Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1817?

149 of the people we track were surely alive in 1817. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1817: Henry David Thoreau, Theodor Mommsen and Baháʼu'lláh.

Died in 1817: Jane Austen and Germaine de Staël.

  1. Abraham Lincoln8
  2. Napoleon48
  3. Charles Darwin8
  4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe68
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven45–49
  6. Victor Hugo15
  7. Charles Dickens5
  8. Alexander Pushkin18
  9. Hans Christian Andersen12
  10. Thomas Jefferson74
  11. Edgar Allan Poe8
  12. Lord Byron29
  13. Otto von Bismarck2
  14. Richard Wagner4
  15. Jane Austen41 †
  16. Carl Friedrich Gauss40
  17. Frédéric Chopin7
  18. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel47
  19. John Adams82
  20. Francisco Goya71
  21. Michael Faraday26
  22. Giuseppe Verdi4
  23. Katsushika Hokusai57
  24. James Madison66
  25. Honoré de Balzac18
  26. Simón Bolívar34
  27. Arthur Schopenhauer29
  28. Alexandre Dumas15
  29. Franz Schubert20
  30. Søren Kierkegaard4
  31. Heinrich Heine20
  32. John Quincy Adams50
  33. Andrew Jackson50
  34. William Blake60
  35. James Watt81
  36. James Monroe59
  37. Nikolai Gogol8
  38. Ralph Waldo Emerson14
  39. John Stuart Mill11
  40. Martin Van Buren35
  41. Andrew Johnson9
  42. Henry David Thoreauborn
  43. Zachary Taylor33
  44. James Buchanan26
  45. John Keats22
  46. James K. Polk22
  47. John Tyler27
  48. Percy Bysshe Shelley25
  49. Mikhail Bakunin3
  50. Alexander von Humboldt48
  51. William Wordsworth47
  52. Millard Fillmore17
  53. William Henry Harrison44
  54. Walter Scott46
  55. Franklin Pierce13
  56. Benjamin Disraeli13
  57. Taras Shevchenko3
  58. Stendhal34
  59. George Sand13
  60. Hector Berlioz14
  61. Charlotte Brontë1
  62. Joseph Fourier49
  63. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres37
  64. Mary Shelley20
  65. Auguste Comte19
  66. Ada Lovelace2
  67. Giuseppe Garibaldi10
  68. Robert Schumann7
  69. Adam Mickiewicz19
  70. Napoleon III9
  71. Mikhail Lermontov3
  72. Pierre-Simon Laplace68
  73. Franz Liszt6
  74. Theodor Mommsenborn
  75. Felix Mendelssohn8
  76. Samuel Taylor Coleridge45
  77. Eugène Delacroix19
  78. André-Marie Ampère42
  79. Thomas Carlyle22
  80. Alfred Tennyson8
  81. Harriet Beecher Stowe6
  82. Alessandro Volta72
  83. Nathaniel Hawthorne13
  84. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow10
  85. Alexis de Tocqueville12
  86. Leo XIII7
  87. William Herschel79
  88. Edward Jenner68
  89. Charles Babbage26
  90. John Dalton51
  91. Giacomo Leopardi19
  92. Alexander I of Russia40
  93. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck73
  94. Ludwig Feuerbach13
  95. Washington Irving34
  96. Alphonse de Lamartine27
  97. Pius IX25
  98. George III of Great Britain79
  99. Carl von Clausewitz37
  100. Alessandro Manzoni32
  101. Gioachino Rossini25
  102. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon8
  103. Joseph Smith12
  104. Jeremy Bentham69
  105. Thomas Robert Malthus51
  106. Nicholas I of Russia21
  107. Baháʼu'lláhborn
  108. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington48
  109. Niccolò Paganini35
  110. Georg Simon Ohm28
  111. Robert E. Lee10
  112. Humphry Davy39
  113. Alfred de Musset7
  114. David Livingstone4
  115. Shaka Zulu28–32
  116. Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky25
  117. William Ewart Gladstone8
  118. Hans Christian Ørsted40
  119. Giuseppe Mazzini12
  120. Gregory XVI52

The 120 best known of 149 are listed.