Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1872?

270 of the people we track were surely alive in 1872. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1872: Roald Amundsen, Bertrand Russell, Calvin Coolidge and Aurobindo Ghosh.

Died in 1872: Ludwig Feuerbach, Giuseppe Mazzini and Samuel Finley Breese Morse.

  1. Karl Marx54
  2. Vladimir Lenin2
  3. Mahatma Gandhi3
  4. Leo Tolstoy44
  5. Charles Darwin63
  6. Victor Hugo70
  7. Vincent van Gogh19
  8. Fyodor Dostoyevsky51
  9. Friedrich Nietzsche28
  10. Thomas Edison25
  11. Mark Twain37
  12. Sigmund Freud16
  13. Marie Curie5
  14. Rabindranath Tagore11
  15. Hans Christian Andersen67
  16. Anton Chekhov12
  17. Oscar Wilde18
  18. Otto von Bismarck57
  19. Nikola Tesla16
  20. Louis Pasteur50
  21. Richard Wagner59
  22. Henry Ford9
  23. Friedrich Engels52
  24. Sarah Bernhardt28
  25. Alfred Nobel39
  26. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky32
  27. Theodore Roosevelt14
  28. Marcel Proust1
  29. Jules Verne44
  30. Woodrow Wilson16
  31. Rosa Luxemburg1
  32. Roald Amundsenborn
  33. Rudyard Kipling7
  34. George Bernard Shaw16
  35. Bertrand Russellborn
  36. Max Planck14
  37. Arthur Conan Doyle13
  38. Maxim Gorky4
  39. Henri Matisse3
  40. Giuseppe Verdi59
  41. Dmitri Mendeleev38
  42. Frank Lloyd Wright5
  43. Victoria53
  44. Ernest Rutherford1
  45. Max Weber8
  46. Henrik Ibsen44
  47. H. G. Wells6
  48. Émile Zola32
  49. David Hilbert10
  50. James Clerk Maxwell41
  51. Johannes Brahms39
  52. Anatole France28
  53. Alexander Graham Bell25
  54. Octave Mirbeau24
  55. Calvin Coolidgeborn
  56. Gustave Flaubert51
  57. Ulysses S. Grant50
  58. Lewis Carroll40
  59. Wilhelm Röntgen27
  60. Ralph Waldo Emerson69
  61. Claude Monet32
  62. Guy de Maupassant22
  63. Selma Lagerlöf14
  64. Robert Louis Stevenson22
  65. William Butler Yeats7
  66. Ivan Turgenev54
  67. Sun Yat-sen6
  68. John Stuart Mill66
  69. Florence Nightingale52
  70. Antonín Dvořák31
  71. Gustav Mahler12
  72. Walt Whitman53
  73. James A. Garfield41
  74. Emily Dickinson42
  75. William Howard Taft15
  76. Giacomo Puccini14
  77. Grover Cleveland35
  78. Andrew Johnson64
  79. Arthur Rimbaud18
  80. André Gide3
  81. Mikhail Bakunin58
  82. William McKinley29
  83. Millard Fillmore72
  84. L. L. Zamenhof13
  85. Warren G. Harding7
  86. Romain Rolland6
  87. Rutherford B. Hayes50
  88. Paul Cézanne33
  89. Henryk Sienkiewicz26
  90. Benjamin Disraeli68
  91. George Eliot53
  92. Henri Bergson13
  93. Swami Vivekananda9
  94. Nicholas II of Russia4
  95. George Sand68
  96. Benjamin Harrison39
  97. James Prescott Joule54
  98. Knut Hamsun13
  99. Gregor Mendel50
  100. Luigi Pirandello5
  101. Paul Gauguin24
  102. Chester A. Arthur43
  103. Maurice Maeterlinck10
  104. Giuseppe Garibaldi65
  105. Herman Melville53
  106. Auguste Rodin32
  107. Antoni Gaudí20
  108. Henri Poincaré18
  109. Pierre Curie13
  110. Claude Debussy10
  111. Wilhelm II13
  112. Joseph Conrad15
  113. Napoleon III64
  114. Franz Liszt61
  115. Theodor Mommsen55
  116. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson40
  117. Emma Goldman3
  118. Robert Koch29
  119. Émile Durkheim14
  120. Ivan Bunin2

The 120 best known of 270 are listed.