Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1846?

199 of the people we track were surely alive in 1846. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1846: Henryk Sienkiewicz and Rudolf Christoph Eucken.

Died in 1846: Gregory XVI.

  1. Karl Marx28
  2. Abraham Lincoln37
  3. Leo Tolstoy18
  4. Charles Darwin37
  5. Victor Hugo44
  6. Fyodor Dostoyevsky25
  7. Friedrich Nietzsche2
  8. Mark Twain11
  9. Charles Dickens34
  10. Hans Christian Andersen41
  11. Edgar Allan Poe37
  12. Otto von Bismarck31
  13. Louis Pasteur24
  14. Richard Wagner33
  15. Carl Friedrich Gauss69
  16. Frédéric Chopin36
  17. Friedrich Engels26
  18. Sarah Bernhardt2
  19. Alfred Nobel13
  20. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky6
  21. Jules Verne18
  22. Michael Faraday55
  23. Giuseppe Verdi33
  24. Charles Baudelaire25
  25. Dmitri Mendeleev12
  26. Katsushika Hokusai86
  27. Honoré de Balzac47
  28. Arthur Schopenhauer58
  29. Victoria27
  30. Alexandre Dumas44
  31. Søren Kierkegaard33
  32. Henrik Ibsen18
  33. Heinrich Heine49
  34. John Quincy Adams79
  35. Émile Zola6
  36. James Clerk Maxwell15
  37. Johannes Brahms13
  38. Anatole France2
  39. Gustave Flaubert25
  40. Ulysses S. Grant24
  41. Nikolai Gogol37
  42. Lewis Carroll14
  43. Wilhelm Röntgen1
  44. Ralph Waldo Emerson43
  45. Claude Monet6
  46. Ivan Turgenev28
  47. John Stuart Mill40
  48. Florence Nightingale26
  49. Antonín Dvořák5
  50. Walt Whitman27
  51. James A. Garfield15
  52. Emily Dickinson16
  53. Martin Van Buren64
  54. Grover Cleveland9
  55. Andrew Johnson38
  56. Henry David Thoreau29
  57. Zachary Taylor62
  58. James Buchanan55
  59. James K. Polk51
  60. John Tyler56
  61. Mikhail Bakunin32
  62. William McKinley3
  63. Alexander von Humboldt77
  64. William Wordsworth76
  65. Millard Fillmore46
  66. Franklin Pierce42
  67. Rutherford B. Hayes24
  68. Paul Cézanne7
  69. Henryk Sienkiewiczborn
  70. Benjamin Disraeli42
  71. Taras Shevchenko32
  72. George Eliot27
  73. George Sand42
  74. Benjamin Harrison13
  75. Hector Berlioz43
  76. Charlotte Brontë30
  77. James Prescott Joule28
  78. Gregor Mendel24
  79. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres66
  80. Mary Shelley49
  81. Auguste Comte48
  82. Ada Lovelace31
  83. Chester A. Arthur17
  84. Giuseppe Garibaldi39
  85. Robert Schumann36
  86. Emily Brontë28
  87. Herman Melville27
  88. Auguste Rodin6
  89. Adam Mickiewicz48
  90. Napoleon III38
  91. Franz Liszt35
  92. Theodor Mommsen29
  93. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson14
  94. Robert Koch3
  95. Felix Mendelssohn37
  96. Frédéric Mistral16
  97. William James4
  98. Giosuè Carducci11
  99. Sully Prudhomme7
  100. Eugène Delacroix48
  101. Herbert Spencer26
  102. Thomas Carlyle51
  103. Thomas Hardy6
  104. Peter Kropotkin4
  105. Alfred Tennyson37
  106. Harriet Beecher Stowe35
  107. Pius X11
  108. Paul Verlaine2
  109. Nathaniel Hawthorne42
  110. John Ruskin27
  111. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow39
  112. Alexis de Tocqueville41
  113. Leo XIII36
  114. Pierre-Auguste Renoir5
  115. Georg Cantor1
  116. Charles Babbage55
  117. Edgar Degas12
  118. Andrew Carnegie11
  119. Ramakrishna10
  120. Édouard Manet14

The 120 best known of 199 are listed.