Who was alive in 1797?
108 of the people we track were surely alive in 1797. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.
Born in 1797: Franz Schubert, Heinrich Heine, Mary Shelley and Wilhelm I.
Died in 1797: Mary Wollstonecraft and Edmund Burke.
- Napoleon28
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe48
- George Washington65
- Ludwig van Beethoven25–29
- Immanuel Kant73
- Thomas Jefferson54
- Lord Byron9
- Jane Austen22
- Carl Friedrich Gauss20
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel27
- John Adams62
- Francisco Goya51
- Friedrich Schiller38
- Michael Faraday6
- Katsushika Hokusai37
- James Madison46
- Simón Bolívar14
- Arthur Schopenhauer9
- Franz Schubertborn
- Heinrich Heineborn
- John Quincy Adams30
- Andrew Jackson30
- William Blake40
- James Watt61
- Joseph Haydn65
- James Monroe39
- Martin Van Buren15
- Zachary Taylor13
- James Buchanan6
- John Keats2
- James K. Polk2
- John Tyler7
- Percy Bysshe Shelley5
- Alexander von Humboldt28
- William Wordsworth27
- William Henry Harrison24
- Walter Scott26
- Stendhal14
- Thomas Paine60
- Joseph Fourier29
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres17
- Mary Shelleyborn
- Mary Wollstonecraft38 †
- Pierre-Simon Laplace48
- Edmund Burke68 †
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge25
- André-Marie Ampère22
- Thomas Carlyle2
- Alessandro Volta52
- William Herschel59
- Edward Jenner48
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte35
- Novalis25
- Charles Babbage6
- John Dalton31
- Alexander I of Russia20
- Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck53
- Washington Irving14
- Alphonse de Lamartine7
- Pius IX5
- George III of Great Britain59
- Carl von Clausewitz17
- Alessandro Manzoni12
- Gioachino Rossini5
- Giacomo Casanova72
- Marquis de Sade57
- Jeremy Bentham49
- Thomas Robert Malthus31
- Nicholas I of Russia1
- Horatio Nelson39
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange61
- Alexander Hamilton40
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington28
- Niccolò Paganini15
- Georg Simon Ohm8
- Johann Gottfried Herder53
- Humphry Davy19
- Charles-Augustin de Coulomb61
- Shaka Zulu8–12
- Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky5
- Hans Christian Ørsted20
- Gregory XVI32
- Wilhelm von Humboldt30
- David Ricardo25
- Samuel Finley Breese Morse6
- Isabelle de Charrière57
- Pius VII55
- William IV32
- Friedrich Hölderlin27
- Amedeo Avogadro21
- Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais65
- Klemens von Metternich24
- Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord43
- Paul I of Russia43
- Jacques-Louis David49
- George IV of the United Kingdom35
- François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand29
- Joseph Priestley64
- James Fenimore Cooper8
- Leo XII37
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling22
- E. T. A. Hoffmann21
- Wilhelm Iborn
- Thomas Young24
- Caspar David Friedrich23
- Pius VI80
- Henry Cavendish66
- Germaine de Staël31