Who was alive in 1811?
136 of the people we track were surely alive in 1811. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.
Born in 1811: Franz Liszt, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Makepeace Thackeray and Évariste Galois.
- Abraham Lincoln2
- Napoleon42
- Charles Darwin2
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe62
- Ludwig van Beethoven39–43
- Victor Hugo9
- Alexander Pushkin12
- Hans Christian Andersen6
- Thomas Jefferson68
- Edgar Allan Poe2
- Lord Byron23
- Jane Austen36
- Carl Friedrich Gauss34
- Frédéric Chopin1
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel41
- John Adams76
- Francisco Goya65
- Michael Faraday20
- Katsushika Hokusai51
- James Madison60
- Honoré de Balzac12
- Simón Bolívar28
- Arthur Schopenhauer23
- Alexandre Dumas9
- Franz Schubert14
- Heinrich Heine14
- John Quincy Adams44
- Andrew Jackson44
- William Blake54
- James Watt75
- James Monroe53
- Nikolai Gogol2
- Ralph Waldo Emerson8
- John Stuart Mill5
- Martin Van Buren29
- Andrew Johnson3
- Zachary Taylor27
- James Buchanan20
- John Keats16
- James K. Polk16
- John Tyler21
- Percy Bysshe Shelley19
- Alexander von Humboldt42
- William Wordsworth41
- Millard Fillmore11
- William Henry Harrison38
- Walter Scott40
- Franklin Pierce7
- Benjamin Disraeli7
- Stendhal28
- George Sand7
- Hector Berlioz8
- Joseph Fourier43
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres31
- Mary Shelley14
- Auguste Comte13
- Giuseppe Garibaldi4
- Robert Schumann1
- Adam Mickiewicz13
- Napoleon III3
- Pierre-Simon Laplace62
- Franz Lisztborn
- Felix Mendelssohn2
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge39
- Eugène Delacroix13
- André-Marie Ampère36
- Thomas Carlyle16
- Alfred Tennyson2
- Harriet Beecher Stoweborn
- Alessandro Volta66
- Nathaniel Hawthorne7
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow4
- Alexis de Tocqueville6
- Leo XIII1
- William Herschel73
- Edward Jenner62
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte49
- Charles Babbage20
- John Dalton45
- Giacomo Leopardi13
- Alexander I of Russia34
- Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck67
- Ludwig Feuerbach7
- Washington Irving28
- Alphonse de Lamartine21
- Pius IX19
- George III of Great Britain73
- Carl von Clausewitz31
- Alessandro Manzoni26
- Gioachino Rossini19
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon2
- Joseph Smith6
- Marquis de Sade71
- Jeremy Bentham63
- Thomas Robert Malthus45
- Nicholas I of Russia15
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange75
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington42
- Niccolò Paganini29
- Georg Simon Ohm22
- Robert E. Lee4
- Humphry Davy33
- Alfred de Musset1
- Shaka Zulu22–26
- Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky19
- William Ewart Gladstone2
- Hans Christian Ørsted34
- Giuseppe Mazzini6
- Gregory XVI46
- Wilhelm von Humboldt44
- David Ricardo39
- Samuel Finley Breese Morse20
- Niels Henrik Abel9
- William Makepeace Thackerayborn
- Évariste Galoisborn
- Pius VII69
- William IV46
- Friedrich Hölderlin41
- Amedeo Avogadro35
- Prosper Mérimée8
The 120 best known of 136 are listed.