Who was alive in 1799?
111 of the people we track were surely alive in 1799. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.
Born in 1799: Alexander Pushkin and Honoré de Balzac.
Died in 1799: George Washington, Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais and Pius VI.
- Napoleon30
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe50
- George Washington67 †
- Ludwig van Beethoven27–31
- Immanuel Kant75
- Alexander Pushkinborn
- Thomas Jefferson56
- Lord Byron11
- Jane Austen24
- Carl Friedrich Gauss22
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel29
- John Adams64
- Francisco Goya53
- Friedrich Schiller40
- Michael Faraday8
- Katsushika Hokusai39
- James Madison48
- Honoré de Balzacborn
- Simón Bolívar16
- Arthur Schopenhauer11
- Franz Schubert2
- Heinrich Heine2
- John Quincy Adams32
- Andrew Jackson32
- William Blake42
- James Watt63
- Joseph Haydn67
- James Monroe41
- Martin Van Buren17
- Zachary Taylor15
- James Buchanan8
- John Keats4
- James K. Polk4
- John Tyler9
- Percy Bysshe Shelley7
- Alexander von Humboldt30
- William Wordsworth29
- William Henry Harrison26
- Walter Scott28
- Stendhal16
- Thomas Paine62
- Joseph Fourier31
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres19
- Mary Shelley2
- Auguste Comte1
- Adam Mickiewicz1
- Pierre-Simon Laplace50
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge27
- Eugène Delacroix1
- André-Marie Ampère24
- Thomas Carlyle4
- Alessandro Volta54
- William Herschel61
- Edward Jenner50
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte37
- Novalis27
- Charles Babbage8
- John Dalton33
- Giacomo Leopardi1
- Alexander I of Russia22
- Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck55
- Washington Irving16
- Alphonse de Lamartine9
- Pius IX7
- George III of Great Britain61
- Carl von Clausewitz19
- Alessandro Manzoni14
- Gioachino Rossini7
- Marquis de Sade59
- Jeremy Bentham51
- Thomas Robert Malthus33
- Nicholas I of Russia3
- Horatio Nelson41
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange63
- Alexander Hamilton42
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington30
- Niccolò Paganini17
- Georg Simon Ohm10
- Johann Gottfried Herder55
- Humphry Davy21
- Charles-Augustin de Coulomb63
- Shaka Zulu10–14
- Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky7
- Hans Christian Ørsted22
- Gregory XVI34
- Wilhelm von Humboldt32
- David Ricardo27
- Samuel Finley Breese Morse8
- Isabelle de Charrière59
- Pius VII57
- William IV34
- Friedrich Hölderlin29
- Amedeo Avogadro23
- Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais67 †
- Klemens von Metternich26
- Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord45
- Paul I of Russia45
- Jacques-Louis David51
- George IV of the United Kingdom37
- François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand31
- Joseph Priestley66
- James Fenimore Cooper10
- Leo XII39
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling24
- E. T. A. Hoffmann23
- Wilhelm I2
- Thomas Young26
- Caspar David Friedrich25
- Pius VI81 †
- Henry Cavendish68
- Germaine de Staël33