Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1804?

117 of the people we track were surely alive in 1804. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1804: Franklin Pierce, Benjamin Disraeli, George Sand, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Ludwig Feuerbach.

Died in 1804: Immanuel Kant, Alexander Hamilton and Joseph Priestley.

  1. Napoleon35
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe55
  3. Ludwig van Beethoven32–36
  4. Victor Hugo2
  5. Immanuel Kant79 †
  6. Alexander Pushkin5
  7. Thomas Jefferson61
  8. Lord Byron16
  9. Jane Austen29
  10. Carl Friedrich Gauss27
  11. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel34
  12. John Adams69
  13. Francisco Goya58
  14. Friedrich Schiller45
  15. Michael Faraday13
  16. Katsushika Hokusai44
  17. James Madison53
  18. Honoré de Balzac5
  19. Simón Bolívar21
  20. Arthur Schopenhauer16
  21. Alexandre Dumas2
  22. Franz Schubert7
  23. Heinrich Heine7
  24. John Quincy Adams37
  25. Andrew Jackson37
  26. William Blake47
  27. James Watt68
  28. Joseph Haydn72
  29. James Monroe46
  30. Ralph Waldo Emerson1
  31. Martin Van Buren22
  32. Zachary Taylor20
  33. James Buchanan13
  34. John Keats9
  35. James K. Polk9
  36. John Tyler14
  37. Percy Bysshe Shelley12
  38. Alexander von Humboldt35
  39. William Wordsworth34
  40. Millard Fillmore4
  41. William Henry Harrison31
  42. Walter Scott33
  43. Franklin Pierceborn
  44. Benjamin Disraeliborn
  45. Stendhal21
  46. George Sandborn
  47. Thomas Paine67
  48. Hector Berlioz1
  49. Joseph Fourier36
  50. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres24
  51. Mary Shelley7
  52. Auguste Comte6
  53. Adam Mickiewicz6
  54. Pierre-Simon Laplace55
  55. Samuel Taylor Coleridge32
  56. Eugène Delacroix6
  57. André-Marie Ampère29
  58. Thomas Carlyle9
  59. Alessandro Volta59
  60. Nathaniel Hawthorneborn
  61. William Herschel66
  62. Edward Jenner55
  63. Johann Gottlieb Fichte42
  64. Charles Babbage13
  65. John Dalton38
  66. Giacomo Leopardi6
  67. Alexander I of Russia27
  68. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck60
  69. Ludwig Feuerbachborn
  70. Washington Irving21
  71. Alphonse de Lamartine14
  72. Pius IX12
  73. George III of Great Britain66
  74. Carl von Clausewitz24
  75. Alessandro Manzoni19
  76. Gioachino Rossini12
  77. Marquis de Sade64
  78. Jeremy Bentham56
  79. Thomas Robert Malthus38
  80. Nicholas I of Russia8
  81. Horatio Nelson46
  82. Joseph-Louis Lagrange68
  83. Alexander Hamilton47 †
  84. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington35
  85. Niccolò Paganini22
  86. Georg Simon Ohm15
  87. Humphry Davy26
  88. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb68
  89. Shaka Zulu15–19
  90. Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky12
  91. Hans Christian Ørsted27
  92. Gregory XVI39
  93. Wilhelm von Humboldt37
  94. David Ricardo32
  95. Samuel Finley Breese Morse13
  96. Niels Henrik Abel2
  97. Isabelle de Charrière64
  98. Pius VII62
  99. William IV39
  100. Friedrich Hölderlin34
  101. Amedeo Avogadro28
  102. Prosper Mérimée1
  103. Klemens von Metternich31
  104. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord50
  105. Jacques-Louis David56
  106. George IV of the United Kingdom42
  107. François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand36
  108. Joseph Priestley70 †
  109. James Fenimore Cooper15
  110. Leo XII44
  111. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling29
  112. E. T. A. Hoffmann28
  113. Wilhelm I7
  114. Thomas Young31
  115. Caspar David Friedrich30
  116. Henry Cavendish73
  117. Germaine de Staël38