Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1825?

169 of the people we track were surely alive in 1825. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1825: Thomas Henry Huxley and William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin.

Died in 1825: Alexander I of Russia and Jacques-Louis David.

  1. Karl Marx7
  2. Abraham Lincoln16
  3. Charles Darwin16
  4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe76
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven53–57
  6. Victor Hugo23
  7. Fyodor Dostoyevsky4
  8. Charles Dickens13
  9. Alexander Pushkin26
  10. Hans Christian Andersen20
  11. Thomas Jefferson82
  12. Edgar Allan Poe16
  13. Otto von Bismarck10
  14. Louis Pasteur3
  15. Richard Wagner12
  16. Carl Friedrich Gauss48
  17. Frédéric Chopin15
  18. Friedrich Engels5
  19. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel55
  20. John Adams90
  21. Francisco Goya79
  22. Michael Faraday34
  23. Giuseppe Verdi12
  24. Charles Baudelaire4
  25. Katsushika Hokusai65
  26. James Madison74
  27. Honoré de Balzac26
  28. Simón Bolívar42
  29. Arthur Schopenhauer37
  30. Victoria6
  31. Alexandre Dumas23
  32. Franz Schubert28
  33. Søren Kierkegaard12
  34. Heinrich Heine28
  35. John Quincy Adams58
  36. Andrew Jackson58
  37. William Blake68
  38. Gustave Flaubert4
  39. Ulysses S. Grant3
  40. James Monroe67
  41. Nikolai Gogol16
  42. Ralph Waldo Emerson22
  43. Ivan Turgenev7
  44. John Stuart Mill19
  45. Florence Nightingale5
  46. Walt Whitman6
  47. Martin Van Buren43
  48. Andrew Johnson17
  49. Henry David Thoreau8
  50. Zachary Taylor41
  51. James Buchanan34
  52. James K. Polk30
  53. John Tyler35
  54. Mikhail Bakunin11
  55. Alexander von Humboldt56
  56. William Wordsworth55
  57. Millard Fillmore25
  58. William Henry Harrison52
  59. Walter Scott54
  60. Franklin Pierce21
  61. Rutherford B. Hayes3
  62. Benjamin Disraeli21
  63. Taras Shevchenko11
  64. George Eliot6
  65. Stendhal42
  66. George Sand21
  67. Hector Berlioz22
  68. Charlotte Brontë9
  69. James Prescott Joule7
  70. Gregor Mendel3
  71. Joseph Fourier57
  72. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres45
  73. Mary Shelley28
  74. Auguste Comte27
  75. Ada Lovelace10
  76. Giuseppe Garibaldi18
  77. Robert Schumann15
  78. Emily Brontë7
  79. Herman Melville6
  80. Adam Mickiewicz27
  81. Napoleon III17
  82. Mikhail Lermontov11
  83. Pierre-Simon Laplace76
  84. Franz Liszt14
  85. Theodor Mommsen8
  86. Felix Mendelssohn16
  87. Samuel Taylor Coleridge53
  88. Eugène Delacroix27
  89. André-Marie Ampère50
  90. Herbert Spencer5
  91. Thomas Carlyle30
  92. Alfred Tennyson16
  93. Harriet Beecher Stowe14
  94. Alessandro Volta80
  95. Nathaniel Hawthorne21
  96. John Ruskin6
  97. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow18
  98. Alexis de Tocqueville20
  99. Leo XIII15
  100. Charles Babbage34
  101. John Dalton59
  102. Giacomo Leopardi27
  103. Alexander I of Russia47 †
  104. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck81
  105. Ludwig Feuerbach21
  106. Thomas Henry Huxleyborn
  107. Washington Irving42
  108. Alphonse de Lamartine35
  109. Pius IX33
  110. Carl von Clausewitz45
  111. Alessandro Manzoni40
  112. Gioachino Rossini33
  113. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon16
  114. Joseph Smith20
  115. Alfred Russel Wallace2
  116. Alexandre Dumas fils1
  117. Jeremy Bentham77
  118. Thomas Robert Malthus59
  119. Nicholas I of Russia29
  120. Harriet Tubman1–8

The 120 best known of 169 are listed.