Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1835?

173 of the people we track were surely alive in 1835. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1835: Mark Twain, Giosuè Carducci, Pius X, Andrew Carnegie, Empress Dowager Cixi and Leopold II of Belgium.

Died in 1835: Wilhelm von Humboldt.

  1. Karl Marx17
  2. Abraham Lincoln26
  3. Leo Tolstoy7
  4. Charles Darwin26
  5. Victor Hugo33
  6. Fyodor Dostoyevsky14
  7. Mark Twainborn
  8. Charles Dickens23
  9. Alexander Pushkin36
  10. Hans Christian Andersen30
  11. Edgar Allan Poe26
  12. Otto von Bismarck20
  13. Louis Pasteur13
  14. Richard Wagner22
  15. Carl Friedrich Gauss58
  16. Frédéric Chopin25
  17. Friedrich Engels15
  18. Alfred Nobel2
  19. Jules Verne7
  20. Michael Faraday44
  21. Giuseppe Verdi22
  22. Charles Baudelaire14
  23. Dmitri Mendeleev1
  24. Katsushika Hokusai75
  25. James Madison84
  26. Honoré de Balzac36
  27. Arthur Schopenhauer47
  28. Victoria16
  29. Alexandre Dumas33
  30. Søren Kierkegaard22
  31. Henrik Ibsen7
  32. Heinrich Heine38
  33. John Quincy Adams68
  34. Andrew Jackson68
  35. James Clerk Maxwell4
  36. Johannes Brahms2
  37. Gustave Flaubert14
  38. Ulysses S. Grant13
  39. Nikolai Gogol26
  40. Lewis Carroll3
  41. Ralph Waldo Emerson32
  42. Ivan Turgenev17
  43. John Stuart Mill29
  44. Florence Nightingale15
  45. Walt Whitman16
  46. James A. Garfield4
  47. Emily Dickinson5
  48. Martin Van Buren53
  49. Andrew Johnson27
  50. Henry David Thoreau18
  51. Zachary Taylor51
  52. James Buchanan44
  53. James K. Polk40
  54. John Tyler45
  55. Mikhail Bakunin21
  56. Alexander von Humboldt66
  57. William Wordsworth65
  58. Millard Fillmore35
  59. William Henry Harrison62
  60. Franklin Pierce31
  61. Rutherford B. Hayes13
  62. Benjamin Disraeli31
  63. Taras Shevchenko21
  64. George Eliot16
  65. Stendhal52
  66. George Sand31
  67. Benjamin Harrison2
  68. Hector Berlioz32
  69. Charlotte Brontë19
  70. James Prescott Joule17
  71. Gregor Mendel13
  72. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres55
  73. Mary Shelley38
  74. Auguste Comte37
  75. Ada Lovelace20
  76. Chester A. Arthur6
  77. Giuseppe Garibaldi28
  78. Robert Schumann25
  79. Emily Brontë17
  80. Herman Melville16
  81. Adam Mickiewicz37
  82. Napoleon III27
  83. Mikhail Lermontov21
  84. Franz Liszt24
  85. Theodor Mommsen18
  86. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson3
  87. Felix Mendelssohn26
  88. Frédéric Mistral5
  89. Giosuè Carducciborn
  90. Eugène Delacroix37
  91. André-Marie Ampère60
  92. Herbert Spencer15
  93. Thomas Carlyle40
  94. Alfred Tennyson26
  95. Harriet Beecher Stowe24
  96. Pius Xborn
  97. Nathaniel Hawthorne31
  98. John Ruskin16
  99. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow28
  100. Alexis de Tocqueville30
  101. Leo XIII25
  102. Charles Babbage44
  103. Edgar Degas1
  104. John Dalton69
  105. Giacomo Leopardi37
  106. Andrew Carnegieborn
  107. Édouard Manet3
  108. Louisa May Alcott3
  109. Bernhard Riemann9
  110. Ludwig Feuerbach31
  111. Thomas Henry Huxley10
  112. Washington Irving52
  113. Alphonse de Lamartine45
  114. Pius IX43
  115. Alessandro Manzoni50
  116. Gioachino Rossini43
  117. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon26
  118. Joseph Smith30
  119. Alfred Russel Wallace12
  120. Alexandre Dumas fils11

The 120 best known of 173 are listed.