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Who Was Alive in 1823

57 of 492 historical figures were alive in 1823

John Adams
John AdamsAge 88
1735–1826 · Politics & Leadership
Second US president and Founding Father
 Thomas Jefferson
Thomas JeffersonAge 80
1743–1826 · Politics & Leadership
Author of the Declaration of Independence
 Francisco Goya
Francisco GoyaAge 77
1746–1828 · Art
Spanish Romantic painter
 Edward Jenner
Edward JennerAge 74
1749–1823 · Science & Invention
Pioneer of the smallpox vaccine
 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAge 74
1749–1832 · Literature
German poet and author of Faust
 James Madison
James MadisonAge 72
1751–1836 · Politics & Leadership
Fourth US president, Father of the Constitution
 Hokusai
HokusaiAge 63
1760–1849 · Art
The Great Wave, Japanese master printmaker
 Andrew Jackson
Andrew JacksonAge 56
1767–1845 · Politics & Leadership
Seventh President of the United States
 John Quincy Adams
John Quincy AdamsAge 56
1767–1848 · Politics & Leadership
Sixth President of the United States
 Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van BeethovenAge 53
1770–1827 · Music
Symphonies composed while going deaf
 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelAge 53
1770–1831 · Philosophy & Thought
German idealist philosopher
 Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich GaussAge 46
1777–1855 · Science & Invention
Mathematician called the Prince of Mathematicians
 Niccolò Paganini
Niccolò PaganiniAge 41
1782–1840 · Music
Virtuoso violinist, the Devil's violinist
 Simón Bolívar
Simón BolívarAge 40
1783–1830 · Politics & Leadership
Liberator of South America
 Jacob Grimm
Jacob GrimmAge 38
1785–1863 · Literature
Grimm's Fairy Tales
 Shaka Zulu
Shaka ZuluAge about 36
1787–1828 · Politics & Leadership
Founder of the Zulu Kingdom
 Lord Byron
Lord ByronAge 35
1788–1824 · Literature
Romantic poet of Don Juan and Childe Harold
 Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur SchopenhauerAge 35
1788–1860 · Philosophy & Thought
German philosopher of pessimism
 Michael Faraday
Michael FaradayAge 32
1791–1867 · Science & Invention
Electromagnetic induction
 Charles Babbage
Charles BabbageAge 32
1791–1871 · Science & Invention
Father of the computer, designed the Analytical Engine
 Franz Schubert
Franz SchubertAge 26
1797–1828 · Music
Composer of lieder and the Unfinished Symphony
 Mary Shelley
Mary ShelleyAge 26
1797–1851 · Literature
Author of Frankenstein
 Heinrich Heine
Heinrich HeineAge 26
1797–1856 · Literature
German Romantic poet
 Alexander Pushkin
Alexander PushkinAge 24
1799–1837 · Literature
Father of Russian literature
 Honoré de Balzac
Honoré de BalzacAge 24
1799–1850 · Literature
French novelist of La Comédie humaine
 Victor Hugo
Victor HugoAge 21
1802–1885 · Literature
Les Misérables, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
 Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre DumasAge 21
1802–1870 · Literature
Author of The Three Musketeers
 Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo EmersonAge 20
1803–1882 · Philosophy & Thought
Transcendentalist essayist of Self-Reliance
 George Sand
George SandAge 19
1804–1876 · Literature
French novelist famous under a male pen name
 Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian AndersenAge 18
1805–1875 · Literature
The Little Mermaid, fairy tales
 Abraham Lincoln
Abraham LincolnAge 14
1809–1865 · Politics & Leadership
16th US President, ended slavery
 Charles Darwin
Charles DarwinAge 14
1809–1882 · Science & Invention
Theory of evolution by natural selection
 Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan PoeAge 14
1809–1849 · Literature
Master of the macabre, The Raven
 Frédéric Chopin
Frédéric ChopinAge 13
1810–1849 · Music
Romantic piano virtuoso
 Robert Schumann
Robert SchumannAge 13
1810–1856 · Music
Romantic composer and influential music critic
 Franz Liszt
Franz LisztAge 12
1811–1886 · Music
Piano virtuoso, composer of the Hungarian Rhapsodies
 Charles Dickens
Charles DickensAge 11
1812–1870 · Literature
A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist
 Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe VerdiAge 10
1813–1901 · Music
La Traviata, Aida — operatic master
 Richard Wagner
Richard WagnerAge 10
1813–1883 · Music
Ring Cycle, revolutionary opera
 Søren Kierkegaard
Søren KierkegaardAge 10
1813–1855 · Philosophy & Thought
Danish philosopher, father of existentialism
 Otto von Bismarck
Otto von BismarckAge 8
1815–1898 · Politics & Leadership
Unified Germany, the Iron Chancellor
 Ada Lovelace
Ada LovelaceAge 8
1815–1852 · Science & Invention
Often called the first computer programmer
 Charlotte Brontë
Charlotte BrontëAge 7
1816–1855 · Literature
Author of Jane Eyre, eldest Brontë sister
 Emily Brontë
Emily BrontëAge 5
1818–1848 · Literature
Wuthering Heights
 Frederick Douglass
Frederick DouglassAge 5
1818–1895 · Activism & Social Change
Abolitionist, orator, writer
 Karl Marx
Karl MarxAge 5
1818–1883 · Philosophy & Thought
Das Kapital, Communist Manifesto
 Herman Melville
Herman MelvilleAge 4
1819–1891 · Literature
Moby-Dick
 Queen Victoria
Queen VictoriaAge 4
1819–1901 · Politics & Leadership
Longest-reigning British monarch of her era
 Walt Whitman
Walt WhitmanAge 4
1819–1892 · Literature
Leaves of Grass, father of free verse
 Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. AnthonyAge 3
1820–1906 · Activism & Social Change
Women's suffrage pioneer
 Florence Nightingale
Florence NightingaleAge 3
1820–1910 · Activism & Social Change
Founder of modern nursing
 Friedrich Engels
Friedrich EngelsAge 3
1820–1895 · Philosophy & Thought
Co-author of The Communist Manifesto with Marx
 Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor DostoevskyAge 2
1821–1881 · Literature
Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov
 Charles Baudelaire
Charles BaudelaireAge 2
1821–1867 · Literature
French poet of Les Fleurs du mal
 Harriet Tubman
Harriet TubmanAge about 1
1822–1913 · Activism & Social Change
Underground Railroad conductor
 Louis Pasteur
Louis PasteurAge 1
1822–1895 · Science & Invention
Germ theory, pasteurization
 Gregor Mendel
Gregor MendelAge 1
1822–1884 · Science & Invention
Father of genetics

