Who was alive in the 19th century

254 people and 11 events and eras

Events and eras

• Ottoman Empire c. 1299–1922
• Mughal Empire 1526–1857
• Edo Period 1603–1868
• Age of Enlightenment c. 1685–c. 1815
• Industrial Revolution c. 1760–c. 1840
• Late Modern Period c. 1800–
• Napoleonic Wars 1803–1815
• Victorian Era 1837–1901
• American Civil War 1861–1865
• Meiji Restoration 1868
• Telephone 1876

People

• Immanuel Kant 1724–1804, philosopher
• Joseph Haydn 1732–1809, composer
• John Adams 1735–1826, US president
• Paul Revere 1735–1818, American patriot
• James Watt 1736–1819, inventor
• Thomas Paine 1737–1809, political theorist
• Marquis de Sade 1740–1814, nobleman
• Thomas Jefferson 1743–1826, US president
• Toussaint Louverture 1743–1803, revolutionary
• Mayer Amschel Rothschild 1744–1812, banker
• Francisco Goya 1746–1828, painter
• Jacques-Louis David 1748–1825, painter
• Edward Jenner 1749–1823, physician
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749–1832, writer
• Betsy Ross 1752–1836, American patriot
• Kitagawa Utamaro c. 1753–1806, artist
• Marquis de Lafayette 1757–1834, military leader
• Katsushika Hokusai 1760–1849, artist
• Alexander von Humboldt 1769–1859, naturalist and explorer
• Napoleon 1769–1821, military leader
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770–1831, philosopher
• Ludwig van Beethoven 1770–1827, composer
• William Clark 1770–1838, explorer
• William Wordsworth 1770–1850, poet
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772–1834, poet
• Meriwether Lewis 1774–1809, explorer
• J. M. W. Turner 1775–1851, painter
• Jane Austen 1775–1817, writer
• Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777–1855, mathematician
• Simón Bolívar 1783–1830, military leader
• Davy Crockett 1786–1836, frontiersman
• John Franklin 1786–1847, explorer
• Arthur Schopenhauer 1788–1860, philosopher
• Lord Byron 1788–1824, poet
• Sacagawea c. 1788–c. 1812, guide
• Charles Babbage 1791–1871, mathematician
• Michael Faraday 1791–1867, physicist
• Samuel Morse 1791–1872, inventor
• Cornelius Vanderbilt 1794–1877, shipping and railroad tycoon
• Franz Schubert 1797–1828, composer
• Mary Shelley 1797–1851, writer
• Sojourner Truth c. 1797–1883, abolitionist
• Auguste Comte 1798–1857, philosopher
• Eugène Delacroix 1798–1863, painter
• Honoré de Balzac 1799–1850, writer
• John Brown 1800–1859, abolitionist
• Katsushika Ōi c. 1800–c. 1866, artist
• Alexandre Dumas 1802–1870, writer
• Victor Hugo 1802–1885, writer
• Hans Christian Andersen 1805–1875, writer
• Joseph Smith 1805–1844, religious leader
• Isambard Kingdom Brunel 1806–1859, engineer
• John Stuart Mill 1806–1873, philosopher
• Thomas Cook 1808–1892, travel entrepreneur
• Abraham Lincoln 1809–1865, US president
• Charles Darwin 1809–1882, naturalist
• Edgar Allan Poe 1809–1849, writer
• Frédéric Chopin 1810–1849, composer
• P. T. Barnum 1810–1891, showman
• Franz Liszt 1811–1886, composer
• Alfred Krupp 1812–1887, industrialist
• Charles Dickens 1812–1870, writer
• David Livingstone 1813–1873, explorer
• Giuseppe Verdi 1813–1901, composer
• Richard Wagner 1813–1883, composer
• Søren Kierkegaard 1813–1855, philosopher
• Ada Lovelace 1815–1852, mathematician
• Otto von Bismarck 1815–1898, statesman
• Charlotte Brontë 1816–1855, writer
• Baháʼu'lláh 1817–1892, religious leader
• Henry David Thoreau 1817–1862, philosopher
• Emily Brontë 1818–1848, writer
• Frederick Douglass 1818–1895, abolitionist
• Karl Marx 1818–1883, philosopher and economist
• Herman Melville 1819–1891, writer
