Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1814?

144 of the people we track were surely alive in 1814. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1814: Mikhail Bakunin, Taras Shevchenko and Mikhail Lermontov.

Died in 1814: Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Marquis de Sade.

  1. Abraham Lincoln5
  2. Napoleon45
  3. Charles Darwin5
  4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe65
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven42–46
  6. Victor Hugo12
  7. Charles Dickens2
  8. Alexander Pushkin15
  9. Hans Christian Andersen9
  10. Thomas Jefferson71
  11. Edgar Allan Poe5
  12. Lord Byron26
  13. Richard Wagner1
  14. Jane Austen39
  15. Carl Friedrich Gauss37
  16. Frédéric Chopin4
  17. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel44
  18. John Adams79
  19. Francisco Goya68
  20. Michael Faraday23
  21. Giuseppe Verdi1
  22. Katsushika Hokusai54
  23. James Madison63
  24. Honoré de Balzac15
  25. Simón Bolívar31
  26. Arthur Schopenhauer26
  27. Alexandre Dumas12
  28. Franz Schubert17
  29. Søren Kierkegaard1
  30. Heinrich Heine17
  31. John Quincy Adams47
  32. Andrew Jackson47
  33. William Blake57
  34. James Watt78
  35. James Monroe56
  36. Nikolai Gogol5
  37. Ralph Waldo Emerson11
  38. John Stuart Mill8
  39. Martin Van Buren32
  40. Andrew Johnson6
  41. Zachary Taylor30
  42. James Buchanan23
  43. John Keats19
  44. James K. Polk19
  45. John Tyler24
  46. Percy Bysshe Shelley22
  47. Mikhail Bakuninborn
  48. Alexander von Humboldt45
  49. William Wordsworth44
  50. Millard Fillmore14
  51. William Henry Harrison41
  52. Walter Scott43
  53. Franklin Pierce10
  54. Benjamin Disraeli10
  55. Taras Shevchenkoborn
  56. Stendhal31
  57. George Sand10
  58. Hector Berlioz11
  59. Joseph Fourier46
  60. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres34
  61. Mary Shelley17
  62. Auguste Comte16
  63. Giuseppe Garibaldi7
  64. Robert Schumann4
  65. Adam Mickiewicz16
  66. Napoleon III6
  67. Mikhail Lermontovborn
  68. Pierre-Simon Laplace65
  69. Franz Liszt3
  70. Felix Mendelssohn5
  71. Samuel Taylor Coleridge42
  72. Eugène Delacroix16
  73. André-Marie Ampère39
  74. Thomas Carlyle19
  75. Alfred Tennyson5
  76. Harriet Beecher Stowe3
  77. Alessandro Volta69
  78. Nathaniel Hawthorne10
  79. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow7
  80. Alexis de Tocqueville9
  81. Leo XIII4
  82. William Herschel76
  83. Edward Jenner65
  84. Johann Gottlieb Fichte51 †
  85. Charles Babbage23
  86. John Dalton48
  87. Giacomo Leopardi16
  88. Alexander I of Russia37
  89. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck70
  90. Ludwig Feuerbach10
  91. Washington Irving31
  92. Alphonse de Lamartine24
  93. Pius IX22
  94. George III of Great Britain76
  95. Carl von Clausewitz34
  96. Alessandro Manzoni29
  97. Gioachino Rossini22
  98. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon5
  99. Joseph Smith9
  100. Marquis de Sade74 †
  101. Jeremy Bentham66
  102. Thomas Robert Malthus48
  103. Nicholas I of Russia18
  104. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington45
  105. Niccolò Paganini32
  106. Georg Simon Ohm25
  107. Robert E. Lee7
  108. Humphry Davy36
  109. Alfred de Musset4
  110. David Livingstone1
  111. Shaka Zulu25–29
  112. Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky22
  113. William Ewart Gladstone5
  114. Hans Christian Ørsted37
  115. Giuseppe Mazzini9
  116. Gregory XVI49
  117. Wilhelm von Humboldt47
  118. David Ricardo42
  119. Samuel Finley Breese Morse23
  120. Niels Henrik Abel12

The 120 best known of 144 are listed.