Who was alive in 1822?
167 of the people we track were surely alive in 1822. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.
Born in 1822: Louis Pasteur, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes and Gregor Mendel.
Died in 1822: Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Herschel and E. T. A. Hoffmann.
- Karl Marx4
- Abraham Lincoln13
- Charles Darwin13
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe73
- Ludwig van Beethoven50–54
- Victor Hugo20
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky1
- Charles Dickens10
- Alexander Pushkin23
- Hans Christian Andersen17
- Thomas Jefferson79
- Edgar Allan Poe13
- Lord Byron34
- Otto von Bismarck7
- Louis Pasteurborn
- Richard Wagner9
- Carl Friedrich Gauss45
- Frédéric Chopin12
- Friedrich Engels2
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel52
- John Adams87
- Francisco Goya76
- Michael Faraday31
- Giuseppe Verdi9
- Charles Baudelaire1
- Katsushika Hokusai62
- James Madison71
- Honoré de Balzac23
- Simón Bolívar39
- Arthur Schopenhauer34
- Victoria3
- Alexandre Dumas20
- Franz Schubert25
- Søren Kierkegaard9
- Heinrich Heine25
- John Quincy Adams55
- Andrew Jackson55
- William Blake65
- Gustave Flaubert1
- Ulysses S. Grantborn
- James Monroe64
- Nikolai Gogol13
- Ralph Waldo Emerson19
- Ivan Turgenev4
- John Stuart Mill16
- Florence Nightingale2
- Walt Whitman3
- Martin Van Buren40
- Andrew Johnson14
- Henry David Thoreau5
- Zachary Taylor38
- James Buchanan31
- James K. Polk27
- John Tyler32
- Percy Bysshe Shelley29 †
- Mikhail Bakunin8
- Alexander von Humboldt53
- William Wordsworth52
- Millard Fillmore22
- William Henry Harrison49
- Walter Scott51
- Franklin Pierce18
- Rutherford B. Hayesborn
- Benjamin Disraeli18
- Taras Shevchenko8
- George Eliot3
- Stendhal39
- George Sand18
- Hector Berlioz19
- Charlotte Brontë6
- James Prescott Joule4
- Gregor Mendelborn
- Joseph Fourier54
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres42
- Mary Shelley25
- Auguste Comte24
- Ada Lovelace7
- Giuseppe Garibaldi15
- Robert Schumann12
- Emily Brontë4
- Herman Melville3
- Adam Mickiewicz24
- Napoleon III14
- Mikhail Lermontov8
- Pierre-Simon Laplace73
- Franz Liszt11
- Theodor Mommsen5
- Felix Mendelssohn13
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge50
- Eugène Delacroix24
- André-Marie Ampère47
- Herbert Spencer2
- Thomas Carlyle27
- Alfred Tennyson13
- Harriet Beecher Stowe11
- Alessandro Volta77
- Nathaniel Hawthorne18
- John Ruskin3
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow15
- Alexis de Tocqueville17
- Leo XIII12
- William Herschel83 †
- Edward Jenner73
- Charles Babbage31
- John Dalton56
- Giacomo Leopardi24
- Alexander I of Russia45
- Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck78
- Ludwig Feuerbach18
- Washington Irving39
- Alphonse de Lamartine32
- Pius IX30
- Carl von Clausewitz42
- Alessandro Manzoni37
- Gioachino Rossini30
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon13
- Joseph Smith17
- Jeremy Bentham74
- Thomas Robert Malthus56
- Nicholas I of Russia26
The 120 best known of 167 are listed.