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Who Was Alive in 1841

58 of 492 historical figures were alive in 1841

Hokusai
HokusaiAge 81
1760–1849 · Art
The Great Wave, Japanese master printmaker
 Andrew Jackson
Andrew JacksonAge 74
1767–1845 · Politics & Leadership
Seventh President of the United States
 John Quincy Adams
John Quincy AdamsAge 74
1767–1848 · Politics & Leadership
Sixth President of the United States
 Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich GaussAge 64
1777–1855 · Science & Invention
Mathematician called the Prince of Mathematicians
 Jacob Grimm
Jacob GrimmAge 56
1785–1863 · Literature
Grimm's Fairy Tales
 Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur SchopenhauerAge 53
1788–1860 · Philosophy & Thought
German philosopher of pessimism
 Michael Faraday
Michael FaradayAge 50
1791–1867 · Science & Invention
Electromagnetic induction
 Charles Babbage
Charles BabbageAge 50
1791–1871 · Science & Invention
Father of the computer, designed the Analytical Engine
 Mary Shelley
Mary ShelleyAge 44
1797–1851 · Literature
Author of Frankenstein
 Heinrich Heine
Heinrich HeineAge 44
1797–1856 · Literature
German Romantic poet
 Honoré de Balzac
Honoré de BalzacAge 42
1799–1850 · Literature
French novelist of La Comédie humaine
 Victor Hugo
Victor HugoAge 39
1802–1885 · Literature
Les Misérables, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
 Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre DumasAge 39
1802–1870 · Literature
Author of The Three Musketeers
 Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo EmersonAge 38
1803–1882 · Philosophy & Thought
Transcendentalist essayist of Self-Reliance
 George Sand
George SandAge 37
1804–1876 · Literature
French novelist famous under a male pen name
 Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian AndersenAge 36
1805–1875 · Literature
The Little Mermaid, fairy tales
 Abraham Lincoln
Abraham LincolnAge 32
1809–1865 · Politics & Leadership
16th US President, ended slavery
 Charles Darwin
Charles DarwinAge 32
1809–1882 · Science & Invention
Theory of evolution by natural selection
 Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan PoeAge 32
1809–1849 · Literature
Master of the macabre, The Raven
 Frédéric Chopin
Frédéric ChopinAge 31
1810–1849 · Music
Romantic piano virtuoso
 Robert Schumann
Robert SchumannAge 31
1810–1856 · Music
Romantic composer and influential music critic
 Franz Liszt
Franz LisztAge 30
1811–1886 · Music
Piano virtuoso, composer of the Hungarian Rhapsodies
 Charles Dickens
Charles DickensAge 29
1812–1870 · Literature
A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist
 Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe VerdiAge 28
1813–1901 · Music
La Traviata, Aida — operatic master
 Richard Wagner
Richard WagnerAge 28
1813–1883 · Music
Ring Cycle, revolutionary opera
 Søren Kierkegaard
Søren KierkegaardAge 28
1813–1855 · Philosophy & Thought
Danish philosopher, father of existentialism
 Otto von Bismarck
Otto von BismarckAge 26
1815–1898 · Politics & Leadership
Unified Germany, the Iron Chancellor
 Ada Lovelace
Ada LovelaceAge 26
1815–1852 · Science & Invention
Often called the first computer programmer
 Charlotte Brontë
Charlotte BrontëAge 25
1816–1855 · Literature
Author of Jane Eyre, eldest Brontë sister
 Emily Brontë
Emily BrontëAge 23
1818–1848 · Literature
Wuthering Heights
 Frederick Douglass
Frederick DouglassAge 23
1818–1895 · Activism & Social Change
Abolitionist, orator, writer
 Karl Marx
Karl MarxAge 23
1818–1883 · Philosophy & Thought
Das Kapital, Communist Manifesto
 Herman Melville
Herman MelvilleAge 22
1819–1891 · Literature
Moby-Dick
 Queen Victoria
Queen VictoriaAge 22
1819–1901 · Politics & Leadership
Longest-reigning British monarch of her era
 Walt Whitman
Walt WhitmanAge 22
1819–1892 · Literature
Leaves of Grass, father of free verse
 Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. AnthonyAge 21
1820–1906 · Activism & Social Change
Women's suffrage pioneer
 Florence Nightingale
Florence NightingaleAge 21
1820–1910 · Activism & Social Change
Founder of modern nursing
 Friedrich Engels
Friedrich EngelsAge 21
1820–1895 · Philosophy & Thought
Co-author of The Communist Manifesto with Marx
 Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor DostoevskyAge 20
1821–1881 · Literature
Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov
 Charles Baudelaire
Charles BaudelaireAge 20
1821–1867 · Literature
French poet of Les Fleurs du mal
 Harriet Tubman
Harriet TubmanAge about 19
1822–1913 · Activism & Social Change
Underground Railroad conductor
 Louis Pasteur
Louis PasteurAge 19
1822–1895 · Science & Invention
Germ theory, pasteurization
 Gregor Mendel
Gregor MendelAge 19
1822–1884 · Science & Invention
Father of genetics
 Jules Verne
Jules VerneAge 13
1828–1905 · Literature
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
 Leo Tolstoy
Leo TolstoyAge 13
1828–1910 · Literature
War and Peace, Anna Karenina
 Henrik Ibsen
Henrik IbsenAge 13
1828–1906 · Literature
Norwegian playwright of A Doll's House
 Emily Dickinson
Emily DickinsonAge 11
1830–1886 · Literature
Reclusive poetic genius
 Sitting Bull
Sitting BullAge about 10
1831–1890 · Politics & Leadership
Lakota leader who defeated Custer at Little Bighorn
 James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk MaxwellAge 10
1831–1879 · Science & Invention
Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism
 Alfred Nobel
Alfred NobelAge 8
1833–1896 · Science & Invention
Invented dynamite, founded Nobel Prizes
 Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri MendeleevAge 7
1834–1907 · Science & Invention
Created the periodic table of elements
 Mark Twain
Mark TwainAge 6
1835–1910 · Literature
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
 Andrew Carnegie
Andrew CarnegieAge 6
1835–1919 · Business & Industry
Steel magnate, philanthropist
 John D. Rockefeller
John D. RockefellerAge 2
1839–1937 · Business & Industry
Standard Oil tycoon, among the richest Americans in history
 Claude Monet
Claude MonetAge 1
1840–1926 · Art
Water Lilies, father of Impressionism
 Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Pyotr TchaikovskyAge 1
1840–1893 · Music
Swan Lake, The Nutcracker
 Émile Zola
Émile ZolaAge 1
1840–1902 · Literature
French novelist who wrote J'Accuse
 Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste RenoirAge 0
1841–1919 · Art
Impressionist painter of joyful scenes

