Who Was Alive in 1862

64 of 492 historical figures were alive in 1862

Jacob GrimmAge 77

1785–1863 · Literature

Grimm's Fairy Tales

Michael FaradayAge 71

1791–1867 · Science & Invention

Electromagnetic induction

Charles BabbageAge 71

1791–1871 · Science & Invention

Father of the computer, designed the Analytical Engine

Victor HugoAge 60

1802–1885 · Literature

Les Misérables, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

Alexandre DumasAge 60

1802–1870 · Literature

Author of The Three Musketeers

Ralph Waldo EmersonAge 59

1803–1882 · Philosophy & Thought

Transcendentalist essayist of Self-Reliance

George SandAge 58

1804–1876 · Literature

French novelist famous under a male pen name

Hans Christian AndersenAge 57

1805–1875 · Literature

The Little Mermaid, fairy tales

Abraham LincolnAge 53

1809–1865 · Politics & Leadership

16th US President, ended slavery

Charles DarwinAge 53

1809–1882 · Science & Invention

Theory of evolution by natural selection

Franz LisztAge 51

1811–1886 · Music

Piano virtuoso, composer of the Hungarian Rhapsodies

Charles DickensAge 50

1812–1870 · Literature

A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist

Giuseppe VerdiAge 49

1813–1901 · Music

La Traviata, Aida — operatic master

Richard WagnerAge 49

1813–1883 · Music

Ring Cycle, revolutionary opera

Otto von BismarckAge 47

1815–1898 · Politics & Leadership

Unified Germany, the Iron Chancellor

Frederick DouglassAge 44

1818–1895 · Activism & Social Change

Abolitionist, orator, writer

Karl MarxAge 44

1818–1883 · Philosophy & Thought

Das Kapital, Communist Manifesto

Herman MelvilleAge 43

1819–1891 · Literature

Moby-Dick

Queen VictoriaAge 43

1819–1901 · Politics & Leadership

Longest-reigning British monarch of her era

Walt WhitmanAge 43

1819–1892 · Literature

Leaves of Grass, father of free verse

Susan B. AnthonyAge 42

1820–1906 · Activism & Social Change

Women's suffrage pioneer

Florence NightingaleAge 42

1820–1910 · Activism & Social Change

Founder of modern nursing

Friedrich EngelsAge 42

1820–1895 · Philosophy & Thought

Co-author of The Communist Manifesto with Marx

Fyodor DostoevskyAge 41

1821–1881 · Literature

Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov

Charles BaudelaireAge 41

1821–1867 · Literature

French poet of Les Fleurs du mal

Harriet TubmanAge about 40

1822–1913 · Activism & Social Change

Underground Railroad conductor

Louis PasteurAge 40

1822–1895 · Science & Invention

Germ theory, pasteurization

Gregor MendelAge 40

1822–1884 · Science & Invention

Father of genetics

Jules VerneAge 34

1828–1905 · Literature

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Leo TolstoyAge 34

1828–1910 · Literature

War and Peace, Anna Karenina

Henrik IbsenAge 34

1828–1906 · Literature

Norwegian playwright of A Doll's House

Emily DickinsonAge 32

1830–1886 · Literature

Reclusive poetic genius

Sitting BullAge about 31

1831–1890 · Politics & Leadership

Lakota leader who defeated Custer at Little Bighorn

James Clerk MaxwellAge 31

1831–1879 · Science & Invention

Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism

Alfred NobelAge 29

1833–1896 · Science & Invention

Invented dynamite, founded Nobel Prizes

Dmitri MendeleevAge 28

1834–1907 · Science & Invention

Created the periodic table of elements

Mark TwainAge 27

1835–1910 · Literature

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Andrew CarnegieAge 27

1835–1919 · Business & Industry

Steel magnate, philanthropist

John D. RockefellerAge 23

1839–1937 · Business & Industry

Standard Oil tycoon, among the richest Americans in history

Claude MonetAge 22

1840–1926 · Art

Water Lilies, father of Impressionism

Pyotr TchaikovskyAge 22

1840–1893 · Music

Swan Lake, The Nutcracker

Émile ZolaAge 22

1840–1902 · Literature

French novelist who wrote J'Accuse

Pierre-Auguste RenoirAge 21

1841–1919 · Art

Impressionist painter of joyful scenes

Friedrich NietzscheAge 18

1844–1900 · Philosophy & Thought

"God is dead," Beyond Good and Evil

Sarah BernhardtAge 18

1844–1923 · Film & Entertainment

French stage actress of worldwide fame

Thomas EdisonAge 15

1847–1931 · Science & Invention

Light bulb, phonograph, 1000+ patents

Alexander Graham BellAge 15

1847–1922 · Science & Invention

Invented the telephone

Paul GauguinAge 14

1848–1903 · Art

Post-Impressionist painter of Tahiti

Antoni GaudíAge 10

1852–1926 · Art

Sagrada Família architect

Vincent van GoghAge 9

1853–1890 · Art

Starry Night, post-Impressionist icon

Oscar WildeAge 8

1854–1900 · Literature

The Picture of Dorian Gray, wit and charm

Sigmund FreudAge 6

1856–1939 · Philosophy & Thought

Father of psychoanalysis

Nikola TeslaAge 6

1856–1943 · Science & Invention

