  63. Walt Whitman46
  64. James A. Garfield34
  65. Emily Dickinson35
  66. William Howard Taft8
  67. Giacomo Puccini7
  68. Grover Cleveland28
  69. Andrew Johnson57
  70. James Buchanan74
  71. Arthur Rimbaud11
  72. Mikhail Bakunin51
  73. William McKinley22
  74. Millard Fillmore65
  75. L. L. Zamenhof6
  76. Warren G. Hardingborn
  77. Franklin Pierce61
  78. Rutherford B. Hayes43
  79. Paul Cézanne26
  80. Henryk Sienkiewicz19
  81. Benjamin Disraeli61
  82. George Eliot46
  83. Henri Bergson6
  84. Swami Vivekananda2
  85. George Sand61
  86. Benjamin Harrison32
  87. Hector Berlioz62
  88. James Prescott Joule47
  89. Knut Hamsun6
  90. Gregor Mendel43
  91. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres85
  92. Paul Gauguin17
  93. Chester A. Arthur36
  94. Maurice Maeterlinck3
  95. Giuseppe Garibaldi58
  96. Herman Melville46
  97. Auguste Rodin25
  98. Antoni Gaudí13
  99. Henri Poincaré11
  100. Pierre Curie6
  101. Claude Debussy3
  102. Wilhelm II6
  103. Joseph Conrad8
  104. Napoleon III57
  105. Franz Liszt54
  106. Theodor Mommsen48
  107. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson33
  108. Robert Koch22
  109. Émile Durkheim7
  110. Frédéric Mistral35
  111. William James23
  112. Ivan Pavlov16
  113. Giosuè Carducci30
  114. Sully Prudhomme26
  115. Gerhart Hauptmann3
  116. Pius XI8
  117. Herbert Spencer45
  118. Joseph John Thomson9
  119. Edvard Munch2
  120. Thomas Carlyle70

The 120 best known of 250 are listed.