Who was alive in 1830?
163 of the people we track were surely alive in 1830. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.
Born in 1830: Emily Dickinson, Frédéric Mistral, Paul Heyse and Franz Joseph I of Austria.
Died in 1830: Simón Bolívar, Joseph Fourier and George IV of the United Kingdom.
- Karl Marx12
- Abraham Lincoln21
- Leo Tolstoy2
- Charles Darwin21
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe81
- Victor Hugo28
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky9
- Charles Dickens18
- Alexander Pushkin31
- Hans Christian Andersen25
- Edgar Allan Poe21
- Otto von Bismarck15
- Louis Pasteur8
- Richard Wagner17
- Carl Friedrich Gauss53
- Frédéric Chopin20
- Friedrich Engels10
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel60
- Jules Verne2
- Michael Faraday39
- Giuseppe Verdi17
- Charles Baudelaire9
- Katsushika Hokusai70
- James Madison79
- Honoré de Balzac31
- Simón Bolívar47 †
- Arthur Schopenhauer42
- Victoria11
- Alexandre Dumas28
- Søren Kierkegaard17
- Henrik Ibsen2
- Heinrich Heine33
- John Quincy Adams63
- Andrew Jackson63
- Gustave Flaubert9
- Ulysses S. Grant8
- James Monroe72
- Nikolai Gogol21
- Ralph Waldo Emerson27
- Ivan Turgenev12
- John Stuart Mill24
- Florence Nightingale10
- Walt Whitman11
- Emily Dickinsonborn
- Martin Van Buren48
- Andrew Johnson22
- Henry David Thoreau13
- Zachary Taylor46
- James Buchanan39
- James K. Polk35
- John Tyler40
- Mikhail Bakunin16
- Alexander von Humboldt61
- William Wordsworth60
- Millard Fillmore30
- William Henry Harrison57
- Walter Scott59
- Franklin Pierce26
- Rutherford B. Hayes8
- Benjamin Disraeli26
- Taras Shevchenko16
- George Eliot11
- Stendhal47
- George Sand26
- Hector Berlioz27
- Charlotte Brontë14
- James Prescott Joule12
- Gregor Mendel8
- Joseph Fourier62 †
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres50
- Mary Shelley33
- Auguste Comte32
- Ada Lovelace15
- Chester A. Arthur1
- Giuseppe Garibaldi23
- Robert Schumann20
- Emily Brontë12
- Herman Melville11
- Adam Mickiewicz32
- Napoleon III22
- Mikhail Lermontov16
- Franz Liszt19
- Theodor Mommsen13
- Felix Mendelssohn21
- Frédéric Mistralborn
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge58
- Eugène Delacroix32
- André-Marie Ampère55
- Herbert Spencer10
- Thomas Carlyle35
- Alfred Tennyson21
- Harriet Beecher Stowe19
- Nathaniel Hawthorne26
- John Ruskin11
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow23
- Alexis de Tocqueville25
- Leo XIII20
- Charles Babbage39
- John Dalton64
- Giacomo Leopardi32
- Bernhard Riemann4
- Ludwig Feuerbach26
- Thomas Henry Huxley5
- Washington Irving47
- Alphonse de Lamartine40
- Pius IX38
- Carl von Clausewitz50
- Alessandro Manzoni45
- Gioachino Rossini38
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon21
- Joseph Smith25
- Alfred Russel Wallace7
- Alexandre Dumas fils6
- Henry Dunant2
- Jeremy Bentham82
- Thomas Robert Malthus64
- Nicholas I of Russia34
- Harriet Tubman6–13
- Alexander II of Russia12
- Anne Brontë10
The 120 best known of 163 are listed.