Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1852?

204 of the people we track were surely alive in 1852. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1852: Antoni Gaudí, Antoine Henri Becquerel, Albert Abraham Michelson, Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Emperor Meiji, Santiago Ramón y Cajal and William Ramsay.

Died in 1852: Nikolai Gogol, Ada Lovelace and Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington.

  1. Karl Marx34
  2. Abraham Lincoln43
  3. Leo Tolstoy24
  4. Charles Darwin43
  5. Victor Hugo50
  6. Fyodor Dostoyevsky31
  7. Friedrich Nietzsche8
  8. Thomas Edison5
  9. Mark Twain17
  10. Charles Dickens40
  11. Hans Christian Andersen47
  12. Otto von Bismarck37
  13. Louis Pasteur30
  14. Richard Wagner39
  15. Carl Friedrich Gauss75
  16. Friedrich Engels32
  17. Sarah Bernhardt8
  18. Alfred Nobel19
  19. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky12
  20. Jules Verne24
  21. Michael Faraday61
  22. Giuseppe Verdi39
  23. Charles Baudelaire31
  24. Dmitri Mendeleev18
  25. Arthur Schopenhauer64
  26. Victoria33
  27. Alexandre Dumas50
  28. Søren Kierkegaard39
  29. Henrik Ibsen24
  30. Heinrich Heine55
  31. Émile Zola12
  32. James Clerk Maxwell21
  33. Johannes Brahms19
  34. Anatole France8
  35. Alexander Graham Bell5
  36. Octave Mirbeau4
  37. Gustave Flaubert31
  38. Ulysses S. Grant30
  39. Nikolai Gogol42 or 43 †
  40. Lewis Carroll20
  41. Wilhelm Röntgen7
  42. Ralph Waldo Emerson49
  43. Claude Monet12
  44. Guy de Maupassant2
  45. Robert Louis Stevenson2
  46. Ivan Turgenev34
  47. John Stuart Mill46
  48. Florence Nightingale32
  49. Antonín Dvořák11
  50. Walt Whitman33
  51. James A. Garfield21
  52. Emily Dickinson22
  53. Martin Van Buren70
  54. Grover Cleveland15
  55. Andrew Johnson44
  56. Henry David Thoreau35
  57. James Buchanan61
  58. John Tyler62
  59. Mikhail Bakunin38
  60. William McKinley9
  61. Alexander von Humboldt83
  62. Millard Fillmore52
  63. Franklin Pierce48
  64. Rutherford B. Hayes30
  65. Paul Cézanne13
  66. Henryk Sienkiewicz6
  67. Benjamin Disraeli48
  68. Taras Shevchenko38
  69. George Eliot33
  70. George Sand48
  71. Benjamin Harrison19
  72. Hector Berlioz49
  73. Charlotte Brontë36
  74. James Prescott Joule34
  75. Gregor Mendel30
  76. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres72
  77. Auguste Comte54
  78. Ada Lovelace36 †
  79. Paul Gauguin4
  80. Chester A. Arthur23
  81. Giuseppe Garibaldi45
  82. Robert Schumann42
  83. Herman Melville33
  84. Auguste Rodin12
  85. Antoni Gaudíborn
  86. Adam Mickiewicz54
  87. Napoleon III44
  88. Franz Liszt41
  89. Theodor Mommsen35
  90. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson20
  91. Robert Koch9
  92. Frédéric Mistral22
  93. William James10
  94. Ivan Pavlov3
  95. Giosuè Carducci17
  96. Sully Prudhomme13
  97. Eugène Delacroix54
  98. Herbert Spencer32
  99. Thomas Carlyle57
  100. Thomas Hardy12
  101. Peter Kropotkin10
  102. Alfred Tennyson43
  103. Harriet Beecher Stowe41
  104. Pius X17
  105. Paul Verlaine8
  106. August Strindberg3
  107. Nathaniel Hawthorne48
  108. John Ruskin33
  109. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow45
  110. Alexis de Tocqueville47
  111. Leo XIII42
  112. Pierre-Auguste Renoir11
  113. Georg Cantor7
  114. Charles Babbage61
  115. Edgar Degas18
  116. Andrew Carnegie17
  117. Ramakrishna16
  118. Édouard Manet20
  119. Louisa May Alcott20
  120. Carl Benz8

The 120 best known of 204 are listed.