Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1826?

168 of the people we track were surely alive in 1826. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1826: Bernhard Riemann.

Died in 1826: Thomas Jefferson and John Adams.

  1. Karl Marx8
  2. Abraham Lincoln17
  3. Charles Darwin17
  4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe77
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven54–58
  6. Victor Hugo24
  7. Fyodor Dostoyevsky5
  8. Charles Dickens14
  9. Alexander Pushkin27
  10. Hans Christian Andersen21
  11. Thomas Jefferson83 †
  12. Edgar Allan Poe17
  13. Otto von Bismarck11
  14. Louis Pasteur4
  15. Richard Wagner13
  16. Carl Friedrich Gauss49
  17. Frédéric Chopin16
  18. Friedrich Engels6
  19. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel56
  20. John Adams90 †
  21. Francisco Goya80
  22. Michael Faraday35
  23. Giuseppe Verdi13
  24. Charles Baudelaire5
  25. Katsushika Hokusai66
  26. James Madison75
  27. Honoré de Balzac27
  28. Simón Bolívar43
  29. Arthur Schopenhauer38
  30. Victoria7
  31. Alexandre Dumas24
  32. Franz Schubert29
  33. Søren Kierkegaard13
  34. Heinrich Heine29
  35. John Quincy Adams59
  36. Andrew Jackson59
  37. William Blake69
  38. Gustave Flaubert5
  39. Ulysses S. Grant4
  40. James Monroe68
  41. Nikolai Gogol17
  42. Ralph Waldo Emerson23
  43. Ivan Turgenev8
  44. John Stuart Mill20
  45. Florence Nightingale6
  46. Walt Whitman7
  47. Martin Van Buren44
  48. Andrew Johnson18
  49. Henry David Thoreau9
  50. Zachary Taylor42
  51. James Buchanan35
  52. James K. Polk31
  53. John Tyler36
  54. Mikhail Bakunin12
  55. Alexander von Humboldt57
  56. William Wordsworth56
  57. Millard Fillmore26
  58. William Henry Harrison53
  59. Walter Scott55
  60. Franklin Pierce22
  61. Rutherford B. Hayes4
  62. Benjamin Disraeli22
  63. Taras Shevchenko12
  64. George Eliot7
  65. Stendhal43
  66. George Sand22
  67. Hector Berlioz23
  68. Charlotte Brontë10
  69. James Prescott Joule8
  70. Gregor Mendel4
  71. Joseph Fourier58
  72. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres46
  73. Mary Shelley29
  74. Auguste Comte28
  75. Ada Lovelace11
  76. Giuseppe Garibaldi19
  77. Robert Schumann16
  78. Emily Brontë8
  79. Herman Melville7
  80. Adam Mickiewicz28
  81. Napoleon III18
  82. Mikhail Lermontov12
  83. Pierre-Simon Laplace77
  84. Franz Liszt15
  85. Theodor Mommsen9
  86. Felix Mendelssohn17
  87. Samuel Taylor Coleridge54
  88. Eugène Delacroix28
  89. André-Marie Ampère51
  90. Herbert Spencer6
  91. Thomas Carlyle31
  92. Alfred Tennyson17
  93. Harriet Beecher Stowe15
  94. Alessandro Volta81
  95. Nathaniel Hawthorne22
  96. John Ruskin7
  97. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow19
  98. Alexis de Tocqueville21
  99. Leo XIII16
  100. Charles Babbage35
  101. John Dalton60
  102. Giacomo Leopardi28
  103. Bernhard Riemannborn
  104. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck82
  105. Ludwig Feuerbach22
  106. Thomas Henry Huxley1
  107. Washington Irving43
  108. Alphonse de Lamartine36
  109. Pius IX34
  110. Carl von Clausewitz46
  111. Alessandro Manzoni41
  112. Gioachino Rossini34
  113. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon17
  114. Joseph Smith21
  115. Alfred Russel Wallace3
  116. Alexandre Dumas fils2
  117. Jeremy Bentham78
  118. Thomas Robert Malthus60
  119. Nicholas I of Russia30
  120. Harriet Tubman2–9

The 120 best known of 168 are listed.