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Who Was Alive in 1837

55 of 492 historical figures were alive in 1837

Hokusai
HokusaiAge 77
1760–1849 · Art
The Great Wave, Japanese master printmaker
 Andrew Jackson
Andrew JacksonAge 70
1767–1845 · Politics & Leadership
Seventh President of the United States
 John Quincy Adams
John Quincy AdamsAge 70
1767–1848 · Politics & Leadership
Sixth President of the United States
 Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich GaussAge 60
1777–1855 · Science & Invention
Mathematician called the Prince of Mathematicians
 Niccolò Paganini
Niccolò PaganiniAge 55
1782–1840 · Music
Virtuoso violinist, the Devil's violinist
 Jacob Grimm
Jacob GrimmAge 52
1785–1863 · Literature
Grimm's Fairy Tales
 Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur SchopenhauerAge 49
1788–1860 · Philosophy & Thought
German philosopher of pessimism
 Michael Faraday
Michael FaradayAge 46
1791–1867 · Science & Invention
Electromagnetic induction
 Charles Babbage
Charles BabbageAge 46
1791–1871 · Science & Invention
Father of the computer, designed the Analytical Engine
 Mary Shelley
Mary ShelleyAge 40
1797–1851 · Literature
Author of Frankenstein
 Heinrich Heine
Heinrich HeineAge 40
1797–1856 · Literature
German Romantic poet
 Alexander Pushkin
Alexander PushkinAge 38
1799–1837 · Literature
Father of Russian literature
 Honoré de Balzac
Honoré de BalzacAge 38
1799–1850 · Literature
French novelist of La Comédie humaine
 Victor Hugo
Victor HugoAge 35
1802–1885 · Literature
Les Misérables, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
 Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre DumasAge 35
1802–1870 · Literature
Author of The Three Musketeers
 Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo EmersonAge 34
1803–1882 · Philosophy & Thought
Transcendentalist essayist of Self-Reliance
 George Sand
George SandAge 33
1804–1876 · Literature
French novelist famous under a male pen name
 Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian AndersenAge 32
1805–1875 · Literature
The Little Mermaid, fairy tales
 Abraham Lincoln
Abraham LincolnAge 28
1809–1865 · Politics & Leadership
16th US President, ended slavery
 Charles Darwin
Charles DarwinAge 28
1809–1882 · Science & Invention
Theory of evolution by natural selection
 Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan PoeAge 28
1809–1849 · Literature
Master of the macabre, The Raven
 Frédéric Chopin
Frédéric ChopinAge 27
1810–1849 · Music
Romantic piano virtuoso
 Robert Schumann
Robert SchumannAge 27
1810–1856 · Music
Romantic composer and influential music critic
 Franz Liszt
Franz LisztAge 26
1811–1886 · Music
Piano virtuoso, composer of the Hungarian Rhapsodies
 Charles Dickens
Charles DickensAge 25
1812–1870 · Literature
A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist
 Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe VerdiAge 24
1813–1901 · Music
La Traviata, Aida — operatic master
 Richard Wagner
Richard WagnerAge 24
1813–1883 · Music
Ring Cycle, revolutionary opera
 Søren Kierkegaard
Søren KierkegaardAge 24
1813–1855 · Philosophy & Thought
Danish philosopher, father of existentialism
 Otto von Bismarck
Otto von BismarckAge 22
1815–1898 · Politics & Leadership
Unified Germany, the Iron Chancellor
 Ada Lovelace
Ada LovelaceAge 22
1815–1852 · Science & Invention
Often called the first computer programmer
 Charlotte Brontë
Charlotte BrontëAge 21
1816–1855 · Literature
Author of Jane Eyre, eldest Brontë sister
 Emily Brontë
Emily BrontëAge 19
1818–1848 · Literature
Wuthering Heights
 Frederick Douglass
Frederick DouglassAge 19
1818–1895 · Activism & Social Change
Abolitionist, orator, writer
 Karl Marx
Karl MarxAge 19
1818–1883 · Philosophy & Thought
Das Kapital, Communist Manifesto
 Herman Melville
Herman MelvilleAge 18
1819–1891 · Literature
Moby-Dick
 Queen Victoria
Queen VictoriaAge 18
1819–1901 · Politics & Leadership
Longest-reigning British monarch of her era
 Walt Whitman
Walt WhitmanAge 18
1819–1892 · Literature
Leaves of Grass, father of free verse
 Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. AnthonyAge 17
1820–1906 · Activism & Social Change
Women's suffrage pioneer
 Florence Nightingale
Florence NightingaleAge 17
1820–1910 · Activism & Social Change
Founder of modern nursing
 Friedrich Engels
Friedrich EngelsAge 17
1820–1895 · Philosophy & Thought
Co-author of The Communist Manifesto with Marx
 Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor DostoevskyAge 16
1821–1881 · Literature
Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov
 Charles Baudelaire
Charles BaudelaireAge 16
1821–1867 · Literature
French poet of Les Fleurs du mal
 Harriet Tubman
Harriet TubmanAge about 15
1822–1913 · Activism & Social Change
Underground Railroad conductor
 Louis Pasteur
Louis PasteurAge 15
1822–1895 · Science & Invention
Germ theory, pasteurization
 Gregor Mendel
Gregor MendelAge 15
1822–1884 · Science & Invention
Father of genetics
 Jules Verne
Jules VerneAge 9
1828–1905 · Literature
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
 Leo Tolstoy
Leo TolstoyAge 9
1828–1910 · Literature
War and Peace, Anna Karenina
 Henrik Ibsen
Henrik IbsenAge 9
1828–1906 · Literature
Norwegian playwright of A Doll's House
 Emily Dickinson
Emily DickinsonAge 7
1830–1886 · Literature
Reclusive poetic genius
 Sitting Bull
Sitting BullAge about 6
1831–1890 · Politics & Leadership
Lakota leader who defeated Custer at Little Bighorn
 James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk MaxwellAge 6
1831–1879 · Science & Invention
Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism
 Alfred Nobel
Alfred NobelAge 4
1833–1896 · Science & Invention
Invented dynamite, founded Nobel Prizes
 Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri MendeleevAge 3
1834–1907 · Science & Invention
Created the periodic table of elements
 Mark Twain
Mark TwainAge 2
1835–1910 · Literature
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
 Andrew Carnegie
Andrew CarnegieAge 2
1835–1919 · Business & Industry
Steel magnate, philanthropist

