Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1876?

279 of the people we track were surely alive in 1876. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1876: Konrad Adenauer, Jack London, Pius XII, Mohammad Ali Jinnah and Mata Hari.

Died in 1876: Mikhail Bakunin and George Sand.

  1. Karl Marx58
  2. Vladimir Lenin6
  3. Mahatma Gandhi7
  4. Leo Tolstoy48
  5. Charles Darwin67
  6. Victor Hugo74
  7. Vincent van Gogh23
  8. Winston Churchill2
  9. Fyodor Dostoyevsky55
  10. Friedrich Nietzsche32
  11. Thomas Edison29
  12. Mark Twain41
  13. Sigmund Freud20
  14. Marie Curie9
  15. Rabindranath Tagore15
  16. Anton Chekhov16
  17. Oscar Wilde22
  18. Otto von Bismarck61
  19. Nikola Tesla20
  20. Louis Pasteur54
  21. Richard Wagner63
  22. Henry Ford13
  23. Friedrich Engels56
  24. Sarah Bernhardt32
  25. Alfred Nobel43
  26. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky36
  27. Theodore Roosevelt18
  28. Marcel Proust5
  29. Jules Verne48
  30. Woodrow Wilson20
  31. Rosa Luxemburg5
  32. Roald Amundsen4
  33. Rudyard Kipling11
  34. George Bernard Shaw20
  35. Bertrand Russell4
  36. Max Planck18
  37. Arthur Conan Doyle17
  38. Maxim Gorky8
  39. Henri Matisse7
  40. Giuseppe Verdi63
  41. Dmitri Mendeleev42
  42. Frank Lloyd Wright9
  43. Victoria57
  44. Ernest Rutherford5
  45. Max Weber12
  46. Henrik Ibsen48
  47. H. G. Wells10
  48. Émile Zola36
  49. David Hilbert14
  50. Thomas Mann1
  51. James Clerk Maxwell45
  52. Herbert Hoover2
  53. Johannes Brahms43
  54. Anatole France32
  55. Alexander Graham Bell29
  56. Octave Mirbeau28
  57. Calvin Coolidge4
  58. Gustave Flaubert55
  59. Ulysses S. Grant54
  60. Lewis Carroll44
  61. Wilhelm Röntgen31
  62. Ralph Waldo Emerson73
  63. Claude Monet36
  64. Guy de Maupassant26
  65. Selma Lagerlöf18
  66. Robert Louis Stevenson26
  67. William Butler Yeats11
  68. Ivan Turgenev58
  69. Sun Yat-sen10
  70. Carl Jung1
  71. Florence Nightingale56
  72. Antonín Dvořák35
  73. Gustav Mahler16
  74. Walt Whitman57
  75. James A. Garfield45
  76. Emily Dickinson46
  77. William Howard Taft19
  78. Giacomo Puccini18
  79. Konrad Adenauerborn
  80. Grover Cleveland39
  81. Jack Londonborn
  82. Arthur Rimbaud22
  83. André Gide7
  84. Mikhail Bakunin62 †
  85. William McKinley33
  86. L. L. Zamenhof17
  87. Warren G. Harding11
  88. Romain Rolland10
  89. Rutherford B. Hayes54
  90. Paul Cézanne37
  91. Henryk Sienkiewicz30
  92. Benjamin Disraeli72
  93. George Eliot57
  94. Henri Bergson17
  95. Swami Vivekananda13
  96. Nicholas II of Russia8
  97. George Sand71 †
  98. Benjamin Harrison43
  99. James Prescott Joule58
  100. Knut Hamsun17
  101. Gregor Mendel54
  102. Luigi Pirandello9
  103. Rainer Maria Rilke1
  104. Paul Gauguin28
  105. Chester A. Arthur47
  106. Maurice Maeterlinck14
  107. Giuseppe Garibaldi69
  108. Herman Melville57
  109. Auguste Rodin36
  110. Antoni Gaudí24
  111. Henri Poincaré22
  112. Pierre Curie17
  113. Claude Debussy14
  114. Wilhelm II17
  115. Guglielmo Marconi2
  116. Joseph Conrad19
  117. Franz Liszt65
  118. Robert Frost2
  119. Theodor Mommsen59
  120. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson44

The 120 best known of 279 are listed.