• Queen Victoria 1819–1901, queen
• Walt Whitman 1819–1892, poet
• Florence Nightingale 1820–1910, nurse
• Friedrich Engels 1820–1895, philosopher
• Susan B. Anthony 1820–1906, suffragist
• Clara Barton 1821–1912, nurse
• Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821–1881, writer
• Gustave Flaubert 1821–1880, writer
• Louis Vuitton 1821–1892, trunk maker
• Mary Baker Eddy 1821–1910, religious leader
• Richard Francis Burton 1821–1890, explorer
• Gregor Mendel 1822–1884, geneticist
• Harriet Tubman c. 1822–1913, abolitionist
• Louis Pasteur 1822–1895, chemist
• Rosa Bonheur 1822–1899, painter
• Johann Strauss II 1825–1899, composer
• Jules Verne 1828–1905, writer
• Leo Tolstoy 1828–1910, writer
• Geronimo 1829–1909, military leader
• Levi Strauss 1829–1902, entrepreneur
• Emily Dickinson 1830–1886, poet
• Isabella Bird 1831–1904, explorer
• James Clerk Maxwell 1831–1879, physicist
• Sitting Bull c. 1831–1890, resistance leader
• Édouard Manet 1832–1883, painter
• Alfred Nobel 1833–1896, chemist
• Johannes Brahms 1833–1897, composer
• Dmitri Mendeleev 1834–1907, chemist
• Gottlieb Daimler 1834–1900, automobile pioneer
• Andrew Carnegie 1835–1919, steel magnate
• Mark Twain 1835–1910, writer
• Ramakrishna 1836–1886, mystic
• J. P. Morgan 1837–1913, financier
• Wild Bill Hickok 1837–1876, gunfighter
• Jamsetji Tata 1839–1904, industrialist
• John D. Rockefeller 1839–1937, oil magnate
• Paul Cézanne 1839–1906, painter
• Auguste Rodin 1840–1917, sculptor
• Claude Monet 1840–1926, painter
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840–1893, composer
• Henry Morton Stanley 1841–1904, explorer
• Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1841–1919, painter
• Abdul Hamid II 1842–1918, sultan
• Friedrich Nietzsche 1844–1900, philosopher
• H. J. Heinz 1844–1919, food entrepreneur
• Karl Benz 1844–1929, automobile pioneer
• Mary Cassatt 1844–1926, painter
• Sarah Bernhardt 1844–1923, actress
• George Westinghouse 1846–1914, industrialist
• Alexander Graham Bell 1847–1922, inventor
• Jesse James 1847–1882, outlaw
• Thomas Edison 1847–1931, inventor
• Paul Gauguin 1848–1903, painter
• Antoni Gaudí 1852–1926, architect
• Calamity Jane 1852–1903, frontierswoman
• Marcus Samuel 1853–1927, oil entrepreneur
• Vincent van Gogh 1853–1890, painter
• George Eastman 1854–1932, entrepreneur
• Oscar Wilde 1854–1900, writer
• George Bernard Shaw 1856–1950, playwright
• Nikola Tesla 1856–1943, inventor
• Robert Peary 1856–1920, explorer
• Sigmund Freud 1856–1939, neurologist
• Milton Hershey 1857–1945, chocolate maker
• Émile Durkheim 1858–1917, sociologist
• Emmeline Pankhurst 1858–1928, suffragette
• Giacomo Puccini 1858–1924, composer
• Max Planck 1858–1947, physicist
• Theodore Roosevelt 1858–1919, US president
• Abdolkarim Haeri Yazdi 1859–1937, ayatollah
• Arthur Conan Doyle 1859–1930, writer
• Billy the Kid 1859–1881, outlaw
• Annie Oakley 1860–1926, sharpshooter
• Anton Chekhov 1860–1904, playwright
• Fridtjof Nansen 1861–1930, explorer
• Rabindranath Tagore 1861–1941, poet
• Claude Debussy 1862–1918, composer
• Gustav Klimt 1862–1918, painter
• Edvard Munch 1863–1944, painter
• Henry Ford 1863–1947, auto tycoon
• Swami Vivekananda 1863–1902, monk
• William Randolph Hearst 1863–1951, newspaper publisher
• Max Weber 1864–1920, sociologist
• Nellie Bly 1864–1922, journalist and traveler
• H. G. Wells 1866–1946, writer
• Matthew Henson 1866–1955, explorer
• Wassily Kandinsky 1866–1944, painter
• Frank Lloyd Wright 1867–1959, architect
• Madam C. J. Walker 1867–1919, entrepreneur
• Marie Curie 1867–1934, scientist
