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.
- Karl Marx34
- Abraham Lincoln43
- Leo Tolstoy24
- Charles Darwin43
- Victor Hugo50
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky31
- Friedrich Nietzsche8
- Thomas Edison5
- Mark Twain17
- Charles Dickens40
- Hans Christian Andersen47
- Otto von Bismarck37
- Louis Pasteur30
- Richard Wagner39
- Carl Friedrich Gauss75
- Friedrich Engels32
- Sarah Bernhardt8
- Alfred Nobel19
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky12
- Jules Verne24
- Michael Faraday61
- Giuseppe Verdi39
- Charles Baudelaire31
- Dmitri Mendeleev18
- Arthur Schopenhauer64
- Victoria33
- Alexandre Dumas50
- Søren Kierkegaard39
- Henrik Ibsen24
- Heinrich Heine55
- Émile Zola12
- James Clerk Maxwell21
- Johannes Brahms19
- Anatole France8
- Alexander Graham Bell5
- Octave Mirbeau4
- Gustave Flaubert31
- Ulysses S. Grant30
- Nikolai Gogol42 or 43 †
- Lewis Carroll20
- Wilhelm Röntgen7
- Ralph Waldo Emerson49
- Claude Monet12
- Guy de Maupassant2
- Robert Louis Stevenson2
- Ivan Turgenev34
- John Stuart Mill46
- Florence Nightingale32
- Antonín Dvořák11
- Walt Whitman33
- James A. Garfield21
- Emily Dickinson22
- Martin Van Buren70
- Grover Cleveland15
- Andrew Johnson44
- Henry David Thoreau35
- James Buchanan61
- John Tyler62
- Mikhail Bakunin38
- William McKinley9
- Alexander von Humboldt83
- Millard Fillmore52
- Franklin Pierce48
- Rutherford B. Hayes30
- Paul Cézanne13
- Henryk Sienkiewicz6
- Benjamin Disraeli48
- Taras Shevchenko38
- George Eliot33
- George Sand48
- Benjamin Harrison19
- Hector Berlioz49
- Charlotte Brontë36
- James Prescott Joule34
- Gregor Mendel30
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres72
- Auguste Comte54
- Ada Lovelace36 †
- Paul Gauguin4
- Chester A. Arthur23
- Giuseppe Garibaldi45
- Robert Schumann42
- Herman Melville33
- Auguste Rodin12
- Antoni Gaudíborn
- Adam Mickiewicz54
- Napoleon III44
- Franz Liszt41
- Theodor Mommsen35
- Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson20
- Robert Koch9
- Frédéric Mistral22
- William James10
- Ivan Pavlov3
- Giosuè Carducci17
- Sully Prudhomme13
- Eugène Delacroix54
- Herbert Spencer32
- Thomas Carlyle57
- Thomas Hardy12
- Peter Kropotkin10
- Alfred Tennyson43
- Harriet Beecher Stowe41
- Pius X17
- Paul Verlaine8
- August Strindberg3
- Nathaniel Hawthorne48
- John Ruskin33
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow45
- Alexis de Tocqueville47
- Leo XIII42
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir11
- Georg Cantor7
- Charles Babbage61
- Edgar Degas18
- Andrew Carnegie17
- Ramakrishna16
- Édouard Manet20
- Louisa May Alcott20
- Carl Benz8
The 120 best known of 204 are listed.