Who was alive in 1828?
166 of the people we track were surely alive in 1828. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.
Born in 1828: Leo Tolstoy, Jules Verne, Henrik Ibsen and Henry Dunant.
Died in 1828: Francisco Goya, Franz Schubert and Shaka Zulu.
- Karl Marx10
- Abraham Lincoln19
- Leo Tolstoyborn
- Charles Darwin19
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe79
- Victor Hugo26
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky7
- Charles Dickens16
- Alexander Pushkin29
- Hans Christian Andersen23
- Edgar Allan Poe19
- Otto von Bismarck13
- Louis Pasteur6
- Richard Wagner15
- Carl Friedrich Gauss51
- Frédéric Chopin18
- Friedrich Engels8
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel58
- Jules Verneborn
- Francisco Goya82 †
- Michael Faraday37
- Giuseppe Verdi15
- Charles Baudelaire7
- Katsushika Hokusai68
- James Madison77
- Honoré de Balzac29
- Simón Bolívar45
- Arthur Schopenhauer40
- Victoria9
- Alexandre Dumas26
- Franz Schubert31 †
- Søren Kierkegaard15
- Henrik Ibsenborn
- Heinrich Heine31
- John Quincy Adams61
- Andrew Jackson61
- Gustave Flaubert7
- Ulysses S. Grant6
- James Monroe70
- Nikolai Gogol19
- Ralph Waldo Emerson25
- Ivan Turgenev10
- John Stuart Mill22
- Florence Nightingale8
- Walt Whitman9
- Martin Van Buren46
- Andrew Johnson20
- Henry David Thoreau11
- Zachary Taylor44
- James Buchanan37
- James K. Polk33
- John Tyler38
- Mikhail Bakunin14
- Alexander von Humboldt59
- William Wordsworth58
- Millard Fillmore28
- William Henry Harrison55
- Walter Scott57
- Franklin Pierce24
- Rutherford B. Hayes6
- Benjamin Disraeli24
- Taras Shevchenko14
- George Eliot9
- Stendhal45
- George Sand24
- Hector Berlioz25
- Charlotte Brontë12
- James Prescott Joule10
- Gregor Mendel6
- Joseph Fourier60
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres48
- Mary Shelley31
- Auguste Comte30
- Ada Lovelace13
- Giuseppe Garibaldi21
- Robert Schumann18
- Emily Brontë10
- Herman Melville9
- Adam Mickiewicz30
- Napoleon III20
- Mikhail Lermontov14
- Franz Liszt17
- Theodor Mommsen11
- Felix Mendelssohn19
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge56
- Eugène Delacroix30
- André-Marie Ampère53
- Herbert Spencer8
- Thomas Carlyle33
- Alfred Tennyson19
- Harriet Beecher Stowe17
- Nathaniel Hawthorne24
- John Ruskin9
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow21
- Alexis de Tocqueville23
- Leo XIII18
- Charles Babbage37
- John Dalton62
- Giacomo Leopardi30
- Bernhard Riemann2
- Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck84
- Ludwig Feuerbach24
- Thomas Henry Huxley3
- Washington Irving45
- Alphonse de Lamartine38
- Pius IX36
- Carl von Clausewitz48
- Alessandro Manzoni43
- Gioachino Rossini36
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon19
- Joseph Smith23
- Alfred Russel Wallace5
- Alexandre Dumas fils4
- Henry Dunantborn
- Jeremy Bentham80
- Thomas Robert Malthus62
- Nicholas I of Russia32
- Harriet Tubman4–11
- Alexander II of Russia10
- Anne Brontë8
The 120 best known of 166 are listed.