Born in 1841

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
1841–1919 · Art
Impressionist painter of joyful scenes

Also Born in 1841

Antonín Dvořák
1841–1904 · born September 8
Czech composer (1841–1904)
Edward VII
1841–1910 · born November 9
King of the United Kingdom from 1901 to 1910
Georges Clemenceau
1841–1929 · born September 28
Prime Minister of France (1906–1909, 1917–1920)
Berthe Morisot
1841–1895 · born January 14
French artist (1841–1895)
Itō Hirobumi
1841–1909 · born October 16
Japanese statesman (1841–1909)
Emil Theodor Kocher
1841–1917 · born August 25
Swiss physician and Nobel laureate (1841–1917)
Frédéric Bazille
1841–1870 · born December 6
French painter (1841–1870)
Félix Faure
1841–1899 · born January 30
President of France from 1895 to 1899
Ferdinand Buisson
1841–1932 · born December 20
French educational bureaucrat, pacifist and politician
Otto Wagner
1841–1918 · born July 13
Austrian architect (1841–1918)
Eliza Orzeszkowa
1841–1910 · born June 6
Polish novelist (1841–1910)
Nicholas I of Montenegro
1841–1921 · born October 7
Last monarch of Montenegro from 1860 to 1918

Also Died in 1841

William Henry Harrison
1773–1841 · died April 4
President of the United States in 1841
Mikhail Lermontov
1814–1841 · died July 27
Russian writer, poet and painter (1814–1841)
Augustin Pyramus de Candolle
1778–1841 · died September 9
Swiss botanist (1778–1841)
Félix Savart
1791–1841 · died March 16
French physicist

Sources

  1. 1841 — 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. Jacob Grimm — Wikipedia
  7. Arthur Schopenhauer — Wikipedia
  8. Michael Faraday — Wikipedia
  9. Charles Babbage — Wikipedia
  10. Mary Shelley — Wikipedia
  11. Heinrich Heine — Wikipedia
  12. Honoré de Balzac — Wikipedia
  13. Victor Hugo — Wikipedia
  14. Alexandre Dumas — Wikipedia
  15. Ralph Waldo Emerson — Wikipedia
  16. George Sand — Wikipedia
  17. Hans Christian Andersen — Wikipedia
  18. Abraham Lincoln — Wikipedia
  19. Charles Darwin — Wikipedia
  20. Edgar Allan Poe — Wikipedia
  21. Frédéric Chopin — Wikipedia
  22. Robert Schumann — Wikipedia
  23. Franz Liszt — Wikipedia
  24. Charles Dickens — Wikipedia
  25. Giuseppe Verdi — Wikipedia
  26. Richard Wagner — Wikipedia
  27. Søren Kierkegaard — Wikipedia
  28. Otto von Bismarck — Wikipedia
  29. Ada Lovelace — Wikipedia
  30. Charlotte Brontë — Wikipedia
  31. Emily Brontë — Wikipedia
  32. Frederick Douglass — Wikipedia
  33. Karl Marx — Wikipedia
  34. Herman Melville — Wikipedia
  35. Queen Victoria — Wikipedia
  36. Walt Whitman — Wikipedia
  37. Susan B. Anthony — Wikipedia
  38. Florence Nightingale — Wikipedia
  39. Friedrich Engels — Wikipedia
  40. Fyodor Dostoevsky — Wikipedia
  41. Charles Baudelaire — Wikipedia
  42. Harriet Tubman — Wikipedia
  43. Louis Pasteur — Wikipedia
  44. Gregor Mendel — Wikipedia
  45. Jules Verne — Wikipedia
  46. Leo Tolstoy — Wikipedia
  47. Henrik Ibsen — Wikipedia
  48. Emily Dickinson — Wikipedia
  49. Sitting Bull — Wikipedia
  50. James Clerk Maxwell — Wikipedia
  51. Alfred Nobel — Wikipedia
  52. Dmitri Mendeleev — Wikipedia
  53. Mark Twain — Wikipedia
  54. Andrew Carnegie — Wikipedia
  55. John D. Rockefeller — Wikipedia
  56. Claude Monet — Wikipedia
  57. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Wikipedia
  58. Émile Zola — Wikipedia
  59. Pierre-Auguste Renoir — Wikipedia
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