Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1875?

277 of the people we track were surely alive in 1875. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1875: Thomas Mann, Carl Jung, Rainer Maria Rilke, Albert Schweitzer and Maurice Ravel.

Died in 1875: Hans Christian Andersen, Andrew Johnson and Georges Bizet.

  1. Karl Marx57
  2. Vladimir Lenin5
  3. Mahatma Gandhi6
  4. Leo Tolstoy47
  5. Charles Darwin66
  6. Victor Hugo73
  7. Vincent van Gogh22
  8. Winston Churchill1
  9. Fyodor Dostoyevsky54
  10. Friedrich Nietzsche31
  11. Thomas Edison28
  12. Mark Twain40
  13. Sigmund Freud19
  14. Marie Curie8
  15. Rabindranath Tagore14
  16. Hans Christian Andersen70 †
  17. Anton Chekhov15
  18. Oscar Wilde21
  19. Otto von Bismarck60
  20. Nikola Tesla19
  21. Louis Pasteur53
  22. Richard Wagner62
  23. Henry Ford12
  24. Friedrich Engels55
  25. Sarah Bernhardt31
  26. Alfred Nobel42
  27. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky35
  28. Theodore Roosevelt17
  29. Marcel Proust4
  30. Jules Verne47
  31. Woodrow Wilson19
  32. Rosa Luxemburg4
  33. Roald Amundsen3
  34. Rudyard Kipling10
  35. George Bernard Shaw19
  36. Bertrand Russell3
  37. Max Planck17
  38. Arthur Conan Doyle16
  39. Maxim Gorky7
  40. Henri Matisse6
  41. Giuseppe Verdi62
  42. Dmitri Mendeleev41
  43. Frank Lloyd Wright8
  44. Victoria56
  45. Ernest Rutherford4
  46. Max Weber11
  47. Henrik Ibsen47
  48. H. G. Wells9
  49. Émile Zola35
  50. David Hilbert13
  51. Thomas Mannborn
  52. James Clerk Maxwell44
  53. Herbert Hoover1
  54. Johannes Brahms42
  55. Anatole France31
  56. Alexander Graham Bell28
  57. Octave Mirbeau27
  58. Calvin Coolidge3
  59. Gustave Flaubert54
  60. Ulysses S. Grant53
  61. Lewis Carroll43
  62. Wilhelm Röntgen30
  63. Ralph Waldo Emerson72
  64. Claude Monet35
  65. Guy de Maupassant25
  66. Selma Lagerlöf17
  67. Robert Louis Stevenson25
  68. William Butler Yeats10
  69. Ivan Turgenev57
  70. Sun Yat-sen9
  71. Carl Jungborn
  72. Florence Nightingale55
  73. Antonín Dvořák34
  74. Gustav Mahler15
  75. Walt Whitman56
  76. James A. Garfield44
  77. Emily Dickinson45
  78. William Howard Taft18
  79. Giacomo Puccini17
  80. Grover Cleveland38
  81. Andrew Johnson66 †
  82. Arthur Rimbaud21
  83. André Gide6
  84. Mikhail Bakunin61
  85. William McKinley32
  86. L. L. Zamenhof16
  87. Warren G. Harding10
  88. Romain Rolland9
  89. Rutherford B. Hayes53
  90. Paul Cézanne36
  91. Henryk Sienkiewicz29
  92. Benjamin Disraeli71
  93. George Eliot56
  94. Henri Bergson16
  95. Swami Vivekananda12
  96. Nicholas II of Russia7
  97. George Sand71
  98. Benjamin Harrison42
  99. James Prescott Joule57
  100. Knut Hamsun16
  101. Gregor Mendel53
  102. Luigi Pirandello8
  103. Rainer Maria Rilkeborn
  104. Paul Gauguin27
  105. Chester A. Arthur46
  106. Maurice Maeterlinck13
  107. Giuseppe Garibaldi68
  108. Herman Melville56
  109. Auguste Rodin35
  110. Antoni Gaudí23
  111. Henri Poincaré21
  112. Pierre Curie16
  113. Claude Debussy13
  114. Wilhelm II16
  115. Guglielmo Marconi1
  116. Joseph Conrad18
  117. Franz Liszt64
  118. Robert Frost1
  119. Theodor Mommsen58
  120. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson43

The 120 best known of 277 are listed.