Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1844?

195 of the people we track were surely alive in 1844. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1844: Friedrich Nietzsche, Sarah Bernhardt, Anatole France, Paul Verlaine, Carl Benz, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Ilya Repin.

Died in 1844: John Dalton and Joseph Smith.

  1. Karl Marx26
  2. Abraham Lincoln35
  3. Leo Tolstoy16
  4. Charles Darwin35
  5. Victor Hugo42
  6. Fyodor Dostoyevsky23
  7. Friedrich Nietzscheborn
  8. Mark Twain9
  9. Charles Dickens32
  10. Hans Christian Andersen39
  11. Edgar Allan Poe35
  12. Otto von Bismarck29
  13. Louis Pasteur22
  14. Richard Wagner31
  15. Carl Friedrich Gauss67
  16. Frédéric Chopin34
  17. Friedrich Engels24
  18. Sarah Bernhardtborn
  19. Alfred Nobel11
  20. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky4
  21. Jules Verne16
  22. Michael Faraday53
  23. Giuseppe Verdi31
  24. Charles Baudelaire23
  25. Dmitri Mendeleev10
  26. Katsushika Hokusai84
  27. Honoré de Balzac45
  28. Arthur Schopenhauer56
  29. Victoria25
  30. Alexandre Dumas42
  31. Søren Kierkegaard31
  32. Henrik Ibsen16
  33. Heinrich Heine47
  34. John Quincy Adams77
  35. Émile Zola4
  36. Andrew Jackson77
  37. James Clerk Maxwell13
  38. Johannes Brahms11
  39. Anatole Franceborn
  40. Gustave Flaubert23
  41. Ulysses S. Grant22
  42. Nikolai Gogol35
  43. Lewis Carroll12
  44. Ralph Waldo Emerson41
  45. Claude Monet4
  46. Ivan Turgenev26
  47. John Stuart Mill38
  48. Florence Nightingale24
  49. Antonín Dvořák3
  50. Walt Whitman25
  51. James A. Garfield13
  52. Emily Dickinson14
  53. Martin Van Buren62
  54. Grover Cleveland7
  55. Andrew Johnson36
  56. Henry David Thoreau27
  57. Zachary Taylor60
  58. James Buchanan53
  59. James K. Polk49
  60. John Tyler54
  61. Mikhail Bakunin30
  62. William McKinley1
  63. Alexander von Humboldt75
  64. William Wordsworth74
  65. Millard Fillmore44
  66. Franklin Pierce40
  67. Rutherford B. Hayes22
  68. Paul Cézanne5
  69. Benjamin Disraeli40
  70. Taras Shevchenko30
  71. George Eliot25
  72. George Sand40
  73. Benjamin Harrison11
  74. Hector Berlioz41
  75. Charlotte Brontë28
  76. James Prescott Joule26
  77. Gregor Mendel22
  78. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres64
  79. Mary Shelley47
  80. Auguste Comte46
  81. Ada Lovelace29
  82. Chester A. Arthur15
  83. Giuseppe Garibaldi37
  84. Robert Schumann34
  85. Emily Brontë26
  86. Herman Melville25
  87. Auguste Rodin4
  88. Adam Mickiewicz46
  89. Napoleon III36
  90. Franz Liszt33
  91. Theodor Mommsen27
  92. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson12
  93. Robert Koch1
  94. Felix Mendelssohn35
  95. Frédéric Mistral14
  96. William James2
  97. Giosuè Carducci9
  98. Sully Prudhomme5
  99. Eugène Delacroix46
  100. Herbert Spencer24
  101. Thomas Carlyle49
  102. Thomas Hardy4
  103. Peter Kropotkin2
  104. Alfred Tennyson35
  105. Harriet Beecher Stowe33
  106. Pius X9
  107. Paul Verlaineborn
  108. Nathaniel Hawthorne40
  109. John Ruskin25
  110. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow37
  111. Alexis de Tocqueville39
  112. Leo XIII34
  113. Pierre-Auguste Renoir3
  114. Charles Babbage53
  115. Edgar Degas10
  116. John Dalton77 †
  117. Andrew Carnegie9
  118. Ramakrishna8
  119. Édouard Manet12
  120. Louisa May Alcott12

The 120 best known of 195 are listed.