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.
- Karl Marx8
- Abraham Lincoln17
- Charles Darwin17
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe77
- Ludwig van Beethoven54–58
- Victor Hugo24
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky5
- Charles Dickens14
- Alexander Pushkin27
- Hans Christian Andersen21
- Thomas Jefferson83 †
- Edgar Allan Poe17
- Otto von Bismarck11
- Louis Pasteur4
- Richard Wagner13
- Carl Friedrich Gauss49
- Frédéric Chopin16
- Friedrich Engels6
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel56
- John Adams90 †
- Francisco Goya80
- Michael Faraday35
- Giuseppe Verdi13
- Charles Baudelaire5
- Katsushika Hokusai66
- James Madison75
- Honoré de Balzac27
- Simón Bolívar43
- Arthur Schopenhauer38
- Victoria7
- Alexandre Dumas24
- Franz Schubert29
- Søren Kierkegaard13
- Heinrich Heine29
- John Quincy Adams59
- Andrew Jackson59
- William Blake69
- Gustave Flaubert5
- Ulysses S. Grant4
- James Monroe68
- Nikolai Gogol17
- Ralph Waldo Emerson23
- Ivan Turgenev8
- John Stuart Mill20
- Florence Nightingale6
- Walt Whitman7
- Martin Van Buren44
- Andrew Johnson18
- Henry David Thoreau9
- Zachary Taylor42
- James Buchanan35
- James K. Polk31
- John Tyler36
- Mikhail Bakunin12
- Alexander von Humboldt57
- William Wordsworth56
- Millard Fillmore26
- William Henry Harrison53
- Walter Scott55
- Franklin Pierce22
- Rutherford B. Hayes4
- Benjamin Disraeli22
- Taras Shevchenko12
- George Eliot7
- Stendhal43
- George Sand22
- Hector Berlioz23
- Charlotte Brontë10
- James Prescott Joule8
- Gregor Mendel4
- Joseph Fourier58
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres46
- Mary Shelley29
- Auguste Comte28
- Ada Lovelace11
- Giuseppe Garibaldi19
- Robert Schumann16
- Emily Brontë8
- Herman Melville7
- Adam Mickiewicz28
- Napoleon III18
- Mikhail Lermontov12
- Pierre-Simon Laplace77
- Franz Liszt15
- Theodor Mommsen9
- Felix Mendelssohn17
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge54
- Eugène Delacroix28
- André-Marie Ampère51
- Herbert Spencer6
- Thomas Carlyle31
- Alfred Tennyson17
- Harriet Beecher Stowe15
- Alessandro Volta81
- Nathaniel Hawthorne22
- John Ruskin7
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow19
- Alexis de Tocqueville21
- Leo XIII16
- Charles Babbage35
- John Dalton60
- Giacomo Leopardi28
- Bernhard Riemannborn
- Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck82
- Ludwig Feuerbach22
- Thomas Henry Huxley1
- Washington Irving43
- Alphonse de Lamartine36
- Pius IX34
- Carl von Clausewitz46
- Alessandro Manzoni41
- Gioachino Rossini34
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon17
- Joseph Smith21
- Alfred Russel Wallace3
- Alexandre Dumas fils2
- Jeremy Bentham78
- Thomas Robert Malthus60
- Nicholas I of Russia30
- Harriet Tubman2–9
The 120 best known of 168 are listed.