Who Was Alive

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.

  1. Napoleon28
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe48
  3. George Washington65
  4. Ludwig van Beethoven25–29
  5. Immanuel Kant73
  6. Thomas Jefferson54
  7. Lord Byron9
  8. Jane Austen22
  9. Carl Friedrich Gauss20
  10. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel27
  11. John Adams62
  12. Francisco Goya51
  13. Friedrich Schiller38
  14. Michael Faraday6
  15. Katsushika Hokusai37
  16. James Madison46
  17. Simón Bolívar14
  18. Arthur Schopenhauer9
  19. Franz Schubertborn
  20. Heinrich Heineborn
  21. John Quincy Adams30
  22. Andrew Jackson30
  23. William Blake40
  24. James Watt61
  25. Joseph Haydn65
  26. James Monroe39
  27. Martin Van Buren15
  28. Zachary Taylor13
  29. James Buchanan6
  30. John Keats2
  31. James K. Polk2
  32. John Tyler7
  33. Percy Bysshe Shelley5
  34. Alexander von Humboldt28
  35. William Wordsworth27
  36. William Henry Harrison24
  37. Walter Scott26
  38. Stendhal14
  39. Thomas Paine60
  40. Joseph Fourier29
  41. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres17
  42. Mary Shelleyborn
  43. Mary Wollstonecraft38 †
  44. Pierre-Simon Laplace48
  45. Edmund Burke68 †
  46. Samuel Taylor Coleridge25
  47. André-Marie Ampère22
  48. Thomas Carlyle2
  49. Alessandro Volta52
  50. William Herschel59
  51. Edward Jenner48
  52. Johann Gottlieb Fichte35
  53. Novalis25
  54. Charles Babbage6
  55. John Dalton31
  56. Alexander I of Russia20
  57. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck53
  58. Washington Irving14
  59. Alphonse de Lamartine7
  60. Pius IX5
  61. George III of Great Britain59
  62. Carl von Clausewitz17
  63. Alessandro Manzoni12
  64. Gioachino Rossini5
  65. Giacomo Casanova72
  66. Marquis de Sade57
  67. Jeremy Bentham49
  68. Thomas Robert Malthus31
  69. Nicholas I of Russia1
  70. Horatio Nelson39
  71. Joseph-Louis Lagrange61
  72. Alexander Hamilton40
  73. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington28
  74. Niccolò Paganini15
  75. Georg Simon Ohm8
  76. Johann Gottfried Herder53
  77. Humphry Davy19
  78. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb61
  79. Shaka Zulu8–12
  80. Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky5
  81. Hans Christian Ørsted20
  82. Gregory XVI32
  83. Wilhelm von Humboldt30
  84. David Ricardo25
  85. Samuel Finley Breese Morse6
  86. Isabelle de Charrière57
  87. Pius VII55
  88. William IV32
  89. Friedrich Hölderlin27
  90. Amedeo Avogadro21
  91. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais65
  92. Klemens von Metternich24
  93. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord43
  94. Paul I of Russia43
  95. Jacques-Louis David49
  96. George IV of the United Kingdom35
  97. François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand29
  98. Joseph Priestley64
  99. James Fenimore Cooper8
  100. Leo XII37
  101. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling22
  102. E. T. A. Hoffmann21
  103. Wilhelm Iborn
  104. Thomas Young24
  105. Caspar David Friedrich23
  106. Pius VI80
  107. Henry Cavendish66
  108. Germaine de Staël31