Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1798?

110 of the people we track were surely alive in 1798. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1798: Auguste Comte, Adam Mickiewicz, Eugène Delacroix and Giacomo Leopardi.

Died in 1798: Giacomo Casanova.

  1. Napoleon29
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe49
  3. George Washington66
  4. Ludwig van Beethoven26–30
  5. Immanuel Kant74
  6. Thomas Jefferson55
  7. Lord Byron10
  8. Jane Austen23
  9. Carl Friedrich Gauss21
  10. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel28
  11. John Adams63
  12. Francisco Goya52
  13. Friedrich Schiller39
  14. Michael Faraday7
  15. Katsushika Hokusai38
  16. James Madison47
  17. Simón Bolívar15
  18. Arthur Schopenhauer10
  19. Franz Schubert1
  20. Heinrich Heine1
  21. John Quincy Adams31
  22. Andrew Jackson31
  23. William Blake41
  24. James Watt62
  25. Joseph Haydn66
  26. James Monroe40
  27. Martin Van Buren16
  28. Zachary Taylor14
  29. James Buchanan7
  30. John Keats3
  31. James K. Polk3
  32. John Tyler8
  33. Percy Bysshe Shelley6
  34. Alexander von Humboldt29
  35. William Wordsworth28
  36. William Henry Harrison25
  37. Walter Scott27
  38. Stendhal15
  39. Thomas Paine61
  40. Joseph Fourier30
  41. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres18
  42. Mary Shelley1
  43. Auguste Comteborn
  44. Adam Mickiewiczborn
  45. Pierre-Simon Laplace49
  46. Samuel Taylor Coleridge26
  47. Eugène Delacroixborn
  48. André-Marie Ampère23
  49. Thomas Carlyle3
  50. Alessandro Volta53
  51. William Herschel60
  52. Edward Jenner49
  53. Johann Gottlieb Fichte36
  54. Novalis26
  55. Charles Babbage7
  56. John Dalton32
  57. Giacomo Leopardiborn
  58. Alexander I of Russia21
  59. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck54
  60. Washington Irving15
  61. Alphonse de Lamartine8
  62. Pius IX6
  63. George III of Great Britain60
  64. Carl von Clausewitz18
  65. Alessandro Manzoni13
  66. Gioachino Rossini6
  67. Giacomo Casanova73 †
  68. Marquis de Sade58
  69. Jeremy Bentham50
  70. Thomas Robert Malthus32
  71. Nicholas I of Russia2
  72. Horatio Nelson40
  73. Joseph-Louis Lagrange62
  74. Alexander Hamilton41
  75. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington29
  76. Niccolò Paganini16
  77. Georg Simon Ohm9
  78. Johann Gottfried Herder54
  79. Humphry Davy20
  80. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb62
  81. Shaka Zulu9–13
  82. Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky6
  83. Hans Christian Ørsted21
  84. Gregory XVI33
  85. Wilhelm von Humboldt31
  86. David Ricardo26
  87. Samuel Finley Breese Morse7
  88. Isabelle de Charrière58
  89. Pius VII56
  90. William IV33
  91. Friedrich Hölderlin28
  92. Amedeo Avogadro22
  93. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais66
  94. Klemens von Metternich25
  95. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord44
  96. Paul I of Russia44
  97. Jacques-Louis David50
  98. George IV of the United Kingdom36
  99. François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand30
  100. Joseph Priestley65
  101. James Fenimore Cooper9
  102. Leo XII38
  103. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling23
  104. E. T. A. Hoffmann22
  105. Wilhelm I1
  106. Thomas Young25
  107. Caspar David Friedrich24
  108. Pius VI81
  109. Henry Cavendish67
  110. Germaine de Staël32