Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1821?

165 of the people we track were surely alive in 1821. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1821: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Charles Baudelaire and Gustave Flaubert.

Died in 1821: Napoleon and John Keats.

  1. Karl Marx3
  2. Abraham Lincoln12
  3. Napoleon51 †
  4. Charles Darwin12
  5. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe72
  6. Ludwig van Beethoven49–53
  7. Victor Hugo19
  8. Fyodor Dostoyevskyborn
  9. Charles Dickens9
  10. Alexander Pushkin22
  11. Hans Christian Andersen16
  12. Thomas Jefferson78
  13. Edgar Allan Poe12
  14. Lord Byron33
  15. Otto von Bismarck6
  16. Richard Wagner8
  17. Carl Friedrich Gauss44
  18. Frédéric Chopin11
  19. Friedrich Engels1
  20. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel51
  21. John Adams86
  22. Francisco Goya75
  23. Michael Faraday30
  24. Giuseppe Verdi8
  25. Charles Baudelaireborn
  26. Katsushika Hokusai61
  27. James Madison70
  28. Honoré de Balzac22
  29. Simón Bolívar38
  30. Arthur Schopenhauer33
  31. Victoria2
  32. Alexandre Dumas19
  33. Franz Schubert24
  34. Søren Kierkegaard8
  35. Heinrich Heine24
  36. John Quincy Adams54
  37. Andrew Jackson54
  38. William Blake64
  39. Gustave Flaubertborn
  40. James Monroe63
  41. Nikolai Gogol12
  42. Ralph Waldo Emerson18
  43. Ivan Turgenev3
  44. John Stuart Mill15
  45. Florence Nightingale1
  46. Walt Whitman2
  47. Martin Van Buren39
  48. Andrew Johnson13
  49. Henry David Thoreau4
  50. Zachary Taylor37
  51. James Buchanan30
  52. John Keats25 †
  53. James K. Polk26
  54. John Tyler31
  55. Percy Bysshe Shelley29
  56. Mikhail Bakunin7
  57. Alexander von Humboldt52
  58. William Wordsworth51
  59. Millard Fillmore21
  60. William Henry Harrison48
  61. Walter Scott50
  62. Franklin Pierce17
  63. Benjamin Disraeli17
  64. Taras Shevchenko7
  65. George Eliot2
  66. Stendhal38
  67. George Sand17
  68. Hector Berlioz18
  69. Charlotte Brontë5
  70. James Prescott Joule3
  71. Joseph Fourier53
  72. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres41
  73. Mary Shelley24
  74. Auguste Comte23
  75. Ada Lovelace6
  76. Giuseppe Garibaldi14
  77. Robert Schumann11
  78. Emily Brontë3
  79. Herman Melville2
  80. Adam Mickiewicz23
  81. Napoleon III13
  82. Mikhail Lermontov7
  83. Pierre-Simon Laplace72
  84. Franz Liszt10
  85. Theodor Mommsen4
  86. Felix Mendelssohn12
  87. Samuel Taylor Coleridge49
  88. Eugène Delacroix23
  89. André-Marie Ampère46
  90. Herbert Spencer1
  91. Thomas Carlyle26
  92. Alfred Tennyson12
  93. Harriet Beecher Stowe10
  94. Alessandro Volta76
  95. Nathaniel Hawthorne17
  96. John Ruskin2
  97. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow14
  98. Alexis de Tocqueville16
  99. Leo XIII11
  100. William Herschel83
  101. Edward Jenner72
  102. Charles Babbage30
  103. John Dalton55
  104. Giacomo Leopardi23
  105. Alexander I of Russia44
  106. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck77
  107. Ludwig Feuerbach17
  108. Washington Irving38
  109. Alphonse de Lamartine31
  110. Pius IX29
  111. Carl von Clausewitz41
  112. Alessandro Manzoni36
  113. Gioachino Rossini29
  114. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon12
  115. Joseph Smith16
  116. Jeremy Bentham73
  117. Thomas Robert Malthus55
  118. Nicholas I of Russia25
  119. Alexander II of Russia3
  120. Anne Brontë1

The 120 best known of 165 are listed.