Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1812?

138 of the people we track were surely alive in 1812. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1812: Charles Dickens and Robert Browning.

  1. Abraham Lincoln3
  2. Napoleon43
  3. Charles Darwin3
  4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe63
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven40–44
  6. Victor Hugo10
  7. Charles Dickensborn
  8. Alexander Pushkin13
  9. Hans Christian Andersen7
  10. Thomas Jefferson69
  11. Edgar Allan Poe3
  12. Lord Byron24
  13. Jane Austen37
  14. Carl Friedrich Gauss35
  15. Frédéric Chopin2
  16. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel42
  17. John Adams77
  18. Francisco Goya66
  19. Michael Faraday21
  20. Katsushika Hokusai52
  21. James Madison61
  22. Honoré de Balzac13
  23. Simón Bolívar29
  24. Arthur Schopenhauer24
  25. Alexandre Dumas10
  26. Franz Schubert15
  27. Heinrich Heine15
  28. John Quincy Adams45
  29. Andrew Jackson45
  30. William Blake55
  31. James Watt76
  32. James Monroe54
  33. Nikolai Gogol3
  34. Ralph Waldo Emerson9
  35. John Stuart Mill6
  36. Martin Van Buren30
  37. Andrew Johnson4
  38. Zachary Taylor28
  39. James Buchanan21
  40. John Keats17
  41. James K. Polk17
  42. John Tyler22
  43. Percy Bysshe Shelley20
  44. Alexander von Humboldt43
  45. William Wordsworth42
  46. Millard Fillmore12
  47. William Henry Harrison39
  48. Walter Scott41
  49. Franklin Pierce8
  50. Benjamin Disraeli8
  51. Stendhal29
  52. George Sand8
  53. Hector Berlioz9
  54. Joseph Fourier44
  55. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres32
  56. Mary Shelley15
  57. Auguste Comte14
  58. Giuseppe Garibaldi5
  59. Robert Schumann2
  60. Adam Mickiewicz14
  61. Napoleon III4
  62. Pierre-Simon Laplace63
  63. Franz Liszt1
  64. Felix Mendelssohn3
  65. Samuel Taylor Coleridge40
  66. Eugène Delacroix14
  67. André-Marie Ampère37
  68. Thomas Carlyle17
  69. Alfred Tennyson3
  70. Harriet Beecher Stowe1
  71. Alessandro Volta67
  72. Nathaniel Hawthorne8
  73. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow5
  74. Alexis de Tocqueville7
  75. Leo XIII2
  76. William Herschel74
  77. Edward Jenner63
  78. Johann Gottlieb Fichte50
  79. Charles Babbage21
  80. John Dalton46
  81. Giacomo Leopardi14
  82. Alexander I of Russia35
  83. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck68
  84. Ludwig Feuerbach8
  85. Washington Irving29
  86. Alphonse de Lamartine22
  87. Pius IX20
  88. George III of Great Britain74
  89. Carl von Clausewitz32
  90. Alessandro Manzoni27
  91. Gioachino Rossini20
  92. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon3
  93. Joseph Smith7
  94. Marquis de Sade72
  95. Jeremy Bentham64
  96. Thomas Robert Malthus46
  97. Nicholas I of Russia16
  98. Joseph-Louis Lagrange76
  99. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington43
  100. Niccolò Paganini30
  101. Georg Simon Ohm23
  102. Robert E. Lee5
  103. Humphry Davy34
  104. Alfred de Musset2
  105. Shaka Zulu23–27
  106. Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky20
  107. William Ewart Gladstone3
  108. Hans Christian Ørsted35
  109. Giuseppe Mazzini7
  110. Gregory XVI47
  111. Wilhelm von Humboldt45
  112. David Ricardo40
  113. Samuel Finley Breese Morse21
  114. Niels Henrik Abel10
  115. William Makepeace Thackeray1
  116. Évariste Galois1
  117. Robert Browningborn
  118. Pius VII70
  119. William IV47
  120. Friedrich Hölderlin42

The 120 best known of 138 are listed.