Also Born in 1837

Grover Cleveland
1837–1908 · born March 18
President of the United States (1885–1889; 1893–1897)
Johannes Diderik van der Waals
1837–1923 · born November 23
Dutch physicist (1837–1923)
Empress Elisabeth of Austria
1837–1898 · born December 24
Habsburg consort from 1854 to 1898
J. P. Morgan
1837–1913 · born April 17
American financier, banker, and art collector (1837–1913)
Mily Balakirev
1837–1910 · born January 2
Russian composer and pianist (1837–1910)
Ilia Chavchavadze
1837–1907 · born November 8
Georgian poet and politician; Georgian Orthodox Church saint (1837–1907)
Fredrik Bajer
1837–1922 · born April 21
Danish politician (1837–1922)
Paul Morphy
1837–1884 · born June 22
American chess player (1837–1884)
Algernon Charles Swinburne
1837–1909 · born April 5
English poet, playwright and novelist (1837–1909)
Rosalía de Castro
1837–1885 · born February 24
Spanish Galician poet, writer (1837–1885)
Alois Hitler
1837–1903 · born June 7
Father of Adolf Hitler (1837–1903)
Vasil Levski
1837–1873 · born July 18
Bulgarian revolutionary (1837–1873)

Died in 1837

Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Pushkin
1799–1837 · Literature
Father of Russian literature

Also Died in 1837

Giacomo Leopardi
1798–1837 · died June 14
Italian poet, philosopher, and writer (1798–1837)
William IV
1765–1837 · died June 20
King of the United Kingdom from 1830 to 1837
Charles Fourier
1772–1837 · died October 10
French utopian socialist and philosopher (1772–1837)
Georg Büchner
1813–1837 · died February 19
German dramatist (1813–1837)
John Constable
1776–1837 · died March 31
English painter (1776–1837)
Gustav IV Adolf
1778–1837 · died February 7
King of Sweden from 1792 to 1809
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
1778–1837 · died October 17
Austrian composer and pianist (1778–1837)
Mariano José de Larra
1809–1837 · died February 13
Spanish romantic writer

Sources

  1. 1837 — Wikipedia. Births, deaths and events of the year
  2. Hokusai — Wikipedia
  3. Andrew Jackson — Wikipedia
  4. John Quincy Adams — Wikipedia
  5. Carl Friedrich Gauss — Wikipedia
  6. Niccolò Paganini — Wikipedia
  7. Jacob Grimm — Wikipedia
  8. Arthur Schopenhauer — Wikipedia
  9. Michael Faraday — Wikipedia
  10. Charles Babbage — Wikipedia
  11. Mary Shelley — Wikipedia
  12. Heinrich Heine — Wikipedia
  13. Alexander Pushkin — Wikipedia
  14. Honoré de Balzac — Wikipedia
  15. Victor Hugo — Wikipedia
  16. Alexandre Dumas — Wikipedia
  17. Ralph Waldo Emerson — Wikipedia
  18. George Sand — Wikipedia
  19. Hans Christian Andersen — Wikipedia
  20. Abraham Lincoln — Wikipedia
  21. Charles Darwin — Wikipedia
  22. Edgar Allan Poe — Wikipedia
  23. Frédéric Chopin — Wikipedia
  24. Robert Schumann — Wikipedia
  25. Franz Liszt — Wikipedia
  26. Charles Dickens — Wikipedia
  27. Giuseppe Verdi — Wikipedia
  28. Richard Wagner — Wikipedia
  29. Søren Kierkegaard — Wikipedia
  30. Otto von Bismarck — Wikipedia
  31. Ada Lovelace — Wikipedia
  32. Charlotte Brontë — Wikipedia
  33. Emily Brontë — Wikipedia
  34. Frederick Douglass — Wikipedia
  35. Karl Marx — Wikipedia
  36. Herman Melville — Wikipedia
  37. Queen Victoria — Wikipedia
  38. Walt Whitman — Wikipedia
  39. Susan B. Anthony — Wikipedia
  40. Florence Nightingale — Wikipedia
  41. Friedrich Engels — Wikipedia
  42. Fyodor Dostoevsky — Wikipedia
  43. Charles Baudelaire — Wikipedia
  44. Harriet Tubman — Wikipedia
  45. Louis Pasteur — Wikipedia
  46. Gregor Mendel — Wikipedia
  47. Jules Verne — Wikipedia
  48. Leo Tolstoy — Wikipedia
  49. Henrik Ibsen — Wikipedia
  50. Emily Dickinson — Wikipedia
  51. Sitting Bull — Wikipedia
  52. James Clerk Maxwell — Wikipedia
  53. Alfred Nobel — Wikipedia
  54. Dmitri Mendeleev — Wikipedia
  55. Mark Twain — Wikipedia
  56. Andrew Carnegie — Wikipedia
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