Who was alive in 1878?
283 of the people we track were surely alive in 1878. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.
Born in 1878: Joseph Stalin and Lise Meitner.
Died in 1878: Pius IX.
- Karl Marx60
- Vladimir Lenin8
- Mahatma Gandhi9
- Leo Tolstoy50
- Charles Darwin69
- Joseph Stalinborn
- Victor Hugo76
- Vincent van Gogh25
- Winston Churchill4
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky57
- Friedrich Nietzsche34
- Thomas Edison31
- Mark Twain43
- Sigmund Freud22
- Marie Curie11
- Rabindranath Tagore17
- Anton Chekhov18
- Oscar Wilde24
- Otto von Bismarck63
- Nikola Tesla22
- Louis Pasteur56
- Richard Wagner65
- Henry Ford15
- Friedrich Engels58
- Sarah Bernhardt34
- Alfred Nobel45
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky38
- Theodore Roosevelt20
- Marcel Proust7
- Jules Verne50
- Woodrow Wilson22
- Rosa Luxemburg7
- Roald Amundsen6
- Rudyard Kipling13
- George Bernard Shaw22
- Bertrand Russell6
- Max Planck20
- Arthur Conan Doyle19
- Maxim Gorky10
- Henri Matisse9
- Giuseppe Verdi65
- Dmitri Mendeleev44
- Frank Lloyd Wright11
- Victoria59
- Ernest Rutherford7
- Max Weber14
- Henrik Ibsen50
- H. G. Wells12
- Émile Zola38
- David Hilbert16
- Thomas Mann3
- James Clerk Maxwell47
- Herbert Hoover4
- Hermann Hesse1
- Johannes Brahms45
- Anatole France34
- Alexander Graham Bell31
- Octave Mirbeau30
- Calvin Coolidge6
- Gustave Flaubert57
- Ulysses S. Grant56
- Lewis Carroll46
- Wilhelm Röntgen33
- Ralph Waldo Emerson75
- Claude Monet38
- Guy de Maupassant28
- Selma Lagerlöf20
- Robert Louis Stevenson28
- William Butler Yeats13
- Ivan Turgenev60
- Sun Yat-sen12
- Carl Jung3
- Florence Nightingale58
- Antonín Dvořák37
- Gustav Mahler18
- Walt Whitman59
- James A. Garfield47
- Emily Dickinson48
- William Howard Taft21
- Giacomo Puccini20
- Konrad Adenauer2
- Grover Cleveland41
- Jack London2
- Arthur Rimbaud24
- André Gide9
- William McKinley35
- L. L. Zamenhof19
- Warren G. Harding13
- Romain Rolland12
- Rutherford B. Hayes56
- Paul Cézanne39
- Henryk Sienkiewicz32
- Benjamin Disraeli74
- George Eliot59
- Henri Bergson19
- Swami Vivekananda15
- Nicholas II of Russia10
- Benjamin Harrison45
- James Prescott Joule60
- Knut Hamsun19
- Gregor Mendel56
- Luigi Pirandello11
- Rainer Maria Rilke3
- Paul Gauguin30
- Chester A. Arthur49
- Maurice Maeterlinck16
- Giuseppe Garibaldi71
- Herman Melville59
- Auguste Rodin38
- Antoni Gaudí26
- Henri Poincaré24
- Pierre Curie19
- Claude Debussy16
- Wilhelm II19
- Guglielmo Marconi4
- Joseph Conrad21
- Franz Liszt67
- Robert Frost4
- Theodor Mommsen61
- Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson46
The 120 best known of 283 are listed.