Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1837?

173 of the people we track were surely alive in 1837. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1837: Grover Cleveland and Johannes Diderik van der Waals.

Died in 1837: Alexander Pushkin, Giacomo Leopardi and William IV.

  1. Karl Marx19
  2. Abraham Lincoln28
  3. Leo Tolstoy9
  4. Charles Darwin28
  5. Victor Hugo35
  6. Fyodor Dostoyevsky16
  7. Mark Twain2
  8. Charles Dickens25
  9. Alexander Pushkin37 †
  10. Hans Christian Andersen32
  11. Edgar Allan Poe28
  12. Otto von Bismarck22
  13. Louis Pasteur15
  14. Richard Wagner24
  15. Carl Friedrich Gauss60
  16. Frédéric Chopin27
  17. Friedrich Engels17
  18. Alfred Nobel4
  19. Jules Verne9
  20. Michael Faraday46
  21. Giuseppe Verdi24
  22. Charles Baudelaire16
  23. Dmitri Mendeleev3
  24. Katsushika Hokusai77
  25. Honoré de Balzac38
  26. Arthur Schopenhauer49
  27. Victoria18
  28. Alexandre Dumas35
  29. Søren Kierkegaard24
  30. Henrik Ibsen9
  31. Heinrich Heine40
  32. John Quincy Adams70
  33. Andrew Jackson70
  34. James Clerk Maxwell6
  35. Johannes Brahms4
  36. Gustave Flaubert16
  37. Ulysses S. Grant15
  38. Nikolai Gogol28
  39. Lewis Carroll5
  40. Ralph Waldo Emerson34
  41. Ivan Turgenev19
  42. John Stuart Mill31
  43. Florence Nightingale17
  44. Walt Whitman18
  45. James A. Garfield6
  46. Emily Dickinson7
  47. Martin Van Buren55
  48. Grover Clevelandborn
  49. Andrew Johnson29
  50. Henry David Thoreau20
  51. Zachary Taylor53
  52. James Buchanan46
  53. James K. Polk42
  54. John Tyler47
  55. Mikhail Bakunin23
  56. Alexander von Humboldt68
  57. William Wordsworth67
  58. Millard Fillmore37
  59. William Henry Harrison64
  60. Franklin Pierce33
  61. Rutherford B. Hayes15
  62. Benjamin Disraeli33
  63. Taras Shevchenko23
  64. George Eliot18
  65. Stendhal54
  66. George Sand33
  67. Benjamin Harrison4
  68. Hector Berlioz34
  69. Charlotte Brontë21
  70. James Prescott Joule19
  71. Gregor Mendel15
  72. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres57
  73. Mary Shelley40
  74. Auguste Comte39
  75. Ada Lovelace22
  76. Chester A. Arthur8
  77. Giuseppe Garibaldi30
  78. Robert Schumann27
  79. Emily Brontë19
  80. Herman Melville18
  81. Adam Mickiewicz39
  82. Napoleon III29
  83. Mikhail Lermontov23
  84. Franz Liszt26
  85. Theodor Mommsen20
  86. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson5
  87. Felix Mendelssohn28
  88. Frédéric Mistral7
  89. Giosuè Carducci2
  90. Eugène Delacroix39
  91. Herbert Spencer17
  92. Thomas Carlyle42
  93. Alfred Tennyson28
  94. Harriet Beecher Stowe26
  95. Pius X2
  96. Nathaniel Hawthorne33
  97. John Ruskin18
  98. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow30
  99. Alexis de Tocqueville32
  100. Leo XIII27
  101. Charles Babbage46
  102. Edgar Degas3
  103. John Dalton71
  104. Giacomo Leopardi38 †
  105. Andrew Carnegie2
  106. Ramakrishna1
  107. Édouard Manet5
  108. Louisa May Alcott5
  109. Bernhard Riemann11
  110. Ludwig Feuerbach33
  111. Thomas Henry Huxley12
  112. Washington Irving54
  113. Alphonse de Lamartine47
  114. Pius IX45
  115. Alessandro Manzoni52
  116. Gioachino Rossini45
  117. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon28
  118. Joseph Smith32
  119. Alfred Russel Wallace14
  120. Alexandre Dumas fils13

The 120 best known of 173 are listed.