Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1845?

198 of the people we track were surely alive in 1845. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1845: Wilhelm Röntgen, Georg Cantor, Alexander III of Russia, Carl Spitteler and Gabriel Lippmann.

Died in 1845: Andrew Jackson.

  1. Karl Marx27
  2. Abraham Lincoln36
  3. Leo Tolstoy17
  4. Charles Darwin36
  5. Victor Hugo43
  6. Fyodor Dostoyevsky24
  7. Friedrich Nietzsche1
  8. Mark Twain10
  9. Charles Dickens33
  10. Hans Christian Andersen40
  11. Edgar Allan Poe36
  12. Otto von Bismarck30
  13. Louis Pasteur23
  14. Richard Wagner32
  15. Carl Friedrich Gauss68
  16. Frédéric Chopin35
  17. Friedrich Engels25
  18. Sarah Bernhardt1
  19. Alfred Nobel12
  20. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky5
  21. Jules Verne17
  22. Michael Faraday54
  23. Giuseppe Verdi32
  24. Charles Baudelaire24
  25. Dmitri Mendeleev11
  26. Katsushika Hokusai85
  27. Honoré de Balzac46
  28. Arthur Schopenhauer57
  29. Victoria26
  30. Alexandre Dumas43
  31. Søren Kierkegaard32
  32. Henrik Ibsen17
  33. Heinrich Heine48
  34. John Quincy Adams78
  35. Émile Zola5
  36. Andrew Jackson78 †
  37. James Clerk Maxwell14
  38. Johannes Brahms12
  39. Anatole France1
  40. Gustave Flaubert24
  41. Ulysses S. Grant23
  42. Nikolai Gogol36
  43. Lewis Carroll13
  44. Wilhelm Röntgenborn
  45. Ralph Waldo Emerson42
  46. Claude Monet5
  47. Ivan Turgenev27
  48. John Stuart Mill39
  49. Florence Nightingale25
  50. Antonín Dvořák4
  51. Walt Whitman26
  52. James A. Garfield14
  53. Emily Dickinson15
  54. Martin Van Buren63
  55. Grover Cleveland8
  56. Andrew Johnson37
  57. Henry David Thoreau28
  58. Zachary Taylor61
  59. James Buchanan54
  60. James K. Polk50
  61. John Tyler55
  62. Mikhail Bakunin31
  63. William McKinley2
  64. Alexander von Humboldt76
  65. William Wordsworth75
  66. Millard Fillmore45
  67. Franklin Pierce41
  68. Rutherford B. Hayes23
  69. Paul Cézanne6
  70. Benjamin Disraeli41
  71. Taras Shevchenko31
  72. George Eliot26
  73. George Sand41
  74. Benjamin Harrison12
  75. Hector Berlioz42
  76. Charlotte Brontë29
  77. James Prescott Joule27
  78. Gregor Mendel23
  79. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres65
  80. Mary Shelley48
  81. Auguste Comte47
  82. Ada Lovelace30
  83. Chester A. Arthur16
  84. Giuseppe Garibaldi38
  85. Robert Schumann35
  86. Emily Brontë27
  87. Herman Melville26
  88. Auguste Rodin5
  89. Adam Mickiewicz47
  90. Napoleon III37
  91. Franz Liszt34
  92. Theodor Mommsen28
  93. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson13
  94. Robert Koch2
  95. Felix Mendelssohn36
  96. Frédéric Mistral15
  97. William James3
  98. Giosuè Carducci10
  99. Sully Prudhomme6
  100. Eugène Delacroix47
  101. Herbert Spencer25
  102. Thomas Carlyle50
  103. Thomas Hardy5
  104. Peter Kropotkin3
  105. Alfred Tennyson36
  106. Harriet Beecher Stowe34
  107. Pius X10
  108. Paul Verlaine1
  109. Nathaniel Hawthorne41
  110. John Ruskin26
  111. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow38
  112. Alexis de Tocqueville40
  113. Leo XIII35
  114. Pierre-Auguste Renoir4
  115. Georg Cantorborn
  116. Charles Babbage54
  117. Edgar Degas11
  118. Andrew Carnegie10
  119. Ramakrishna9
  120. Édouard Manet13

The 120 best known of 198 are listed.