Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1836?

173 of the people we track were surely alive in 1836. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1836: Ramakrishna.

Died in 1836: James Madison and André-Marie Ampère.

  1. Karl Marx18
  2. Abraham Lincoln27
  3. Leo Tolstoy8
  4. Charles Darwin27
  5. Victor Hugo34
  6. Fyodor Dostoyevsky15
  7. Mark Twain1
  8. Charles Dickens24
  9. Alexander Pushkin37
  10. Hans Christian Andersen31
  11. Edgar Allan Poe27
  12. Otto von Bismarck21
  13. Louis Pasteur14
  14. Richard Wagner23
  15. Carl Friedrich Gauss59
  16. Frédéric Chopin26
  17. Friedrich Engels16
  18. Alfred Nobel3
  19. Jules Verne8
  20. Michael Faraday45
  21. Giuseppe Verdi23
  22. Charles Baudelaire15
  23. Dmitri Mendeleev2
  24. Katsushika Hokusai76
  25. James Madison85 †
  26. Honoré de Balzac37
  27. Arthur Schopenhauer48
  28. Victoria17
  29. Alexandre Dumas34
  30. Søren Kierkegaard23
  31. Henrik Ibsen8
  32. Heinrich Heine39
  33. John Quincy Adams69
  34. Andrew Jackson69
  35. James Clerk Maxwell5
  36. Johannes Brahms3
  37. Gustave Flaubert15
  38. Ulysses S. Grant14
  39. Nikolai Gogol27
  40. Lewis Carroll4
  41. Ralph Waldo Emerson33
  42. Ivan Turgenev18
  43. John Stuart Mill30
  44. Florence Nightingale16
  45. Walt Whitman17
  46. James A. Garfield5
  47. Emily Dickinson6
  48. Martin Van Buren54
  49. Andrew Johnson28
  50. Henry David Thoreau19
  51. Zachary Taylor52
  52. James Buchanan45
  53. James K. Polk41
  54. John Tyler46
  55. Mikhail Bakunin22
  56. Alexander von Humboldt67
  57. William Wordsworth66
  58. Millard Fillmore36
  59. William Henry Harrison63
  60. Franklin Pierce32
  61. Rutherford B. Hayes14
  62. Benjamin Disraeli32
  63. Taras Shevchenko22
  64. George Eliot17
  65. Stendhal53
  66. George Sand32
  67. Benjamin Harrison3
  68. Hector Berlioz33
  69. Charlotte Brontë20
  70. James Prescott Joule18
  71. Gregor Mendel14
  72. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres56
  73. Mary Shelley39
  74. Auguste Comte38
  75. Ada Lovelace21
  76. Chester A. Arthur7
  77. Giuseppe Garibaldi29
  78. Robert Schumann26
  79. Emily Brontë18
  80. Herman Melville17
  81. Adam Mickiewicz38
  82. Napoleon III28
  83. Mikhail Lermontov22
  84. Franz Liszt25
  85. Theodor Mommsen19
  86. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson4
  87. Felix Mendelssohn27
  88. Frédéric Mistral6
  89. Giosuè Carducci1
  90. Eugène Delacroix38
  91. André-Marie Ampère61 †
  92. Herbert Spencer16
  93. Thomas Carlyle41
  94. Alfred Tennyson27
  95. Harriet Beecher Stowe25
  96. Pius X1
  97. Nathaniel Hawthorne32
  98. John Ruskin17
  99. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow29
  100. Alexis de Tocqueville31
  101. Leo XIII26
  102. Charles Babbage45
  103. Edgar Degas2
  104. John Dalton70
  105. Giacomo Leopardi38
  106. Andrew Carnegie1
  107. Ramakrishnaborn
  108. Édouard Manet4
  109. Louisa May Alcott4
  110. Bernhard Riemann10
  111. Ludwig Feuerbach32
  112. Thomas Henry Huxley11
  113. Washington Irving53
  114. Alphonse de Lamartine46
  115. Pius IX44
  116. Alessandro Manzoni51
  117. Gioachino Rossini44
  118. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon27
  119. Joseph Smith31
  120. Alfred Russel Wallace13

The 120 best known of 173 are listed.