Also Born in 1823

Alfred Russel Wallace
1823–1913 · born January 8
English naturalist (1823–1913)
Sándor Petőfi
1823–1849 · born January 1
Hungarian poet and liberal revolutionary
Max Müller
1823–1900 · born December 6
British philologist (1823–1900)
Leopold Kronecker
1823–1891 · born December 7
German mathematician (1823–1891)
Alexander Ostrovsky
1823–1886 · born April 12
Russian playwright (1823–1886)
Théodore de Banville
1823–1891 · born March 14
French poet and writer (1823–1891)

Died in 1823

Edward Jenner
Edward Jenner
1749–1823 · Science & Invention
Pioneer of the smallpox vaccine

Also Died in 1823

David Ricardo
1772–1823 · died September 11
British economist and politician (1772–1823)
Pope Pius VII
1742–1823 · died August 20
Head of the Catholic Church from 1800 to 1823
Ann Radcliffe
1764–1823 · died February 7
English novelist (1764–1823)
Lazare Carnot
1753–1823 · died August 2
French politician, engineer and mathematician (1753–1823)
Louis-Nicolas Davout
1770–1823 · died June 1
French Marshal (1770–1823)
Jacques Charles
1746–1823 · died April 7
French inventor, scientist and mathematician (1746–1823)

Sources

  1. 1823 — Wikipedia. Births, deaths and events of the year
  2. John Adams — Wikipedia
  3. Thomas Jefferson — Wikipedia
  4. Francisco Goya — Wikipedia
  5. Edward Jenner — Wikipedia
  6. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — Wikipedia
  7. James Madison — Wikipedia
  8. Hokusai — Wikipedia
  9. Andrew Jackson — Wikipedia
  10. John Quincy Adams — Wikipedia
  11. Ludwig van Beethoven — Wikipedia
  12. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel — Wikipedia
  13. Carl Friedrich Gauss — Wikipedia
  14. Niccolò Paganini — Wikipedia
  15. Simón Bolívar — Wikipedia
  16. Jacob Grimm — Wikipedia
  17. Shaka — Wikipedia
  18. Lord Byron — Wikipedia
  19. Arthur Schopenhauer — Wikipedia
  20. Michael Faraday — Wikipedia
  21. Charles Babbage — Wikipedia
  22. Franz Schubert — Wikipedia
  23. Mary Shelley — Wikipedia
  24. Heinrich Heine — Wikipedia
  25. Alexander Pushkin — Wikipedia
  26. Honoré de Balzac — Wikipedia
  27. Victor Hugo — Wikipedia
  28. Alexandre Dumas — Wikipedia
  29. Ralph Waldo Emerson — Wikipedia
  30. George Sand — Wikipedia
  31. Hans Christian Andersen — Wikipedia
  32. Abraham Lincoln — Wikipedia
  33. Charles Darwin — Wikipedia
  34. Edgar Allan Poe — Wikipedia
  35. Frédéric Chopin — Wikipedia
  36. Robert Schumann — Wikipedia
  37. Franz Liszt — Wikipedia
  38. Charles Dickens — Wikipedia
  39. Giuseppe Verdi — Wikipedia
  40. Richard Wagner — Wikipedia
  41. Søren Kierkegaard — Wikipedia
  42. Otto von Bismarck — Wikipedia
  43. Ada Lovelace — Wikipedia
  44. Charlotte Brontë — Wikipedia
  45. Emily Brontë — Wikipedia
  46. Frederick Douglass — Wikipedia
  47. Karl Marx — Wikipedia
  48. Herman Melville — Wikipedia
  49. Queen Victoria — Wikipedia
  50. Walt Whitman — Wikipedia
  51. Susan B. Anthony — Wikipedia
  52. Florence Nightingale — Wikipedia
  53. Friedrich Engels — Wikipedia
  54. Fyodor Dostoevsky — Wikipedia
  55. Charles Baudelaire — Wikipedia
  56. Harriet Tubman — Wikipedia
  57. Louis Pasteur — Wikipedia
  58. Gregor Mendel — Wikipedia
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