Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1871?

267 of the people we track were surely alive in 1871. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1871: Marcel Proust, Rosa Luxemburg, Ernest Rutherford, Grazia Deledda, Lesya Ukrainka and Paul Valéry.

Died in 1871: Charles Babbage.

  1. Karl Marx53
  2. Vladimir Lenin1
  3. Mahatma Gandhi2
  4. Leo Tolstoy43
  5. Charles Darwin62
  6. Victor Hugo69
  7. Vincent van Gogh18
  8. Fyodor Dostoyevsky50
  9. Friedrich Nietzsche27
  10. Thomas Edison24
  11. Mark Twain36
  12. Sigmund Freud15
  13. Marie Curie4
  14. Rabindranath Tagore10
  15. Hans Christian Andersen66
  16. Anton Chekhov11
  17. Oscar Wilde17
  18. Otto von Bismarck56
  19. Nikola Tesla15
  20. Louis Pasteur49
  21. Richard Wagner58
  22. Henry Ford8
  23. Friedrich Engels51
  24. Sarah Bernhardt27
  25. Alfred Nobel38
  26. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky31
  27. Theodore Roosevelt13
  28. Marcel Proustborn
  29. Jules Verne43
  30. Woodrow Wilson15
  31. Rosa Luxemburgborn
  32. Rudyard Kipling6
  33. George Bernard Shaw15
  34. Max Planck13
  35. Arthur Conan Doyle12
  36. Maxim Gorky3
  37. Henri Matisse2
  38. Giuseppe Verdi58
  39. Dmitri Mendeleev37
  40. Frank Lloyd Wright4
  41. Victoria52
  42. Ernest Rutherfordborn
  43. Max Weber7
  44. Henrik Ibsen43
  45. H. G. Wells5
  46. Émile Zola31
  47. David Hilbert9
  48. James Clerk Maxwell40
  49. Johannes Brahms38
  50. Anatole France27
  51. Alexander Graham Bell24
  52. Octave Mirbeau23
  53. Gustave Flaubert50
  54. Ulysses S. Grant49
  55. Lewis Carroll39
  56. Wilhelm Röntgen26
  57. Ralph Waldo Emerson68
  58. Claude Monet31
  59. Guy de Maupassant21
  60. Selma Lagerlöf13
  61. Robert Louis Stevenson21
  62. William Butler Yeats6
  63. Ivan Turgenev53
  64. Sun Yat-sen5
  65. John Stuart Mill65
  66. Florence Nightingale51
  67. Antonín Dvořák30
  68. Gustav Mahler11
  69. Walt Whitman52
  70. James A. Garfield40
  71. Emily Dickinson41
  72. William Howard Taft14
  73. Giacomo Puccini13
  74. Grover Cleveland34
  75. Andrew Johnson63
  76. Arthur Rimbaud17
  77. André Gide2
  78. Mikhail Bakunin57
  79. William McKinley28
  80. Millard Fillmore71
  81. L. L. Zamenhof12
  82. Warren G. Harding6
  83. Romain Rolland5
  84. Rutherford B. Hayes49
  85. Paul Cézanne32
  86. Henryk Sienkiewicz25
  87. Benjamin Disraeli67
  88. George Eliot52
  89. Henri Bergson12
  90. Swami Vivekananda8
  91. Nicholas II of Russia3
  92. George Sand67
  93. Benjamin Harrison38
  94. James Prescott Joule53
  95. Knut Hamsun12
  96. Gregor Mendel49
  97. Luigi Pirandello4
  98. Paul Gauguin23
  99. Chester A. Arthur42
  100. Maurice Maeterlinck9
  101. Giuseppe Garibaldi64
  102. Herman Melville52
  103. Auguste Rodin31
  104. Antoni Gaudí19
  105. Henri Poincaré17
  106. Pierre Curie12
  107. Claude Debussy9
  108. Wilhelm II12
  109. Joseph Conrad14
  110. Napoleon III63
  111. Franz Liszt60
  112. Theodor Mommsen54
  113. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson39
  114. Emma Goldman2
  115. Robert Koch28
  116. Émile Durkheim13
  117. Ivan Bunin1
  118. Frédéric Mistral41
  119. William James29
  120. Ivan Pavlov22

The 120 best known of 267 are listed.