Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1841?

182 of the people we track were surely alive in 1841. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1841: Antonín Dvořák, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edward VII and Georges Clemenceau.

Died in 1841: William Henry Harrison and Mikhail Lermontov.

  1. Karl Marx23
  2. Abraham Lincoln32
  3. Leo Tolstoy13
  4. Charles Darwin32
  5. Victor Hugo39
  6. Fyodor Dostoyevsky20
  7. Mark Twain6
  8. Charles Dickens29
  9. Hans Christian Andersen36
  10. Edgar Allan Poe32
  11. Otto von Bismarck26
  12. Louis Pasteur19
  13. Richard Wagner28
  14. Carl Friedrich Gauss64
  15. Frédéric Chopin31
  16. Friedrich Engels21
  17. Alfred Nobel8
  18. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky1
  19. Jules Verne13
  20. Michael Faraday50
  21. Giuseppe Verdi28
  22. Charles Baudelaire20
  23. Dmitri Mendeleev7
  24. Katsushika Hokusai81
  25. Honoré de Balzac42
  26. Arthur Schopenhauer53
  27. Victoria22
  28. Alexandre Dumas39
  29. Søren Kierkegaard28
  30. Henrik Ibsen13
  31. Heinrich Heine44
  32. John Quincy Adams74
  33. Émile Zola1
  34. Andrew Jackson74
  35. James Clerk Maxwell10
  36. Johannes Brahms8
  37. Gustave Flaubert20
  38. Ulysses S. Grant19
  39. Nikolai Gogol32
  40. Lewis Carroll9
  41. Ralph Waldo Emerson38
  42. Claude Monet1
  43. Ivan Turgenev23
  44. John Stuart Mill35
  45. Florence Nightingale21
  46. Antonín Dvořákborn
  47. Walt Whitman22
  48. James A. Garfield10
  49. Emily Dickinson11
  50. Martin Van Buren59
  51. Grover Cleveland4
  52. Andrew Johnson33
  53. Henry David Thoreau24
  54. Zachary Taylor57
  55. James Buchanan50
  56. James K. Polk46
  57. John Tyler51
  58. Mikhail Bakunin27
  59. Alexander von Humboldt72
  60. William Wordsworth71
  61. Millard Fillmore41
  62. William Henry Harrison68 †
  63. Franklin Pierce37
  64. Rutherford B. Hayes19
  65. Paul Cézanne2
  66. Benjamin Disraeli37
  67. Taras Shevchenko27
  68. George Eliot22
  69. Stendhal58
  70. George Sand37
  71. Benjamin Harrison8
  72. Hector Berlioz38
  73. Charlotte Brontë25
  74. James Prescott Joule23
  75. Gregor Mendel19
  76. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres61
  77. Mary Shelley44
  78. Auguste Comte43
  79. Ada Lovelace26
  80. Chester A. Arthur12
  81. Giuseppe Garibaldi34
  82. Robert Schumann31
  83. Emily Brontë23
  84. Herman Melville22
  85. Auguste Rodin1
  86. Adam Mickiewicz43
  87. Napoleon III33
  88. Mikhail Lermontov26 †
  89. Franz Liszt30
  90. Theodor Mommsen24
  91. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson9
  92. Felix Mendelssohn32
  93. Frédéric Mistral11
  94. Giosuè Carducci6
  95. Sully Prudhomme2
  96. Eugène Delacroix43
  97. Herbert Spencer21
  98. Thomas Carlyle46
  99. Thomas Hardy1
  100. Alfred Tennyson32
  101. Harriet Beecher Stowe30
  102. Pius X6
  103. Nathaniel Hawthorne37
  104. John Ruskin22
  105. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow34
  106. Alexis de Tocqueville36
  107. Leo XIII31
  108. Pierre-Auguste Renoirborn
  109. Charles Babbage50
  110. Edgar Degas7
  111. John Dalton75
  112. Andrew Carnegie6
  113. Ramakrishna5
  114. Édouard Manet9
  115. Louisa May Alcott9
  116. Bernhard Riemann15
  117. Ludwig Feuerbach37
  118. Thomas Henry Huxley16
  119. Washington Irving58
  120. Alphonse de Lamartine51

The 120 best known of 182 are listed.