AC electricity, visionary inventor

Woodrow WilsonAge 6

1856–1924 · Politics & Leadership

28th US President, League of Nations

George Bernard ShawAge 6

1856–1950 · Literature

Irish playwright of Pygmalion

Theodore RooseveltAge 4

1858–1919 · Politics & Leadership

26th US President, Rough Rider

Emmeline PankhurstAge 4

1858–1928 · Activism & Social Change

British suffragette leader

Max PlanckAge 4

1858–1947 · Science & Invention

Father of quantum theory

Arthur Conan DoyleAge 3

1859–1930 · Literature

Creator of Sherlock Holmes

Anton ChekhovAge 2

1860–1904 · Literature

Russian playwright and short-story master

Rabindranath TagoreAge 1

1861–1941 · Literature

First non-European Nobel laureate in Literature

Gustav KlimtAge 0

1862–1918 · Art

The Kiss, Art Nouveau master

Claude DebussyAge 0

1862–1918 · Music

Clair de Lune, Impressionist music

David HilbertAge 0

1862–1943 · Science & Invention

German mathematician of Hilbert's problems

Born in 1862

David Hilbert

1862–1943 · Science & Invention

German mathematician of Hilbert's problems

Claude Debussy

1862–1918 · Music

Clair de Lune, Impressionist music

Gustav Klimt

1862–1918 · Art

The Kiss, Art Nouveau master

Also Born in 1862

David Hilbert

1862–1943 · born January 23

German mathematician (1862–1943)

Maurice Maeterlinck

1862–1949 · born August 29

Belgian playwright and essayist (1862–1949)

Gerhart Hauptmann

1862–1946 · born November 15

German author (1862–1946)

William Henry Bragg

1862–1942 · born July 2

British X-ray crystallographer (1862–1942)

Philipp Lenard

1862–1947 · born June 7

German physicist (1862–1947)

O. Henry

1862–1910 · born September 11

American writer (1862–1910)

Edith Wharton

1862–1937 · born January 24

American writer and designer (1862–1937)

Arthur Schnitzler

1862–1931 · born May 15

Austrian author and dramatist (1862–1931)

Aristide Briand

1862–1932 · born March 28

French statesman (1862–1932)

Allvar Gullstrand

1862–1930 · born June 5

Swedish ophthalmologist and optician

Siegbert Tarrasch

1862–1934 · born March 5

German chess player (1862–1934)

Emilio Salgari

1862–1911 · born August 21

Italian writer (1862–1911)

Also Died in 1862

Martin Van Buren

1782–1862 · died July 24

President of the United States from 1837 to 1841

Henry David Thoreau

1817–1862 · died May 6

American philosopher (1817–1862)

John Tyler

1790–1862 · died January 18

President of the United States from 1841 to 1845

Samuel Colt

1814–1862 · died January 10

American industrialist and inventor (1814–1862)

Jean-Baptiste Biot

1774–1862 · died February 3

French physicist (1774–1862)

Božena Němcová

1820–1862 · died January 21

Czech writer

Ludwig Uhland

1787–1862 · died November 13

German poet and politician (1787–1862)

Mikhail Ostrogradsky

1801–1862 · died January 1

Ukrainian-Russian mathematician

Sources

1862 — Wikipedia. Births, deaths and events of the year
Jacob Grimm — Wikipedia
Michael Faraday — Wikipedia
Charles Babbage — Wikipedia
Victor Hugo — Wikipedia
Alexandre Dumas — Wikipedia
Ralph Waldo Emerson — Wikipedia
George Sand — Wikipedia
Hans Christian Andersen — Wikipedia
Abraham Lincoln — Wikipedia
Charles Darwin — Wikipedia
Franz Liszt — Wikipedia
Charles Dickens — Wikipedia
Giuseppe Verdi — Wikipedia
Richard Wagner — Wikipedia
Otto von Bismarck — Wikipedia
Frederick Douglass — Wikipedia
Karl Marx — Wikipedia
Herman Melville — Wikipedia
Queen Victoria — Wikipedia
Walt Whitman — Wikipedia
Susan B. Anthony — Wikipedia
Florence Nightingale — Wikipedia
Friedrich Engels — Wikipedia
Fyodor Dostoevsky — Wikipedia
Charles Baudelaire — Wikipedia
Harriet Tubman — Wikipedia
Louis Pasteur — Wikipedia
Gregor Mendel — Wikipedia
Jules Verne — Wikipedia
Leo Tolstoy — Wikipedia
Henrik Ibsen — Wikipedia
Emily Dickinson — Wikipedia
Sitting Bull — Wikipedia
James Clerk Maxwell — Wikipedia
Alfred Nobel — Wikipedia
Dmitri Mendeleev — Wikipedia
Mark Twain — Wikipedia
Andrew Carnegie — Wikipedia
John D. Rockefeller — Wikipedia
Claude Monet — Wikipedia
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Wikipedia
Émile Zola — Wikipedia
Pierre-Auguste Renoir — Wikipedia
Friedrich Nietzsche — Wikipedia
Sarah Bernhardt — Wikipedia
Thomas Edison — Wikipedia
Alexander Graham Bell — Wikipedia
Paul Gauguin — Wikipedia
Antoni Gaudí — Wikipedia
Vincent van Gogh — Wikipedia
Oscar Wilde — Wikipedia
Sigmund Freud — Wikipedia
Nikola Tesla — Wikipedia
Woodrow Wilson — Wikipedia
George Bernard Shaw — Wikipedia
Theodore Roosevelt — Wikipedia
Emmeline Pankhurst — Wikipedia
Max Planck — Wikipedia
Arthur Conan Doyle — Wikipedia
Anton Chekhov — Wikipedia
Rabindranath Tagore — Wikipedia
Gustav Klimt — Wikipedia
Claude Debussy — Wikipedia
David Hilbert — Wikipedia

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