Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1882?

301 of the people we track were surely alive in 1882. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1882: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Igor Stravinsky, Max Born, Sigrid Undset, Emmy Noether and Yanka Kupala.

Died in 1882: Charles Darwin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Giuseppe Garibaldi and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

  1. Albert Einstein3
  2. Karl Marx64
  3. Vladimir Lenin12
  4. Mahatma Gandhi13
  5. Leo Tolstoy54
  6. Charles Darwin73 †
  7. Joseph Stalin4
  8. Victor Hugo80
  9. Vincent van Gogh29
  10. Pablo Picasso1
  11. Winston Churchill8
  12. Friedrich Nietzsche38
  13. Thomas Edison35
  14. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk1–3
  15. Mark Twain47
  16. Sigmund Freud26
  17. Marie Curie15
  18. Rabindranath Tagore21
  19. Franklin Delano Rooseveltborn
  20. Anton Chekhov22
  21. Oscar Wilde28
  22. Otto von Bismarck67
  23. Nikola Tesla26
  24. Louis Pasteur60
  25. James Joyceborn
  26. Richard Wagner69
  27. Henry Ford19
  28. Friedrich Engels62
  29. Sarah Bernhardt38
  30. Alfred Nobel49
  31. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky42
  32. Theodore Roosevelt24
  33. Marcel Proust11
  34. Jules Verne54
  35. Woodrow Wilson26
  36. Rosa Luxemburg11
  37. Roald Amundsen10
  38. Rudyard Kipling17
  39. George Bernard Shaw26
  40. Bertrand Russell10
  41. Leon Trotsky3
  42. Max Planck24
  43. Arthur Conan Doyle23
  44. Maxim Gorky14
  45. Henri Matisse13
  46. Giuseppe Verdi69
  47. Dmitri Mendeleev48
  48. Frank Lloyd Wright15
  49. Virginia Woolfborn
  50. Victoria63
  51. Ernest Rutherford11
  52. Max Weber18
  53. Henrik Ibsen54
  54. H. G. Wells16
  55. Helen Keller2
  56. Émile Zola42
  57. Igor Stravinskyborn
  58. David Hilbert20
  59. Thomas Mann7
  60. Herbert Hoover8
  61. Hermann Hesse5
  62. Johannes Brahms49
  63. Anatole France38
  64. Alexander Graham Bell35
  65. Octave Mirbeau34
  66. Calvin Coolidge10
  67. Ulysses S. Grant60
  68. Lewis Carroll50
  69. Wilhelm Röntgen37
  70. Ralph Waldo Emerson78 †
  71. Claude Monet42
  72. Guy de Maupassant32
  73. Selma Lagerlöf24
  74. Robert Louis Stevenson32
  75. William Butler Yeats17
  76. Ivan Turgenev64
  77. Sun Yat-sen16
  78. Carl Jung7
  79. Florence Nightingale62
  80. Antonín Dvořák41
  81. Gustav Mahler22
  82. Walt Whitman63
  83. Emily Dickinson52
  84. William Howard Taft25
  85. Giacomo Puccini24
  86. Konrad Adenauer6
  87. Grover Cleveland45
  88. Jack London6
  89. Arthur Rimbaud28
  90. André Gide13
  91. William McKinley39
  92. L. L. Zamenhof23
  93. Warren G. Harding17
  94. Romain Rolland16
  95. Rutherford B. Hayes60
  96. Paul Cézanne43
  97. Henryk Sienkiewicz36
  98. Henri Bergson23
  99. Swami Vivekananda19
  100. Nicholas II of Russia14
  101. John XXIII1
  102. Benjamin Harrison49
  103. James Prescott Joule64
  104. Knut Hamsun23
  105. Alexander Fleming1
  106. Gregor Mendel60
  107. Luigi Pirandello15
  108. Rainer Maria Rilke7
  109. Paul Gauguin34
  110. Chester A. Arthur53
  111. Maurice Maeterlinck20
  112. Giuseppe Garibaldi74 †
  113. Herman Melville63
  114. Auguste Rodin42
  115. Antoni Gaudí30
  116. Henri Poincaré28
  117. Pierre Curie23
  118. Claude Debussy20
  119. Wilhelm II23
  120. Guglielmo Marconi8

The 120 best known of 301 are listed.