Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1818?

153 of the people we track were surely alive in 1818. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1818: Karl Marx, Ivan Turgenev, James Prescott Joule, Emily Brontë, Alexander II of Russia and Frederick Douglass.

  1. Karl Marxborn
  2. Abraham Lincoln9
  3. Napoleon49
  4. Charles Darwin9
  5. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe69
  6. Ludwig van Beethoven46–50
  7. Victor Hugo16
  8. Charles Dickens6
  9. Alexander Pushkin19
  10. Hans Christian Andersen13
  11. Thomas Jefferson75
  12. Edgar Allan Poe9
  13. Lord Byron30
  14. Otto von Bismarck3
  15. Richard Wagner5
  16. Carl Friedrich Gauss41
  17. Frédéric Chopin8
  18. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel48
  19. John Adams83
  20. Francisco Goya72
  21. Michael Faraday27
  22. Giuseppe Verdi5
  23. Katsushika Hokusai58
  24. James Madison67
  25. Honoré de Balzac19
  26. Simón Bolívar35
  27. Arthur Schopenhauer30
  28. Alexandre Dumas16
  29. Franz Schubert21
  30. Søren Kierkegaard5
  31. Heinrich Heine21
  32. John Quincy Adams51
  33. Andrew Jackson51
  34. William Blake61
  35. James Watt82
  36. James Monroe60
  37. Nikolai Gogol9
  38. Ralph Waldo Emerson15
  39. Ivan Turgenevborn
  40. John Stuart Mill12
  41. Martin Van Buren36
  42. Andrew Johnson10
  43. Henry David Thoreau1
  44. Zachary Taylor34
  45. James Buchanan27
  46. John Keats23
  47. James K. Polk23
  48. John Tyler28
  49. Percy Bysshe Shelley26
  50. Mikhail Bakunin4
  51. Alexander von Humboldt49
  52. William Wordsworth48
  53. Millard Fillmore18
  54. William Henry Harrison45
  55. Walter Scott47
  56. Franklin Pierce14
  57. Benjamin Disraeli14
  58. Taras Shevchenko4
  59. Stendhal35
  60. George Sand14
  61. Hector Berlioz15
  62. Charlotte Brontë2
  63. James Prescott Jouleborn
  64. Joseph Fourier50
  65. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres38
  66. Mary Shelley21
  67. Auguste Comte20
  68. Ada Lovelace3
  69. Giuseppe Garibaldi11
  70. Robert Schumann8
  71. Emily Brontëborn
  72. Adam Mickiewicz20
  73. Napoleon III10
  74. Mikhail Lermontov4
  75. Pierre-Simon Laplace69
  76. Franz Liszt7
  77. Theodor Mommsen1
  78. Felix Mendelssohn9
  79. Samuel Taylor Coleridge46
  80. Eugène Delacroix20
  81. André-Marie Ampère43
  82. Thomas Carlyle23
  83. Alfred Tennyson9
  84. Harriet Beecher Stowe7
  85. Alessandro Volta73
  86. Nathaniel Hawthorne14
  87. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow11
  88. Alexis de Tocqueville13
  89. Leo XIII8
  90. William Herschel80
  91. Edward Jenner69
  92. Charles Babbage27
  93. John Dalton52
  94. Giacomo Leopardi20
  95. Alexander I of Russia41
  96. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck74
  97. Ludwig Feuerbach14
  98. Washington Irving35
  99. Alphonse de Lamartine28
  100. Pius IX26
  101. George III of Great Britain80
  102. Carl von Clausewitz38
  103. Alessandro Manzoni33
  104. Gioachino Rossini26
  105. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon9
  106. Joseph Smith13
  107. Jeremy Bentham70
  108. Thomas Robert Malthus52
  109. Nicholas I of Russia22
  110. Alexander II of Russiaborn
  111. Baháʼu'lláh1
  112. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington49
  113. Niccolò Paganini36
  114. Georg Simon Ohm29
  115. Robert E. Lee11
  116. Humphry Davy40
  117. Alfred de Musset8
  118. David Livingstone5
  119. Shaka Zulu29–33
  120. Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky26

The 120 best known of 153 are listed.