Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1869?

264 of the people we track were surely alive in 1869. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1869: Mahatma Gandhi, Henri Matisse, André Gide, Emma Goldman, Neville Chamberlain and Grigori Rasputin.

Died in 1869: Franklin Pierce, Hector Berlioz and Alphonse de Lamartine.

  1. Karl Marx51
  2. Mahatma Gandhiborn
  3. Leo Tolstoy41
  4. Charles Darwin60
  5. Victor Hugo67
  6. Vincent van Gogh16
  7. Fyodor Dostoyevsky48
  8. Friedrich Nietzsche25
  9. Thomas Edison22
  10. Mark Twain34
  11. Sigmund Freud13
  12. Charles Dickens57
  13. Marie Curie2
  14. Rabindranath Tagore8
  15. Hans Christian Andersen64
  16. Anton Chekhov9
  17. Oscar Wilde15
  18. Otto von Bismarck54
  19. Nikola Tesla13
  20. Louis Pasteur47
  21. Richard Wagner56
  22. Henry Ford6
  23. Friedrich Engels49
  24. Sarah Bernhardt25
  25. Alfred Nobel36
  26. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky29
  27. Theodore Roosevelt11
  28. Jules Verne41
  29. Woodrow Wilson13
  30. Rudyard Kipling4
  31. George Bernard Shaw13
  32. Max Planck11
  33. Arthur Conan Doyle10
  34. Maxim Gorky1
  35. Henri Matisseborn
  36. Giuseppe Verdi56
  37. Dmitri Mendeleev35
  38. Frank Lloyd Wright2
  39. Victoria50
  40. Alexandre Dumas67
  41. Max Weber5
  42. Henrik Ibsen41
  43. H. G. Wells3
  44. Émile Zola29
  45. David Hilbert7
  46. James Clerk Maxwell38
  47. Johannes Brahms36
  48. Anatole France25
  49. Alexander Graham Bell22
  50. Octave Mirbeau21
  51. Gustave Flaubert48
  52. Ulysses S. Grant47
  53. Lewis Carroll37
  54. Wilhelm Röntgen24
  55. Ralph Waldo Emerson66
  56. Claude Monet29
  57. Guy de Maupassant19
  58. Selma Lagerlöf11
  59. Robert Louis Stevenson19
  60. William Butler Yeats4
  61. Ivan Turgenev51
  62. Sun Yat-sen3
  63. John Stuart Mill63
  64. Florence Nightingale49
  65. Antonín Dvořák28
  66. Gustav Mahler9
  67. Walt Whitman50
  68. James A. Garfield38
  69. Emily Dickinson39
  70. William Howard Taft12
  71. Giacomo Puccini11
  72. Grover Cleveland32
  73. Andrew Johnson61
  74. Arthur Rimbaud15
  75. André Gideborn
  76. Mikhail Bakunin55
  77. William McKinley26
  78. Millard Fillmore69
  79. L. L. Zamenhof10
  80. Warren G. Harding4
  81. Romain Rolland3
  82. Franklin Pierce64 †
  83. Rutherford B. Hayes47
  84. Paul Cézanne30
  85. Henryk Sienkiewicz23
  86. Benjamin Disraeli65
  87. George Eliot50
  88. Henri Bergson10
  89. Swami Vivekananda6
  90. Nicholas II of Russia1
  91. George Sand65
  92. Benjamin Harrison36
  93. Hector Berlioz65 †
  94. James Prescott Joule51
  95. Knut Hamsun10
  96. Gregor Mendel47
  97. Luigi Pirandello2
  98. Paul Gauguin21
  99. Chester A. Arthur40
  100. Maurice Maeterlinck7
  101. Giuseppe Garibaldi62
  102. Herman Melville50
  103. Auguste Rodin29
  104. Antoni Gaudí17
  105. Henri Poincaré15
  106. Pierre Curie10
  107. Claude Debussy7
  108. Wilhelm II10
  109. Joseph Conrad12
  110. Napoleon III61
  111. Franz Liszt58
  112. Theodor Mommsen52
  113. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson37
  114. Emma Goldmanborn
  115. Robert Koch26
  116. Émile Durkheim11
  117. Frédéric Mistral39
  118. William James27
  119. Ivan Pavlov20
  120. Giosuè Carducci34

The 120 best known of 264 are listed.