Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1873?

270 of the people we track were surely alive in 1873. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1873: Sergei Rachmaninoff, Henri Barbusse and Johannes V. Jensen.

Died in 1873: John Stuart Mill, Napoleon III, Alessandro Manzoni and David Livingstone.

  1. Karl Marx55
  2. Vladimir Lenin3
  3. Mahatma Gandhi4
  4. Leo Tolstoy45
  5. Charles Darwin64
  6. Victor Hugo71
  7. Vincent van Gogh20
  8. Fyodor Dostoyevsky52
  9. Friedrich Nietzsche29
  10. Thomas Edison26
  11. Mark Twain38
  12. Sigmund Freud17
  13. Marie Curie6
  14. Rabindranath Tagore12
  15. Hans Christian Andersen68
  16. Anton Chekhov13
  17. Oscar Wilde19
  18. Otto von Bismarck58
  19. Nikola Tesla17
  20. Louis Pasteur51
  21. Richard Wagner60
  22. Henry Ford10
  23. Friedrich Engels53
  24. Sarah Bernhardt29
  25. Alfred Nobel40
  26. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky33
  27. Theodore Roosevelt15
  28. Marcel Proust2
  29. Jules Verne45
  30. Woodrow Wilson17
  31. Rosa Luxemburg2
  32. Roald Amundsen1
  33. Rudyard Kipling8
  34. George Bernard Shaw17
  35. Bertrand Russell1
  36. Max Planck15
  37. Arthur Conan Doyle14
  38. Maxim Gorky5
  39. Henri Matisse4
  40. Giuseppe Verdi60
  41. Dmitri Mendeleev39
  42. Frank Lloyd Wright6
  43. Victoria54
  44. Ernest Rutherford2
  45. Max Weber9
  46. Henrik Ibsen45
  47. H. G. Wells7
  48. Émile Zola33
  49. David Hilbert11
  50. James Clerk Maxwell42
  51. Johannes Brahms40
  52. Anatole France29
  53. Alexander Graham Bell26
  54. Octave Mirbeau25
  55. Calvin Coolidge1
  56. Gustave Flaubert52
  57. Ulysses S. Grant51
  58. Lewis Carroll41
  59. Wilhelm Röntgen28
  60. Ralph Waldo Emerson70
  61. Claude Monet33
  62. Guy de Maupassant23
  63. Selma Lagerlöf15
  64. Robert Louis Stevenson23
  65. William Butler Yeats8
  66. Ivan Turgenev55
  67. Sun Yat-sen7
  68. John Stuart Mill66 †
  69. Florence Nightingale53
  70. Antonín Dvořák32
  71. Gustav Mahler13
  72. Walt Whitman54
  73. James A. Garfield42
  74. Emily Dickinson43
  75. William Howard Taft16
  76. Giacomo Puccini15
  77. Grover Cleveland36
  78. Andrew Johnson65
  79. Arthur Rimbaud19
  80. André Gide4
  81. Mikhail Bakunin59
  82. William McKinley30
  83. Millard Fillmore73
  84. L. L. Zamenhof14
  85. Warren G. Harding8
  86. Romain Rolland7
  87. Rutherford B. Hayes51
  88. Paul Cézanne34
  89. Henryk Sienkiewicz27
  90. Benjamin Disraeli69
  91. George Eliot54
  92. Henri Bergson14
  93. Swami Vivekananda10
  94. Nicholas II of Russia5
  95. George Sand69
  96. Benjamin Harrison40
  97. James Prescott Joule55
  98. Knut Hamsun14
  99. Gregor Mendel51
  100. Luigi Pirandello6
  101. Paul Gauguin25
  102. Chester A. Arthur44
  103. Maurice Maeterlinck11
  104. Giuseppe Garibaldi66
  105. Herman Melville54
  106. Auguste Rodin33
  107. Antoni Gaudí21
  108. Henri Poincaré19
  109. Pierre Curie14
  110. Claude Debussy11
  111. Wilhelm II14
  112. Joseph Conrad16
  113. Napoleon III64 †
  114. Franz Liszt62
  115. Theodor Mommsen56
  116. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson41
  117. Emma Goldman4
  118. Robert Koch30
  119. Émile Durkheim15
  120. Ivan Bunin3

The 120 best known of 270 are listed.