Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1879?

288 of the people we track were surely alive in 1879. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1879: Albert Einstein, Leon Trotsky, Emiliano Zapata, Paul Klee, Otto Hahn and Max von Laue.

Died in 1879: James Clerk Maxwell.

  1. Albert Einsteinborn
  2. Karl Marx61
  3. Vladimir Lenin9
  4. Mahatma Gandhi10
  5. Leo Tolstoy51
  6. Charles Darwin70
  7. Joseph Stalin1
  8. Victor Hugo77
  9. Vincent van Gogh26
  10. Winston Churchill5
  11. Fyodor Dostoyevsky58
  12. Friedrich Nietzsche35
  13. Thomas Edison32
  14. Mark Twain44
  15. Sigmund Freud23
  16. Marie Curie12
  17. Rabindranath Tagore18
  18. Anton Chekhov19
  19. Oscar Wilde25
  20. Otto von Bismarck64
  21. Nikola Tesla23
  22. Louis Pasteur57
  23. Richard Wagner66
  24. Henry Ford16
  25. Friedrich Engels59
  26. Sarah Bernhardt35
  27. Alfred Nobel46
  28. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky39
  29. Theodore Roosevelt21
  30. Marcel Proust8
  31. Jules Verne51
  32. Woodrow Wilson23
  33. Rosa Luxemburg8
  34. Roald Amundsen7
  35. Rudyard Kipling14
  36. George Bernard Shaw23
  37. Bertrand Russell7
  38. Leon Trotskyborn
  39. Max Planck21
  40. Arthur Conan Doyle20
  41. Maxim Gorky11
  42. Henri Matisse10
  43. Giuseppe Verdi66
  44. Dmitri Mendeleev45
  45. Frank Lloyd Wright12
  46. Victoria60
  47. Ernest Rutherford8
  48. Max Weber15
  49. Henrik Ibsen51
  50. H. G. Wells13
  51. Émile Zola39
  52. David Hilbert17
  53. Thomas Mann4
  54. James Clerk Maxwell48 †
  55. Herbert Hoover5
  56. Hermann Hesse2
  57. Johannes Brahms46
  58. Anatole France35
  59. Alexander Graham Bell32
  60. Octave Mirbeau31
  61. Calvin Coolidge7
  62. Gustave Flaubert58
  63. Ulysses S. Grant57
  64. Lewis Carroll47
  65. Wilhelm Röntgen34
  66. Ralph Waldo Emerson76
  67. Claude Monet39
  68. Guy de Maupassant29
  69. Selma Lagerlöf21
  70. Robert Louis Stevenson29
  71. William Butler Yeats14
  72. Ivan Turgenev61
  73. Sun Yat-sen13
  74. Carl Jung4
  75. Florence Nightingale59
  76. Antonín Dvořák38
  77. Gustav Mahler19
  78. Walt Whitman60
  79. James A. Garfield48
  80. Emily Dickinson49
  81. William Howard Taft22
  82. Giacomo Puccini21
  83. Konrad Adenauer3
  84. Grover Cleveland42
  85. Jack London3
  86. Arthur Rimbaud25
  87. André Gide10
  88. William McKinley36
  89. L. L. Zamenhof20
  90. Warren G. Harding14
  91. Romain Rolland13
  92. Rutherford B. Hayes57
  93. Paul Cézanne40
  94. Henryk Sienkiewicz33
  95. Benjamin Disraeli75
  96. George Eliot60
  97. Henri Bergson20
  98. Swami Vivekananda16
  99. Nicholas II of Russia11
  100. Benjamin Harrison46
  101. James Prescott Joule61
  102. Knut Hamsun20
  103. Gregor Mendel57
  104. Luigi Pirandello12
  105. Rainer Maria Rilke4
  106. Paul Gauguin31
  107. Chester A. Arthur50
  108. Maurice Maeterlinck17
  109. Giuseppe Garibaldi72
  110. Herman Melville60
  111. Auguste Rodin39
  112. Antoni Gaudí27
  113. Henri Poincaré25
  114. Pierre Curie20
  115. Claude Debussy17
  116. Wilhelm II20
  117. Guglielmo Marconi5
  118. Joseph Conrad22
  119. Franz Liszt68
  120. Robert Frost5

The 120 best known of 288 are listed.