Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1868?

260 of the people we track were surely alive in 1868. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1868: Maxim Gorky, Nicholas II of Russia, Robert Andrews Millikan and Fritz Haber.

Died in 1868: James Buchanan and Gioachino Rossini.

  1. Karl Marx50
  2. Leo Tolstoy40
  3. Charles Darwin59
  4. Victor Hugo66
  5. Vincent van Gogh15
  6. Fyodor Dostoyevsky47
  7. Friedrich Nietzsche24
  8. Thomas Edison21
  9. Mark Twain33
  10. Sigmund Freud12
  11. Charles Dickens56
  12. Marie Curie1
  13. Rabindranath Tagore7
  14. Hans Christian Andersen63
  15. Anton Chekhov8
  16. Oscar Wilde14
  17. Otto von Bismarck53
  18. Nikola Tesla12
  19. Louis Pasteur46
  20. Richard Wagner55
  21. Henry Ford5
  22. Friedrich Engels48
  23. Sarah Bernhardt24
  24. Alfred Nobel35
  25. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky28
  26. Theodore Roosevelt10
  27. Jules Verne40
  28. Woodrow Wilson12
  29. Rudyard Kipling3
  30. George Bernard Shaw12
  31. Max Planck10
  32. Arthur Conan Doyle9
  33. Maxim Gorkyborn
  34. Giuseppe Verdi55
  35. Dmitri Mendeleev34
  36. Frank Lloyd Wright1
  37. Victoria49
  38. Alexandre Dumas66
  39. Max Weber4
  40. Henrik Ibsen40
  41. H. G. Wells2
  42. Émile Zola28
  43. David Hilbert6
  44. James Clerk Maxwell37
  45. Johannes Brahms35
  46. Anatole France24
  47. Alexander Graham Bell21
  48. Octave Mirbeau20
  49. Gustave Flaubert47
  50. Ulysses S. Grant46
  51. Lewis Carroll36
  52. Wilhelm Röntgen23
  53. Ralph Waldo Emerson65
  54. Claude Monet28
  55. Guy de Maupassant18
  56. Selma Lagerlöf10
  57. Robert Louis Stevenson18
  58. William Butler Yeats3
  59. Ivan Turgenev50
  60. Sun Yat-sen2
  61. John Stuart Mill62
  62. Florence Nightingale48
  63. Antonín Dvořák27
  64. Gustav Mahler8
  65. Walt Whitman49
  66. James A. Garfield37
  67. Emily Dickinson38
  68. William Howard Taft11
  69. Giacomo Puccini10
  70. Grover Cleveland31
  71. Andrew Johnson60
  72. James Buchanan77 †
  73. Arthur Rimbaud14
  74. Mikhail Bakunin54
  75. William McKinley25
  76. Millard Fillmore68
  77. L. L. Zamenhof9
  78. Warren G. Harding3
  79. Romain Rolland2
  80. Franklin Pierce64
  81. Rutherford B. Hayes46
  82. Paul Cézanne29
  83. Henryk Sienkiewicz22
  84. Benjamin Disraeli64
  85. George Eliot49
  86. Henri Bergson9
  87. Swami Vivekananda5
  88. Nicholas II of Russiaborn
  89. George Sand64
  90. Benjamin Harrison35
  91. Hector Berlioz65
  92. James Prescott Joule50
  93. Knut Hamsun9
  94. Gregor Mendel46
  95. Luigi Pirandello1
  96. Paul Gauguin20
  97. Chester A. Arthur39
  98. Maurice Maeterlinck6
  99. Giuseppe Garibaldi61
  100. Herman Melville49
  101. Auguste Rodin28
  102. Antoni Gaudí16
  103. Henri Poincaré14
  104. Pierre Curie9
  105. Claude Debussy6
  106. Wilhelm II9
  107. Joseph Conrad11
  108. Napoleon III60
  109. Franz Liszt57
  110. Theodor Mommsen51
  111. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson36
  112. Robert Koch25
  113. Émile Durkheim10
  114. Frédéric Mistral38
  115. William James26
  116. Ivan Pavlov19
  117. Giosuè Carducci33
  118. Sully Prudhomme29
  119. Gerhart Hauptmann6
  120. Pius XI11

The 120 best known of 260 are listed.