Who was alive in 1866?
253 of the people we track were surely alive in 1866. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.
Born in 1866: H. G. Wells, Sun Yat-sen, Romain Rolland, Wassily Kandinsky and Jacinto Benavente.
Died in 1866: Bernhard Riemann.
- Karl Marx48
- Leo Tolstoy38
- Charles Darwin57
- Victor Hugo64
- Vincent van Gogh13
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky45
- Friedrich Nietzsche22
- Thomas Edison19
- Mark Twain31
- Sigmund Freud10
- Charles Dickens54
- Rabindranath Tagore5
- Hans Christian Andersen61
- Anton Chekhov6
- Oscar Wilde12
- Otto von Bismarck51
- Nikola Tesla10
- Louis Pasteur44
- Richard Wagner53
- Henry Ford3
- Friedrich Engels46
- Sarah Bernhardt22
- Alfred Nobel33
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky26
- Theodore Roosevelt8
- Jules Verne38
- Woodrow Wilson10
- Rudyard Kipling1
- George Bernard Shaw10
- Max Planck8
- Arthur Conan Doyle7
- Michael Faraday75
- Giuseppe Verdi53
- Charles Baudelaire45
- Dmitri Mendeleev32
- Victoria47
- Alexandre Dumas64
- Max Weber2
- Henrik Ibsen38
- H. G. Wellsborn
- Émile Zola26
- David Hilbert4
- James Clerk Maxwell35
- Johannes Brahms33
- Anatole France22
- Alexander Graham Bell19
- Octave Mirbeau18
- Gustave Flaubert45
- Ulysses S. Grant44
- Lewis Carroll34
- Wilhelm Röntgen21
- Ralph Waldo Emerson63
- Claude Monet26
- Guy de Maupassant16
- Selma Lagerlöf8
- Robert Louis Stevenson16
- William Butler Yeats1
- Ivan Turgenev48
- Sun Yat-senborn
- John Stuart Mill60
- Florence Nightingale46
- Antonín Dvořák25
- Gustav Mahler6
- Walt Whitman47
- James A. Garfield35
- Emily Dickinson36
- William Howard Taft9
- Giacomo Puccini8
- Grover Cleveland29
- Andrew Johnson58
- James Buchanan75
- Arthur Rimbaud12
- Mikhail Bakunin52
- William McKinley23
- Millard Fillmore66
- L. L. Zamenhof7
- Warren G. Harding1
- Romain Rollandborn
- Franklin Pierce62
- Rutherford B. Hayes44
- Paul Cézanne27
- Henryk Sienkiewicz20
- Benjamin Disraeli62
- George Eliot47
- Henri Bergson7
- Swami Vivekananda3
- George Sand62
- Benjamin Harrison33
- Hector Berlioz63
- James Prescott Joule48
- Knut Hamsun7
- Gregor Mendel44
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres86
- Paul Gauguin18
- Chester A. Arthur37
- Maurice Maeterlinck4
- Giuseppe Garibaldi59
- Herman Melville47
- Auguste Rodin26
- Antoni Gaudí14
- Henri Poincaré12
- Pierre Curie7
- Claude Debussy4
- Wilhelm II7
- Joseph Conrad9
- Napoleon III58
- Franz Liszt55
- Theodor Mommsen49
- Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson34
- Robert Koch23
- Émile Durkheim8
- Frédéric Mistral36
- William James24
- Ivan Pavlov17
- Giosuè Carducci31
- Sully Prudhomme27
- Gerhart Hauptmann4
- Pius XI9
- Herbert Spencer46
- Joseph John Thomson10
The 120 best known of 253 are listed.