• Wilbur Wright 1867–1912, aviation pioneer
• Robert Falcon Scott 1868–1912, explorer
• Calouste Gulbenkian 1869–1955, oil businessman
• Grigori Rasputin 1869–1916, mystic
• Henri Matisse 1869–1954, painter
• Mahatma Gandhi 1869–1948, resistance leader
• Vladimir Lenin 1870–1924, revolutionary
• Marcel Proust 1871–1922, writer
• Orville Wright 1871–1948, aviation pioneer
• Rosa Luxemburg 1871–1919, revolutionary
• Bertrand Russell 1872–1970, philosopher
• Helena Rubinstein 1872–1965, cosmetics entrepreneur
• Piet Mondrian 1872–1944, painter
• Roald Amundsen 1872–1928, explorer
• Enrico Caruso 1873–1921, opera singer
• Ernest Shackleton 1874–1922, explorer
• Gertrude Stein 1874–1946, writer
• Guglielmo Marconi 1874–1937, inventor
• Harry Houdini 1874–1926, magician
• Howard Carter 1874–1939, archaeologist
• Winston Churchill 1874–1965, prime minister
• Carl Jung 1875–1961, psychiatrist
• Hiram Bingham III 1875–1956, explorer
• Mata Hari 1876–1917, spy
• Willis Carrier 1876–1950, engineer and entrepreneur
• Ziya Gökalp 1876–1924, sociologist
• Said Nursi 1877–1960, theologian
• Joseph Stalin 1878–1953, dictator
• Albert Einstein 1879–1955, physicist
• Helen Keller 1880–1968, activist
• Alexander Fleming 1881–1955, physician
• Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1881–1938, statesman
• Pablo Picasso 1881–1973, painter
• William Boeing 1881–1956, aviation entrepreneur
• Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882–1945, US president
• Igor Stravinsky 1882–1971, composer
• James Joyce 1882–1941, writer
• Virginia Woolf 1882–1941, writer
• Benito Mussolini 1883–1945, dictator
• Coco Chanel 1883–1971, fashion designer
• Franz Kafka 1883–1924, writer
• John Maynard Keynes 1883–1946, economist
• Ezra Pound 1885–1972, poet
• Niels Bohr 1885–1962, physicist
• Diego Rivera 1886–1957, painter
• Erwin Schrödinger 1887–1961, physicist
• Georgia O'Keeffe 1887–1986, painter
• Jim Thorpe 1887–1953, multi-sport athlete
• Le Corbusier 1887–1965, architect
• Marcel Duchamp 1887–1968, artist
• Srinivasa Ramanujan 1887–1920, mathematician
• T. S. Eliot 1888–1965, poet
• Adolf Hitler 1889–1945, dictator
• Charlie Chaplin 1889–1977, actor
• Edwin Hubble 1889–1953, astronomer
• Jawaharlal Nehru 1889–1964, prime minister
• Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889–1951, philosopher
• Martin Heidegger 1889–1976, philosopher
• Agatha Christie 1890–1976, writer
• Charles de Gaulle 1890–1970, statesman
• Groucho Marx 1890–1977, comedian
• H. P. Lovecraft 1890–1937, writer
• Harland Sanders 1890–1980, restaurateur
• Ho Chi Minh 1890–1969, revolutionary
• Francisco Franco 1892–1975, dictator
• J. R. R. Tolkien 1892–1973, writer
• Joan Miró 1893–1983, painter
• Mao Zedong 1893–1976, revolutionary
• Kiichiro Toyoda 1894–1952, automaker
• Konosuke Matsushita 1894–1989, industrialist
• Babe Ruth 1895–1948, baseball player
• Buster Keaton 1895–1966, actor
• Jack Dempsey 1895–1983, boxer
• F. Scott Fitzgerald 1896–1940, writer
• Amelia Earhart 1897–1937, aviator
• Joseph Goebbels 1897–1945, Nazi propagandist
• Paavo Nurmi 1897–1973, runner
• William Faulkner 1897–1962, writer
• Alexander Calder 1898–1976, sculptor
• Enzo Ferrari 1898–1988, automaker
• Tamara de Lempicka 1898–1980, painter
• Umm Kulthum c. 1898–1975, singer
• Al Capone 1899–1947, gangster
• Alfred Hitchcock 1899–1980, director
• Duke Ellington 1899–1974, musician
• Ernest Hemingway 1899–1961, writer
• Jorge Luis Borges 1899–1986, writer
• Adi Dassler 1900–1978, shoemaker
• Heinrich Himmler 1900–1945, Nazi leader