Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1839?

175 of the people we track were surely alive in 1839. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1839: Paul Cézanne, Sully Prudhomme and John D. Rockefeller.

Died in 1839: Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord.

  1. Karl Marx21
  2. Abraham Lincoln30
  3. Leo Tolstoy11
  4. Charles Darwin30
  5. Victor Hugo37
  6. Fyodor Dostoyevsky18
  7. Mark Twain4
  8. Charles Dickens27
  9. Hans Christian Andersen34
  10. Edgar Allan Poe30
  11. Otto von Bismarck24
  12. Louis Pasteur17
  13. Richard Wagner26
  14. Carl Friedrich Gauss62
  15. Frédéric Chopin29
  16. Friedrich Engels19
  17. Alfred Nobel6
  18. Jules Verne11
  19. Michael Faraday48
  20. Giuseppe Verdi26
  21. Charles Baudelaire18
  22. Dmitri Mendeleev5
  23. Katsushika Hokusai79
  24. Honoré de Balzac40
  25. Arthur Schopenhauer51
  26. Victoria20
  27. Alexandre Dumas37
  28. Søren Kierkegaard26
  29. Henrik Ibsen11
  30. Heinrich Heine42
  31. John Quincy Adams72
  32. Andrew Jackson72
  33. James Clerk Maxwell8
  34. Johannes Brahms6
  35. Gustave Flaubert18
  36. Ulysses S. Grant17
  37. Nikolai Gogol30
  38. Lewis Carroll7
  39. Ralph Waldo Emerson36
  40. Ivan Turgenev21
  41. John Stuart Mill33
  42. Florence Nightingale19
  43. Walt Whitman20
  44. James A. Garfield8
  45. Emily Dickinson9
  46. Martin Van Buren57
  47. Grover Cleveland2
  48. Andrew Johnson31
  49. Henry David Thoreau22
  50. Zachary Taylor55
  51. James Buchanan48
  52. James K. Polk44
  53. John Tyler49
  54. Mikhail Bakunin25
  55. Alexander von Humboldt70
  56. William Wordsworth69
  57. Millard Fillmore39
  58. William Henry Harrison66
  59. Franklin Pierce35
  60. Rutherford B. Hayes17
  61. Paul Cézanneborn
  62. Benjamin Disraeli35
  63. Taras Shevchenko25
  64. George Eliot20
  65. Stendhal56
  66. George Sand35
  67. Benjamin Harrison6
  68. Hector Berlioz36
  69. Charlotte Brontë23
  70. James Prescott Joule21
  71. Gregor Mendel17
  72. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres59
  73. Mary Shelley42
  74. Auguste Comte41
  75. Ada Lovelace24
  76. Chester A. Arthur10
  77. Giuseppe Garibaldi32
  78. Robert Schumann29
  79. Emily Brontë21
  80. Herman Melville20
  81. Adam Mickiewicz41
  82. Napoleon III31
  83. Mikhail Lermontov25
  84. Franz Liszt28
  85. Theodor Mommsen22
  86. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson7
  87. Felix Mendelssohn30
  88. Frédéric Mistral9
  89. Giosuè Carducci4
  90. Sully Prudhommeborn
  91. Eugène Delacroix41
  92. Herbert Spencer19
  93. Thomas Carlyle44
  94. Alfred Tennyson30
  95. Harriet Beecher Stowe28
  96. Pius X4
  97. Nathaniel Hawthorne35
  98. John Ruskin20
  99. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow32
  100. Alexis de Tocqueville34
  101. Leo XIII29
  102. Charles Babbage48
  103. Edgar Degas5
  104. John Dalton73
  105. Andrew Carnegie4
  106. Ramakrishna3
  107. Édouard Manet7
  108. Louisa May Alcott7
  109. Bernhard Riemann13
  110. Ludwig Feuerbach35
  111. Thomas Henry Huxley14
  112. Washington Irving56
  113. Alphonse de Lamartine49
  114. Pius IX47
  115. Alessandro Manzoni54
  116. Gioachino Rossini47
  117. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon30
  118. Joseph Smith34
  119. Alfred Russel Wallace16
  120. Alexandre Dumas fils15

The 120 best known of 175 are listed.