Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1829?

164 of the people we track were surely alive in 1829. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1829: Chester A. Arthur.

Died in 1829: Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck, Humphry Davy, Niels Henrik Abel, Leo XII and Thomas Young.

  1. Karl Marx11
  2. Abraham Lincoln20
  3. Leo Tolstoy1
  4. Charles Darwin20
  5. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe80
  6. Victor Hugo27
  7. Fyodor Dostoyevsky8
  8. Charles Dickens17
  9. Alexander Pushkin30
  10. Hans Christian Andersen24
  11. Edgar Allan Poe20
  12. Otto von Bismarck14
  13. Louis Pasteur7
  14. Richard Wagner16
  15. Carl Friedrich Gauss52
  16. Frédéric Chopin19
  17. Friedrich Engels9
  18. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel59
  19. Jules Verne1
  20. Michael Faraday38
  21. Giuseppe Verdi16
  22. Charles Baudelaire8
  23. Katsushika Hokusai69
  24. James Madison78
  25. Honoré de Balzac30
  26. Simón Bolívar46
  27. Arthur Schopenhauer41
  28. Victoria10
  29. Alexandre Dumas27
  30. Søren Kierkegaard16
  31. Henrik Ibsen1
  32. Heinrich Heine32
  33. John Quincy Adams62
  34. Andrew Jackson62
  35. Gustave Flaubert8
  36. Ulysses S. Grant7
  37. James Monroe71
  38. Nikolai Gogol20
  39. Ralph Waldo Emerson26
  40. Ivan Turgenev11
  41. John Stuart Mill23
  42. Florence Nightingale9
  43. Walt Whitman10
  44. Martin Van Buren47
  45. Andrew Johnson21
  46. Henry David Thoreau12
  47. Zachary Taylor45
  48. James Buchanan38
  49. James K. Polk34
  50. John Tyler39
  51. Mikhail Bakunin15
  52. Alexander von Humboldt60
  53. William Wordsworth59
  54. Millard Fillmore29
  55. William Henry Harrison56
  56. Walter Scott58
  57. Franklin Pierce25
  58. Rutherford B. Hayes7
  59. Benjamin Disraeli25
  60. Taras Shevchenko15
  61. George Eliot10
  62. Stendhal46
  63. George Sand25
  64. Hector Berlioz26
  65. Charlotte Brontë13
  66. James Prescott Joule11
  67. Gregor Mendel7
  68. Joseph Fourier61
  69. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres49
  70. Mary Shelley32
  71. Auguste Comte31
  72. Ada Lovelace14
  73. Chester A. Arthurborn
  74. Giuseppe Garibaldi22
  75. Robert Schumann19
  76. Emily Brontë11
  77. Herman Melville10
  78. Adam Mickiewicz31
  79. Napoleon III21
  80. Mikhail Lermontov15
  81. Franz Liszt18
  82. Theodor Mommsen12
  83. Felix Mendelssohn20
  84. Samuel Taylor Coleridge57
  85. Eugène Delacroix31
  86. André-Marie Ampère54
  87. Herbert Spencer9
  88. Thomas Carlyle34
  89. Alfred Tennyson20
  90. Harriet Beecher Stowe18
  91. Nathaniel Hawthorne25
  92. John Ruskin10
  93. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow22
  94. Alexis de Tocqueville24
  95. Leo XIII19
  96. Charles Babbage38
  97. John Dalton63
  98. Giacomo Leopardi31
  99. Bernhard Riemann3
  100. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck85 †
  101. Ludwig Feuerbach25
  102. Thomas Henry Huxley4
  103. Washington Irving46
  104. Alphonse de Lamartine39
  105. Pius IX37
  106. Carl von Clausewitz49
  107. Alessandro Manzoni44
  108. Gioachino Rossini37
  109. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon20
  110. Joseph Smith24
  111. Alfred Russel Wallace6
  112. Alexandre Dumas fils5
  113. Henry Dunant1
  114. Jeremy Bentham81
  115. Thomas Robert Malthus63
  116. Nicholas I of Russia33
  117. Harriet Tubman5–12
  118. Alexander II of Russia11
  119. Anne Brontë9
  120. Baháʼu'lláh12

The 120 best known of 164 are listed.