Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1874?

273 of the people we track were surely alive in 1874. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1874: Winston Churchill, Herbert Hoover, Guglielmo Marconi, Robert Frost, G. K. Chesterton, William Somerset Maugham and Harry Houdini.

Died in 1874: Millard Fillmore.

  1. Karl Marx56
  2. Vladimir Lenin4
  3. Mahatma Gandhi5
  4. Leo Tolstoy46
  5. Charles Darwin65
  6. Victor Hugo72
  7. Vincent van Gogh21
  8. Winston Churchillborn
  9. Fyodor Dostoyevsky53
  10. Friedrich Nietzsche30
  11. Thomas Edison27
  12. Mark Twain39
  13. Sigmund Freud18
  14. Marie Curie7
  15. Rabindranath Tagore13
  16. Hans Christian Andersen69
  17. Anton Chekhov14
  18. Oscar Wilde20
  19. Otto von Bismarck59
  20. Nikola Tesla18
  21. Louis Pasteur52
  22. Richard Wagner61
  23. Henry Ford11
  24. Friedrich Engels54
  25. Sarah Bernhardt30
  26. Alfred Nobel41
  27. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky34
  28. Theodore Roosevelt16
  29. Marcel Proust3
  30. Jules Verne46
  31. Woodrow Wilson18
  32. Rosa Luxemburg3
  33. Roald Amundsen2
  34. Rudyard Kipling9
  35. George Bernard Shaw18
  36. Bertrand Russell2
  37. Max Planck16
  38. Arthur Conan Doyle15
  39. Maxim Gorky6
  40. Henri Matisse5
  41. Giuseppe Verdi61
  42. Dmitri Mendeleev40
  43. Frank Lloyd Wright7
  44. Victoria55
  45. Ernest Rutherford3
  46. Max Weber10
  47. Henrik Ibsen46
  48. H. G. Wells8
  49. Émile Zola34
  50. David Hilbert12
  51. James Clerk Maxwell43
  52. Herbert Hooverborn
  53. Johannes Brahms41
  54. Anatole France30
  55. Alexander Graham Bell27
  56. Octave Mirbeau26
  57. Calvin Coolidge2
  58. Gustave Flaubert53
  59. Ulysses S. Grant52
  60. Lewis Carroll42
  61. Wilhelm Röntgen29
  62. Ralph Waldo Emerson71
  63. Claude Monet34
  64. Guy de Maupassant24
  65. Selma Lagerlöf16
  66. Robert Louis Stevenson24
  67. William Butler Yeats9
  68. Ivan Turgenev56
  69. Sun Yat-sen8
  70. Florence Nightingale54
  71. Antonín Dvořák33
  72. Gustav Mahler14
  73. Walt Whitman55
  74. James A. Garfield43
  75. Emily Dickinson44
  76. William Howard Taft17
  77. Giacomo Puccini16
  78. Grover Cleveland37
  79. Andrew Johnson66
  80. Arthur Rimbaud20
  81. André Gide5
  82. Mikhail Bakunin60
  83. William McKinley31
  84. Millard Fillmore74 †
  85. L. L. Zamenhof15
  86. Warren G. Harding9
  87. Romain Rolland8
  88. Rutherford B. Hayes52
  89. Paul Cézanne35
  90. Henryk Sienkiewicz28
  91. Benjamin Disraeli70
  92. George Eliot55
  93. Henri Bergson15
  94. Swami Vivekananda11
  95. Nicholas II of Russia6
  96. George Sand70
  97. Benjamin Harrison41
  98. James Prescott Joule56
  99. Knut Hamsun15
  100. Gregor Mendel52
  101. Luigi Pirandello7
  102. Paul Gauguin26
  103. Chester A. Arthur45
  104. Maurice Maeterlinck12
  105. Giuseppe Garibaldi67
  106. Herman Melville55
  107. Auguste Rodin34
  108. Antoni Gaudí22
  109. Henri Poincaré20
  110. Pierre Curie15
  111. Claude Debussy12
  112. Wilhelm II15
  113. Guglielmo Marconiborn
  114. Joseph Conrad17
  115. Franz Liszt63
  116. Robert Frostborn
  117. Theodor Mommsen57
  118. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson42
  119. Emma Goldman5
  120. Robert Koch31

The 120 best known of 273 are listed.