Who was alive in 1834?
169 of the people we track were surely alive in 1834. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.
Born in 1834: Dmitri Mendeleev, Edgar Degas and Ernst Haeckel.
Died in 1834: Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Thomas Robert Malthus.
- Karl Marx16
- Abraham Lincoln25
- Leo Tolstoy6
- Charles Darwin25
- Victor Hugo32
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky13
- Charles Dickens22
- Alexander Pushkin35
- Hans Christian Andersen29
- Edgar Allan Poe25
- Otto von Bismarck19
- Louis Pasteur12
- Richard Wagner21
- Carl Friedrich Gauss57
- Frédéric Chopin24
- Friedrich Engels14
- Alfred Nobel1
- Jules Verne6
- Michael Faraday43
- Giuseppe Verdi21
- Charles Baudelaire13
- Dmitri Mendeleevborn
- Katsushika Hokusai74
- James Madison83
- Honoré de Balzac35
- Arthur Schopenhauer46
- Victoria15
- Alexandre Dumas32
- Søren Kierkegaard21
- Henrik Ibsen6
- Heinrich Heine37
- John Quincy Adams67
- Andrew Jackson67
- James Clerk Maxwell3
- Johannes Brahms1
- Gustave Flaubert13
- Ulysses S. Grant12
- Nikolai Gogol25
- Lewis Carroll2
- Ralph Waldo Emerson31
- Ivan Turgenev16
- John Stuart Mill28
- Florence Nightingale14
- Walt Whitman15
- James A. Garfield3
- Emily Dickinson4
- Martin Van Buren52
- Andrew Johnson26
- Henry David Thoreau17
- Zachary Taylor50
- James Buchanan43
- James K. Polk39
- John Tyler44
- Mikhail Bakunin20
- Alexander von Humboldt65
- William Wordsworth64
- Millard Fillmore34
- William Henry Harrison61
- Franklin Pierce30
- Rutherford B. Hayes12
- Benjamin Disraeli30
- Taras Shevchenko20
- George Eliot15
- Stendhal51
- George Sand30
- Benjamin Harrison1
- Hector Berlioz31
- Charlotte Brontë18
- James Prescott Joule16
- Gregor Mendel12
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres54
- Mary Shelley37
- Auguste Comte36
- Ada Lovelace19
- Chester A. Arthur5
- Giuseppe Garibaldi27
- Robert Schumann24
- Emily Brontë16
- Herman Melville15
- Adam Mickiewicz36
- Napoleon III26
- Mikhail Lermontov20
- Franz Liszt23
- Theodor Mommsen17
- Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson2
- Felix Mendelssohn25
- Frédéric Mistral4
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge61 †
- Eugène Delacroix36
- André-Marie Ampère59
- Herbert Spencer14
- Thomas Carlyle39
- Alfred Tennyson25
- Harriet Beecher Stowe23
- Nathaniel Hawthorne30
- John Ruskin15
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow27
- Alexis de Tocqueville29
- Leo XIII24
- Charles Babbage43
- Edgar Degasborn
- John Dalton68
- Giacomo Leopardi36
- Édouard Manet2
- Louisa May Alcott2
- Bernhard Riemann8
- Ludwig Feuerbach30
- Thomas Henry Huxley9
- Washington Irving51
- Alphonse de Lamartine44
- Pius IX42
- Alessandro Manzoni49
- Gioachino Rossini42
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon25
- Joseph Smith29
- Alfred Russel Wallace11
- Alexandre Dumas fils10
- Henry Dunant6
- Thomas Robert Malthus68 †
- Nicholas I of Russia38
The 120 best known of 169 are listed.