Who was alive in 1860?
231 of the people we track were surely alive in 1860. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.
Born in 1860: Anton Chekhov, Gustav Mahler, Theodor Herzl, J. M. Barrie and Jane Addams.
Died in 1860: Arthur Schopenhauer.
- Karl Marx42
- Abraham Lincoln51
- Leo Tolstoy32
- Charles Darwin51
- Victor Hugo58
- Vincent van Gogh7
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky39
- Friedrich Nietzsche16
- Thomas Edison13
- Mark Twain25
- Sigmund Freud4
- Charles Dickens48
- Hans Christian Andersen55
- Anton Chekhovborn
- Oscar Wilde6
- Otto von Bismarck45
- Nikola Tesla4
- Louis Pasteur38
- Richard Wagner47
- Friedrich Engels40
- Sarah Bernhardt16
- Alfred Nobel27
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky20
- Theodore Roosevelt2
- Jules Verne32
- Woodrow Wilson4
- George Bernard Shaw4
- Max Planck2
- Arthur Conan Doyle1
- Michael Faraday69
- Giuseppe Verdi47
- Charles Baudelaire39
- Dmitri Mendeleev26
- Arthur Schopenhauer72 †
- Victoria41
- Alexandre Dumas58
- Henrik Ibsen32
- Émile Zola20
- James Clerk Maxwell29
- Johannes Brahms27
- Anatole France16
- Alexander Graham Bell13
- Octave Mirbeau12
- Gustave Flaubert39
- Ulysses S. Grant38
- Lewis Carroll28
- Wilhelm Röntgen15
- Ralph Waldo Emerson57
- Claude Monet20
- Guy de Maupassant10
- Selma Lagerlöf2
- Robert Louis Stevenson10
- Ivan Turgenev42
- John Stuart Mill54
- Florence Nightingale40
- Antonín Dvořák19
- Gustav Mahlerborn
- Walt Whitman41
- James A. Garfield29
- Emily Dickinson30
- William Howard Taft3
- Giacomo Puccini2
- Martin Van Buren78
- Grover Cleveland23
- Andrew Johnson52
- Henry David Thoreau43
- James Buchanan69
- Arthur Rimbaud6
- John Tyler70
- Mikhail Bakunin46
- William McKinley17
- Millard Fillmore60
- L. L. Zamenhof1
- Franklin Pierce56
- Rutherford B. Hayes38
- Paul Cézanne21
- Henryk Sienkiewicz14
- Benjamin Disraeli56
- Taras Shevchenko46
- George Eliot41
- Henri Bergson1
- George Sand56
- Benjamin Harrison27
- Hector Berlioz57
- James Prescott Joule42
- Knut Hamsun1
- Gregor Mendel38
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres80
- Paul Gauguin12
- Chester A. Arthur31
- Giuseppe Garibaldi53
- Herman Melville41
- Auguste Rodin20
- Antoni Gaudí8
- Henri Poincaré6
- Pierre Curie1
- Wilhelm II1
- Joseph Conrad3
- Napoleon III52
- Franz Liszt49
- Theodor Mommsen43
- Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson28
- Robert Koch17
- Émile Durkheim2
- Frédéric Mistral30
- William James18
- Ivan Pavlov11
- Giosuè Carducci25
- Sully Prudhomme21
- Eugène Delacroix62
- Pius XI3
- Herbert Spencer40
- Joseph John Thomson4
- Thomas Carlyle65
- Thomas Hardy20
- Peter Kropotkin18
- Alfred Tennyson51
- Harriet Beecher Stowe49
- Pius X25
- Paul Verlaine16
The 120 best known of 231 are listed.