Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1816?

146 of the people we track were surely alive in 1816. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1816: Charlotte Brontë.

  1. Abraham Lincoln7
  2. Napoleon47
  3. Charles Darwin7
  4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe67
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven44–48
  6. Victor Hugo14
  7. Charles Dickens4
  8. Alexander Pushkin17
  9. Hans Christian Andersen11
  10. Thomas Jefferson73
  11. Edgar Allan Poe7
  12. Lord Byron28
  13. Otto von Bismarck1
  14. Richard Wagner3
  15. Jane Austen41
  16. Carl Friedrich Gauss39
  17. Frédéric Chopin6
  18. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel46
  19. John Adams81
  20. Francisco Goya70
  21. Michael Faraday25
  22. Giuseppe Verdi3
  23. Katsushika Hokusai56
  24. James Madison65
  25. Honoré de Balzac17
  26. Simón Bolívar33
  27. Arthur Schopenhauer28
  28. Alexandre Dumas14
  29. Franz Schubert19
  30. Søren Kierkegaard3
  31. Heinrich Heine19
  32. John Quincy Adams49
  33. Andrew Jackson49
  34. William Blake59
  35. James Watt80
  36. James Monroe58
  37. Nikolai Gogol7
  38. Ralph Waldo Emerson13
  39. John Stuart Mill10
  40. Martin Van Buren34
  41. Andrew Johnson8
  42. Zachary Taylor32
  43. James Buchanan25
  44. John Keats21
  45. James K. Polk21
  46. John Tyler26
  47. Percy Bysshe Shelley24
  48. Mikhail Bakunin2
  49. Alexander von Humboldt47
  50. William Wordsworth46
  51. Millard Fillmore16
  52. William Henry Harrison43
  53. Walter Scott45
  54. Franklin Pierce12
  55. Benjamin Disraeli12
  56. Taras Shevchenko2
  57. Stendhal33
  58. George Sand12
  59. Hector Berlioz13
  60. Charlotte Brontëborn
  61. Joseph Fourier48
  62. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres36
  63. Mary Shelley19
  64. Auguste Comte18
  65. Ada Lovelace1
  66. Giuseppe Garibaldi9
  67. Robert Schumann6
  68. Adam Mickiewicz18
  69. Napoleon III8
  70. Mikhail Lermontov2
  71. Pierre-Simon Laplace67
  72. Franz Liszt5
  73. Felix Mendelssohn7
  74. Samuel Taylor Coleridge44
  75. Eugène Delacroix18
  76. André-Marie Ampère41
  77. Thomas Carlyle21
  78. Alfred Tennyson7
  79. Harriet Beecher Stowe5
  80. Alessandro Volta71
  81. Nathaniel Hawthorne12
  82. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow9
  83. Alexis de Tocqueville11
  84. Leo XIII6
  85. William Herschel78
  86. Edward Jenner67
  87. Charles Babbage25
  88. John Dalton50
  89. Giacomo Leopardi18
  90. Alexander I of Russia39
  91. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck72
  92. Ludwig Feuerbach12
  93. Washington Irving33
  94. Alphonse de Lamartine26
  95. Pius IX24
  96. George III of Great Britain78
  97. Carl von Clausewitz36
  98. Alessandro Manzoni31
  99. Gioachino Rossini24
  100. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon7
  101. Joseph Smith11
  102. Jeremy Bentham68
  103. Thomas Robert Malthus50
  104. Nicholas I of Russia20
  105. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington47
  106. Niccolò Paganini34
  107. Georg Simon Ohm27
  108. Robert E. Lee9
  109. Humphry Davy38
  110. Alfred de Musset6
  111. David Livingstone3
  112. Shaka Zulu27–31
  113. Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky24
  114. William Ewart Gladstone7
  115. Hans Christian Ørsted39
  116. Giuseppe Mazzini11
  117. Gregory XVI51
  118. Wilhelm von Humboldt49
  119. David Ricardo44
  120. Samuel Finley Breese Morse25

The 120 best known of 146 are listed.