Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1802?

110 of the people we track were surely alive in 1802. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1802: Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas and Niels Henrik Abel.

  1. Napoleon33
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe53
  3. Ludwig van Beethoven30–34
  4. Victor Hugoborn
  5. Immanuel Kant78
  6. Alexander Pushkin3
  7. Thomas Jefferson59
  8. Lord Byron14
  9. Jane Austen27
  10. Carl Friedrich Gauss25
  11. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel32
  12. John Adams67
  13. Francisco Goya56
  14. Friedrich Schiller43
  15. Michael Faraday11
  16. Katsushika Hokusai42
  17. James Madison51
  18. Honoré de Balzac3
  19. Simón Bolívar19
  20. Arthur Schopenhauer14
  21. Alexandre Dumasborn
  22. Franz Schubert5
  23. Heinrich Heine5
  24. John Quincy Adams35
  25. Andrew Jackson35
  26. William Blake45
  27. James Watt66
  28. Joseph Haydn70
  29. James Monroe44
  30. Martin Van Buren20
  31. Zachary Taylor18
  32. James Buchanan11
  33. John Keats7
  34. James K. Polk7
  35. John Tyler12
  36. Percy Bysshe Shelley10
  37. Alexander von Humboldt33
  38. William Wordsworth32
  39. Millard Fillmore2
  40. William Henry Harrison29
  41. Walter Scott31
  42. Stendhal19
  43. Thomas Paine65
  44. Joseph Fourier34
  45. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres22
  46. Mary Shelley5
  47. Auguste Comte4
  48. Adam Mickiewicz4
  49. Pierre-Simon Laplace53
  50. Samuel Taylor Coleridge30
  51. Eugène Delacroix4
  52. André-Marie Ampère27
  53. Thomas Carlyle7
  54. Alessandro Volta57
  55. William Herschel64
  56. Edward Jenner53
  57. Johann Gottlieb Fichte40
  58. Charles Babbage11
  59. John Dalton36
  60. Giacomo Leopardi4
  61. Alexander I of Russia25
  62. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck58
  63. Washington Irving19
  64. Alphonse de Lamartine12
  65. Pius IX10
  66. George III of Great Britain64
  67. Carl von Clausewitz22
  68. Alessandro Manzoni17
  69. Gioachino Rossini10
  70. Marquis de Sade62
  71. Jeremy Bentham54
  72. Thomas Robert Malthus36
  73. Nicholas I of Russia6
  74. Horatio Nelson44
  75. Joseph-Louis Lagrange66
  76. Alexander Hamilton45
  77. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington33
  78. Niccolò Paganini20
  79. Georg Simon Ohm13
  80. Johann Gottfried Herder58
  81. Humphry Davy24
  82. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb66
  83. Shaka Zulu13–17
  84. Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky10
  85. Hans Christian Ørsted25
  86. Gregory XVI37
  87. Wilhelm von Humboldt35
  88. David Ricardo30
  89. Samuel Finley Breese Morse11
  90. Niels Henrik Abelborn
  91. Isabelle de Charrière62
  92. Pius VII60
  93. William IV37
  94. Friedrich Hölderlin32
  95. Amedeo Avogadro26
  96. Klemens von Metternich29
  97. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord48
  98. Jacques-Louis David54
  99. George IV of the United Kingdom40
  100. François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand34
  101. Joseph Priestley69
  102. James Fenimore Cooper13
  103. Leo XII42
  104. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling27
  105. E. T. A. Hoffmann26
  106. Wilhelm I5
  107. Thomas Young29
  108. Caspar David Friedrich28
  109. Henry Cavendish71
  110. Germaine de Staël36