Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1850?

203 of the people we track were surely alive in 1850. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1850: Guy de Maupassant, Robert Louis Stevenson, Karl Ferdinand Braun, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk and Sofia Kovalevskaya.

Died in 1850: Honoré de Balzac, Zachary Taylor and William Wordsworth.

  1. Karl Marx32
  2. Abraham Lincoln41
  3. Leo Tolstoy22
  4. Charles Darwin41
  5. Victor Hugo48
  6. Fyodor Dostoyevsky29
  7. Friedrich Nietzsche6
  8. Thomas Edison3
  9. Mark Twain15
  10. Charles Dickens38
  11. Hans Christian Andersen45
  12. Otto von Bismarck35
  13. Louis Pasteur28
  14. Richard Wagner37
  15. Carl Friedrich Gauss73
  16. Friedrich Engels30
  17. Sarah Bernhardt6
  18. Alfred Nobel17
  19. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky10
  20. Jules Verne22
  21. Michael Faraday59
  22. Giuseppe Verdi37
  23. Charles Baudelaire29
  24. Dmitri Mendeleev16
  25. Honoré de Balzac51 †
  26. Arthur Schopenhauer62
  27. Victoria31
  28. Alexandre Dumas48
  29. Søren Kierkegaard37
  30. Henrik Ibsen22
  31. Heinrich Heine53
  32. Émile Zola10
  33. James Clerk Maxwell19
  34. Johannes Brahms17
  35. Anatole France6
  36. Alexander Graham Bell3
  37. Octave Mirbeau2
  38. Gustave Flaubert29
  39. Ulysses S. Grant28
  40. Nikolai Gogol41
  41. Lewis Carroll18
  42. Wilhelm Röntgen5
  43. Ralph Waldo Emerson47
  44. Claude Monet10
  45. Guy de Maupassantborn
  46. Robert Louis Stevensonborn
  47. Ivan Turgenev32
  48. John Stuart Mill44
  49. Florence Nightingale30
  50. Antonín Dvořák9
  51. Walt Whitman31
  52. James A. Garfield19
  53. Emily Dickinson20
  54. Martin Van Buren68
  55. Grover Cleveland13
  56. Andrew Johnson42
  57. Henry David Thoreau33
  58. Zachary Taylor65 †
  59. James Buchanan59
  60. John Tyler60
  61. Mikhail Bakunin36
  62. William McKinley7
  63. Alexander von Humboldt81
  64. William Wordsworth80 †
  65. Millard Fillmore50
  66. Franklin Pierce46
  67. Rutherford B. Hayes28
  68. Paul Cézanne11
  69. Henryk Sienkiewicz4
  70. Benjamin Disraeli46
  71. Taras Shevchenko36
  72. George Eliot31
  73. George Sand46
  74. Benjamin Harrison17
  75. Hector Berlioz47
  76. Charlotte Brontë34
  77. James Prescott Joule32
  78. Gregor Mendel28
  79. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres70
  80. Mary Shelley53
  81. Auguste Comte52
  82. Ada Lovelace35
  83. Paul Gauguin2
  84. Chester A. Arthur21
  85. Giuseppe Garibaldi43
  86. Robert Schumann40
  87. Herman Melville31
  88. Auguste Rodin10
  89. Adam Mickiewicz52
  90. Napoleon III42
  91. Franz Liszt39
  92. Theodor Mommsen33
  93. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson18
  94. Robert Koch7
  95. Frédéric Mistral20
  96. William James8
  97. Ivan Pavlov1
  98. Giosuè Carducci15
  99. Sully Prudhomme11
  100. Eugène Delacroix52
  101. Herbert Spencer30
  102. Thomas Carlyle55
  103. Thomas Hardy10
  104. Peter Kropotkin8
  105. Alfred Tennyson41
  106. Harriet Beecher Stowe39
  107. Pius X15
  108. Paul Verlaine6
  109. August Strindberg1
  110. Nathaniel Hawthorne46
  111. John Ruskin31
  112. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow43
  113. Alexis de Tocqueville45
  114. Leo XIII40
  115. Pierre-Auguste Renoir9
  116. Georg Cantor5
  117. Charles Babbage59
  118. Edgar Degas16
  119. Andrew Carnegie15
  120. Ramakrishna14

The 120 best known of 203 are listed.