Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1870?

265 of the people we track were surely alive in 1870. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1870: Vladimir Lenin, Ivan Bunin, Alfred Adler and Maria Elena.

Died in 1870: Charles Dickens, Alexandre Dumas, Robert E. Lee and Prosper Mérimée.

  1. Karl Marx52
  2. Vladimir Leninborn
  3. Mahatma Gandhi1
  4. Leo Tolstoy42
  5. Charles Darwin61
  6. Victor Hugo68
  7. Vincent van Gogh17
  8. Fyodor Dostoyevsky49
  9. Friedrich Nietzsche26
  10. Thomas Edison23
  11. Mark Twain35
  12. Sigmund Freud14
  13. Charles Dickens58 †
  14. Marie Curie3
  15. Rabindranath Tagore9
  16. Hans Christian Andersen65
  17. Anton Chekhov10
  18. Oscar Wilde16
  19. Otto von Bismarck55
  20. Nikola Tesla14
  21. Louis Pasteur48
  22. Richard Wagner57
  23. Henry Ford7
  24. Friedrich Engels50
  25. Sarah Bernhardt26
  26. Alfred Nobel37
  27. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky30
  28. Theodore Roosevelt12
  29. Jules Verne42
  30. Woodrow Wilson14
  31. Rudyard Kipling5
  32. George Bernard Shaw14
  33. Max Planck12
  34. Arthur Conan Doyle11
  35. Maxim Gorky2
  36. Henri Matisse1
  37. Giuseppe Verdi57
  38. Dmitri Mendeleev36
  39. Frank Lloyd Wright3
  40. Victoria51
  41. Alexandre Dumas68 †
  42. Max Weber6
  43. Henrik Ibsen42
  44. H. G. Wells4
  45. Émile Zola30
  46. David Hilbert8
  47. James Clerk Maxwell39
  48. Johannes Brahms37
  49. Anatole France26
  50. Alexander Graham Bell23
  51. Octave Mirbeau22
  52. Gustave Flaubert49
  53. Ulysses S. Grant48
  54. Lewis Carroll38
  55. Wilhelm Röntgen25
  56. Ralph Waldo Emerson67
  57. Claude Monet30
  58. Guy de Maupassant20
  59. Selma Lagerlöf12
  60. Robert Louis Stevenson20
  61. William Butler Yeats5
  62. Ivan Turgenev52
  63. Sun Yat-sen4
  64. John Stuart Mill64
  65. Florence Nightingale50
  66. Antonín Dvořák29
  67. Gustav Mahler10
  68. Walt Whitman51
  69. James A. Garfield39
  70. Emily Dickinson40
  71. William Howard Taft13
  72. Giacomo Puccini12
  73. Grover Cleveland33
  74. Andrew Johnson62
  75. Arthur Rimbaud16
  76. André Gide1
  77. Mikhail Bakunin56
  78. William McKinley27
  79. Millard Fillmore70
  80. L. L. Zamenhof11
  81. Warren G. Harding5
  82. Romain Rolland4
  83. Rutherford B. Hayes48
  84. Paul Cézanne31
  85. Henryk Sienkiewicz24
  86. Benjamin Disraeli66
  87. George Eliot51
  88. Henri Bergson11
  89. Swami Vivekananda7
  90. Nicholas II of Russia2
  91. George Sand66
  92. Benjamin Harrison37
  93. James Prescott Joule52
  94. Knut Hamsun11
  95. Gregor Mendel48
  96. Luigi Pirandello3
  97. Paul Gauguin22
  98. Chester A. Arthur41
  99. Maurice Maeterlinck8
  100. Giuseppe Garibaldi63
  101. Herman Melville51
  102. Auguste Rodin30
  103. Antoni Gaudí18
  104. Henri Poincaré16
  105. Pierre Curie11
  106. Claude Debussy8
  107. Wilhelm II11
  108. Joseph Conrad13
  109. Napoleon III62
  110. Franz Liszt59
  111. Theodor Mommsen53
  112. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson38
  113. Emma Goldman1
  114. Robert Koch27
  115. Émile Durkheim12
  116. Ivan Buninborn
  117. Frédéric Mistral40
  118. William James28
  119. Ivan Pavlov21
  120. Giosuè Carducci35

The 120 best known of 265 are listed.