Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1863?

243 of the people we track were surely alive in 1863. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1863: Henry Ford, Swami Vivekananda, Edvard Munch, Pierre de Coubertin, David Lloyd George, Gabriele D'Annunzio and Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.

Died in 1863: Eugène Delacroix and William Makepeace Thackeray.

  1. Karl Marx45
  2. Abraham Lincoln54
  3. Leo Tolstoy35
  4. Charles Darwin54
  5. Victor Hugo61
  6. Vincent van Gogh10
  7. Fyodor Dostoyevsky42
  8. Friedrich Nietzsche19
  9. Thomas Edison16
  10. Mark Twain28
  11. Sigmund Freud7
  12. Charles Dickens51
  13. Rabindranath Tagore2
  14. Hans Christian Andersen58
  15. Anton Chekhov3
  16. Oscar Wilde9
  17. Otto von Bismarck48
  18. Nikola Tesla7
  19. Louis Pasteur41
  20. Richard Wagner50
  21. Henry Fordborn
  22. Friedrich Engels43
  23. Sarah Bernhardt19
  24. Alfred Nobel30
  25. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky23
  26. Theodore Roosevelt5
  27. Jules Verne35
  28. Woodrow Wilson7
  29. George Bernard Shaw7
  30. Max Planck5
  31. Arthur Conan Doyle4
  32. Michael Faraday72
  33. Giuseppe Verdi50
  34. Charles Baudelaire42
  35. Dmitri Mendeleev29
  36. Victoria44
  37. Alexandre Dumas61
  38. Henrik Ibsen35
  39. Émile Zola23
  40. David Hilbert1
  41. James Clerk Maxwell32
  42. Johannes Brahms30
  43. Anatole France19
  44. Alexander Graham Bell16
  45. Octave Mirbeau15
  46. Gustave Flaubert42
  47. Ulysses S. Grant41
  48. Lewis Carroll31
  49. Wilhelm Röntgen18
  50. Ralph Waldo Emerson60
  51. Claude Monet23
  52. Guy de Maupassant13
  53. Selma Lagerlöf5
  54. Robert Louis Stevenson13
  55. Ivan Turgenev45
  56. John Stuart Mill57
  57. Florence Nightingale43
  58. Antonín Dvořák22
  59. Gustav Mahler3
  60. Walt Whitman44
  61. James A. Garfield32
  62. Emily Dickinson33
  63. William Howard Taft6
  64. Giacomo Puccini5
  65. Grover Cleveland26
  66. Andrew Johnson55
  67. James Buchanan72
  68. Arthur Rimbaud9
  69. Mikhail Bakunin49
  70. William McKinley20
  71. Millard Fillmore63
  72. L. L. Zamenhof4
  73. Franklin Pierce59
  74. Rutherford B. Hayes41
  75. Paul Cézanne24
  76. Henryk Sienkiewicz17
  77. Benjamin Disraeli59
  78. George Eliot44
  79. Henri Bergson4
  80. Swami Vivekanandaborn
  81. George Sand59
  82. Benjamin Harrison30
  83. Hector Berlioz60
  84. James Prescott Joule45
  85. Knut Hamsun4
  86. Gregor Mendel41
  87. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres83
  88. Paul Gauguin15
  89. Chester A. Arthur34
  90. Maurice Maeterlinck1
  91. Giuseppe Garibaldi56
  92. Herman Melville44
  93. Auguste Rodin23
  94. Antoni Gaudí11
  95. Henri Poincaré9
  96. Pierre Curie4
  97. Claude Debussy1
  98. Wilhelm II4
  99. Joseph Conrad6
  100. Napoleon III55
  101. Franz Liszt52
  102. Theodor Mommsen46
  103. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson31
  104. Robert Koch20
  105. Émile Durkheim5
  106. Frédéric Mistral33
  107. William James21
  108. Ivan Pavlov14
  109. Giosuè Carducci28
  110. Sully Prudhomme24
  111. Gerhart Hauptmann1
  112. Eugène Delacroix65 †
  113. Pius XI6
  114. Herbert Spencer43
  115. Joseph John Thomson7
  116. Edvard Munchborn
  117. Thomas Carlyle68
  118. Thomas Hardy23
  119. Peter Kropotkin21
  120. Alfred Tennyson54

The 120 best known of 243 are listed.