Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1880?

292 of the people we track were surely alive in 1880. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1880: Helen Keller, Douglas MacArthur, Guillaume Apollinaire, George Marshall and Alexander Blok.

Died in 1880: Gustave Flaubert, George Eliot and Jacques Offenbach.

  1. Albert Einstein1
  2. Karl Marx62
  3. Vladimir Lenin10
  4. Mahatma Gandhi11
  5. Leo Tolstoy52
  6. Charles Darwin71
  7. Joseph Stalin2
  8. Victor Hugo78
  9. Vincent van Gogh27
  10. Winston Churchill6
  11. Fyodor Dostoyevsky59
  12. Friedrich Nietzsche36
  13. Thomas Edison33
  14. Mark Twain45
  15. Sigmund Freud24
  16. Marie Curie13
  17. Rabindranath Tagore19
  18. Anton Chekhov20
  19. Oscar Wilde26
  20. Otto von Bismarck65
  21. Nikola Tesla24
  22. Louis Pasteur58
  23. Richard Wagner67
  24. Henry Ford17
  25. Friedrich Engels60
  26. Sarah Bernhardt36
  27. Alfred Nobel47
  28. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky40
  29. Theodore Roosevelt22
  30. Marcel Proust9
  31. Jules Verne52
  32. Woodrow Wilson24
  33. Rosa Luxemburg9
  34. Roald Amundsen8
  35. Rudyard Kipling15
  36. George Bernard Shaw24
  37. Bertrand Russell8
  38. Leon Trotsky1
  39. Max Planck22
  40. Arthur Conan Doyle21
  41. Maxim Gorky12
  42. Henri Matisse11
  43. Giuseppe Verdi67
  44. Dmitri Mendeleev46
  45. Frank Lloyd Wright13
  46. Victoria61
  47. Ernest Rutherford9
  48. Max Weber16
  49. Henrik Ibsen52
  50. H. G. Wells14
  51. Helen Kellerborn
  52. Émile Zola40
  53. David Hilbert18
  54. Thomas Mann5
  55. Herbert Hoover6
  56. Hermann Hesse3
  57. Johannes Brahms47
  58. Anatole France36
  59. Alexander Graham Bell33
  60. Octave Mirbeau32
  61. Calvin Coolidge8
  62. Gustave Flaubert58 †
  63. Ulysses S. Grant58
  64. Lewis Carroll48
  65. Wilhelm Röntgen35
  66. Ralph Waldo Emerson77
  67. Claude Monet40
  68. Guy de Maupassant30
  69. Selma Lagerlöf22
  70. Robert Louis Stevenson30
  71. William Butler Yeats15
  72. Ivan Turgenev62
  73. Sun Yat-sen14
  74. Carl Jung5
  75. Florence Nightingale60
  76. Antonín Dvořák39
  77. Gustav Mahler20
  78. Walt Whitman61
  79. James A. Garfield49
  80. Emily Dickinson50
  81. William Howard Taft23
  82. Giacomo Puccini22
  83. Konrad Adenauer4
  84. Grover Cleveland43
  85. Jack London4
  86. Arthur Rimbaud26
  87. André Gide11
  88. William McKinley37
  89. L. L. Zamenhof21
  90. Warren G. Harding15
  91. Romain Rolland14
  92. Rutherford B. Hayes58
  93. Paul Cézanne41
  94. Henryk Sienkiewicz34
  95. Benjamin Disraeli76
  96. George Eliot61 †
  97. Henri Bergson21
  98. Swami Vivekananda17
  99. Nicholas II of Russia12
  100. Benjamin Harrison47
  101. James Prescott Joule62
  102. Knut Hamsun21
  103. Gregor Mendel58
  104. Luigi Pirandello13
  105. Rainer Maria Rilke5
  106. Paul Gauguin32
  107. Chester A. Arthur51
  108. Maurice Maeterlinck18
  109. Giuseppe Garibaldi73
  110. Herman Melville61
  111. Auguste Rodin40
  112. Antoni Gaudí28
  113. Henri Poincaré26
  114. Pierre Curie21
  115. Claude Debussy18
  116. Wilhelm II21
  117. Guglielmo Marconi6
  118. Joseph Conrad23
  119. Franz Liszt69
  120. Robert Frost6

The 120 best known of 292 are listed.