Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1857?

216 of the people we track were surely alive in 1857. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1857: William Howard Taft, Joseph Conrad, Pius XI, Heinrich Hertz, Clara Zetkin, Ferdinand de Saussure, Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell and Konstantin Tsiolkovsky.

Died in 1857: Auguste Comte and Alfred de Musset.

  1. Karl Marx39
  2. Abraham Lincoln48
  3. Leo Tolstoy29
  4. Charles Darwin48
  5. Victor Hugo55
  6. Vincent van Gogh4
  7. Fyodor Dostoyevsky36
  8. Friedrich Nietzsche13
  9. Thomas Edison10
  10. Mark Twain22
  11. Sigmund Freud1
  12. Charles Dickens45
  13. Hans Christian Andersen52
  14. Oscar Wilde3
  15. Otto von Bismarck42
  16. Nikola Tesla1
  17. Louis Pasteur35
  18. Richard Wagner44
  19. Friedrich Engels37
  20. Sarah Bernhardt13
  21. Alfred Nobel24
  22. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky17
  23. Jules Verne29
  24. Woodrow Wilson1
  25. George Bernard Shaw1
  26. Michael Faraday66
  27. Giuseppe Verdi44
  28. Charles Baudelaire36
  29. Dmitri Mendeleev23
  30. Arthur Schopenhauer69
  31. Victoria38
  32. Alexandre Dumas55
  33. Henrik Ibsen29
  34. Émile Zola17
  35. James Clerk Maxwell26
  36. Johannes Brahms24
  37. Anatole France13
  38. Alexander Graham Bell10
  39. Octave Mirbeau9
  40. Gustave Flaubert36
  41. Ulysses S. Grant35
  42. Lewis Carroll25
  43. Wilhelm Röntgen12
  44. Ralph Waldo Emerson54
  45. Claude Monet17
  46. Guy de Maupassant7
  47. Robert Louis Stevenson7
  48. Ivan Turgenev39
  49. John Stuart Mill51
  50. Florence Nightingale37
  51. Antonín Dvořák16
  52. Walt Whitman38
  53. James A. Garfield26
  54. Emily Dickinson27
  55. William Howard Taftborn
  56. Martin Van Buren75
  57. Grover Cleveland20
  58. Andrew Johnson49
  59. Henry David Thoreau40
  60. James Buchanan66
  61. Arthur Rimbaud3
  62. John Tyler67
  63. Mikhail Bakunin43
  64. William McKinley14
  65. Alexander von Humboldt88
  66. Millard Fillmore57
  67. Franklin Pierce53
  68. Rutherford B. Hayes35
  69. Paul Cézanne18
  70. Henryk Sienkiewicz11
  71. Benjamin Disraeli53
  72. Taras Shevchenko43
  73. George Eliot38
  74. George Sand53
  75. Benjamin Harrison24
  76. Hector Berlioz54
  77. James Prescott Joule39
  78. Gregor Mendel35
  79. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres77
  80. Auguste Comte59 †
  81. Paul Gauguin9
  82. Chester A. Arthur28
  83. Giuseppe Garibaldi50
  84. Herman Melville38
  85. Auguste Rodin17
  86. Antoni Gaudí5
  87. Henri Poincaré3
  88. Joseph Conradborn
  89. Napoleon III49
  90. Franz Liszt46
  91. Theodor Mommsen40
  92. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson25
  93. Robert Koch14
  94. Frédéric Mistral27
  95. William James15
  96. Ivan Pavlov8
  97. Giosuè Carducci22
  98. Sully Prudhomme18
  99. Eugène Delacroix59
  100. Pius XIborn
  101. Herbert Spencer37
  102. Joseph John Thomson1
  103. Thomas Carlyle62
  104. Thomas Hardy17
  105. Peter Kropotkin15
  106. Alfred Tennyson48
  107. Harriet Beecher Stowe46
  108. Pius X22
  109. Paul Verlaine13
  110. August Strindberg8
  111. Nathaniel Hawthorne53
  112. John Ruskin38
  113. Hendrik Lorentz4
  114. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow50
  115. Alexis de Tocqueville52
  116. Leo XIII47
  117. Pierre-Auguste Renoir16
  118. Georg Cantor12
  119. Charles Babbage66
  120. Edgar Degas23

The 120 best known of 216 are listed.