Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1842?

185 of the people we track were surely alive in 1842. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1842: William James, Peter Kropotkin, Abdul Hamid II, Ambrose Bierce and John William Strutt.

Died in 1842: Stendhal.

  1. Karl Marx24
  2. Abraham Lincoln33
  3. Leo Tolstoy14
  4. Charles Darwin33
  5. Victor Hugo40
  6. Fyodor Dostoyevsky21
  7. Mark Twain7
  8. Charles Dickens30
  9. Hans Christian Andersen37
  10. Edgar Allan Poe33
  11. Otto von Bismarck27
  12. Louis Pasteur20
  13. Richard Wagner29
  14. Carl Friedrich Gauss65
  15. Frédéric Chopin32
  16. Friedrich Engels22
  17. Alfred Nobel9
  18. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky2
  19. Jules Verne14
  20. Michael Faraday51
  21. Giuseppe Verdi29
  22. Charles Baudelaire21
  23. Dmitri Mendeleev8
  24. Katsushika Hokusai82
  25. Honoré de Balzac43
  26. Arthur Schopenhauer54
  27. Victoria23
  28. Alexandre Dumas40
  29. Søren Kierkegaard29
  30. Henrik Ibsen14
  31. Heinrich Heine45
  32. John Quincy Adams75
  33. Émile Zola2
  34. Andrew Jackson75
  35. James Clerk Maxwell11
  36. Johannes Brahms9
  37. Gustave Flaubert21
  38. Ulysses S. Grant20
  39. Nikolai Gogol33
  40. Lewis Carroll10
  41. Ralph Waldo Emerson39
  42. Claude Monet2
  43. Ivan Turgenev24
  44. John Stuart Mill36
  45. Florence Nightingale22
  46. Antonín Dvořák1
  47. Walt Whitman23
  48. James A. Garfield11
  49. Emily Dickinson12
  50. Martin Van Buren60
  51. Grover Cleveland5
  52. Andrew Johnson34
  53. Henry David Thoreau25
  54. Zachary Taylor58
  55. James Buchanan51
  56. James K. Polk47
  57. John Tyler52
  58. Mikhail Bakunin28
  59. Alexander von Humboldt73
  60. William Wordsworth72
  61. Millard Fillmore42
  62. Franklin Pierce38
  63. Rutherford B. Hayes20
  64. Paul Cézanne3
  65. Benjamin Disraeli38
  66. Taras Shevchenko28
  67. George Eliot23
  68. Stendhal59 †
  69. George Sand38
  70. Benjamin Harrison9
  71. Hector Berlioz39
  72. Charlotte Brontë26
  73. James Prescott Joule24
  74. Gregor Mendel20
  75. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres62
  76. Mary Shelley45
  77. Auguste Comte44
  78. Ada Lovelace27
  79. Chester A. Arthur13
  80. Giuseppe Garibaldi35
  81. Robert Schumann32
  82. Emily Brontë24
  83. Herman Melville23
  84. Auguste Rodin2
  85. Adam Mickiewicz44
  86. Napoleon III34
  87. Franz Liszt31
  88. Theodor Mommsen25
  89. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson10
  90. Felix Mendelssohn33
  91. Frédéric Mistral12
  92. William Jamesborn
  93. Giosuè Carducci7
  94. Sully Prudhomme3
  95. Eugène Delacroix44
  96. Herbert Spencer22
  97. Thomas Carlyle47
  98. Thomas Hardy2
  99. Peter Kropotkinborn
  100. Alfred Tennyson33
  101. Harriet Beecher Stowe31
  102. Pius X7
  103. Nathaniel Hawthorne38
  104. John Ruskin23
  105. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow35
  106. Alexis de Tocqueville37
  107. Leo XIII32
  108. Pierre-Auguste Renoir1
  109. Charles Babbage51
  110. Edgar Degas8
  111. John Dalton76
  112. Andrew Carnegie7
  113. Ramakrishna6
  114. Édouard Manet10
  115. Louisa May Alcott10
  116. Bernhard Riemann16
  117. Ludwig Feuerbach38
  118. Thomas Henry Huxley17
  119. Washington Irving59
  120. Alphonse de Lamartine52

The 120 best known of 185 are listed.