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Who Was Alive in 1864

66 of 492 historical figures were alive in 1864

Michael Faraday
Michael FaradayAge 73
1791–1867 · Science & Invention
Electromagnetic induction
 Charles Babbage
Charles BabbageAge 73
1791–1871 · Science & Invention
Father of the computer, designed the Analytical Engine
 Victor Hugo
Victor HugoAge 62
1802–1885 · Literature
Les Misérables, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
 Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre DumasAge 62
1802–1870 · Literature
Author of The Three Musketeers
 Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo EmersonAge 61
1803–1882 · Philosophy & Thought
Transcendentalist essayist of Self-Reliance
 George Sand
George SandAge 60
1804–1876 · Literature
French novelist famous under a male pen name
 Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian AndersenAge 59
1805–1875 · Literature
The Little Mermaid, fairy tales
 Abraham Lincoln
Abraham LincolnAge 55
1809–1865 · Politics & Leadership
16th US President, ended slavery
 Charles Darwin
Charles DarwinAge 55
1809–1882 · Science & Invention
Theory of evolution by natural selection
 Franz Liszt
Franz LisztAge 53
1811–1886 · Music
Piano virtuoso, composer of the Hungarian Rhapsodies
 Charles Dickens
Charles DickensAge 52
1812–1870 · Literature
A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist
 Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe VerdiAge 51
1813–1901 · Music
La Traviata, Aida — operatic master
 Richard Wagner
Richard WagnerAge 51
1813–1883 · Music
Ring Cycle, revolutionary opera
 Otto von Bismarck
Otto von BismarckAge 49
1815–1898 · Politics & Leadership
Unified Germany, the Iron Chancellor
 Frederick Douglass
Frederick DouglassAge 46
1818–1895 · Activism & Social Change
Abolitionist, orator, writer
 Karl Marx
Karl MarxAge 46
1818–1883 · Philosophy & Thought
Das Kapital, Communist Manifesto
 Herman Melville
Herman MelvilleAge 45
1819–1891 · Literature
Moby-Dick
 Queen Victoria
Queen VictoriaAge 45
1819–1901 · Politics & Leadership
Longest-reigning British monarch of her era
 Walt Whitman
Walt WhitmanAge 45
1819–1892 · Literature
Leaves of Grass, father of free verse
 Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. AnthonyAge 44
1820–1906 · Activism & Social Change
Women's suffrage pioneer
 Florence Nightingale
Florence NightingaleAge 44
1820–1910 · Activism & Social Change
Founder of modern nursing
 Friedrich Engels
Friedrich EngelsAge 44
1820–1895 · Philosophy & Thought
Co-author of The Communist Manifesto with Marx
 Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor DostoevskyAge 43
1821–1881 · Literature
Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov
 Charles Baudelaire
Charles BaudelaireAge 43
1821–1867 · Literature
French poet of Les Fleurs du mal
 Harriet Tubman
Harriet TubmanAge about 42
1822–1913 · Activism & Social Change
Underground Railroad conductor
 Louis Pasteur
Louis PasteurAge 42
1822–1895 · Science & Invention
Germ theory, pasteurization
 Gregor Mendel
Gregor MendelAge 42
1822–1884 · Science & Invention
Father of genetics
 Jules Verne
Jules VerneAge 36
1828–1905 · Literature
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
 Leo Tolstoy
Leo TolstoyAge 36
1828–1910 · Literature
War and Peace, Anna Karenina
 Henrik Ibsen
Henrik IbsenAge 36
1828–1906 · Literature
Norwegian playwright of A Doll's House
 Emily Dickinson
Emily DickinsonAge 34
1830–1886 · Literature
Reclusive poetic genius
 Sitting Bull
Sitting BullAge about 33
1831–1890 · Politics & Leadership
Lakota leader who defeated Custer at Little Bighorn
 James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk MaxwellAge 33
1831–1879 · Science & Invention
Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism
 Alfred Nobel
Alfred NobelAge 31
1833–1896 · Science & Invention
Invented dynamite, founded Nobel Prizes
 Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri MendeleevAge 30
1834–1907 · Science & Invention
Created the periodic table of elements
 Mark Twain
Mark TwainAge 29
1835–1910 · Literature
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
 Andrew Carnegie
Andrew CarnegieAge 29
1835–1919 · Business & Industry
Steel magnate, philanthropist
 John D. Rockefeller
John D. RockefellerAge 25
1839–1937 · Business & Industry
Standard Oil tycoon, among the richest Americans in history
 Claude Monet
Claude MonetAge 24
1840–1926 · Art
Water Lilies, father of Impressionism
 Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Pyotr TchaikovskyAge 24
1840–1893 · Music
Swan Lake, The Nutcracker
 Émile Zola
Émile ZolaAge 24
1840–1902 · Literature
French novelist who wrote J'Accuse
 Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste RenoirAge 23
1841–1919 · Art
Impressionist painter of joyful scenes
 Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich NietzscheAge 20
1844–1900 · Philosophy & Thought
"God is dead," Beyond Good and Evil
 Sarah Bernhardt
Sarah BernhardtAge 20
1844–1923 · Film & Entertainment
French stage actress of worldwide fame
 Thomas Edison
Thomas EdisonAge 17
1847–1931 · Science & Invention
Light bulb, phonograph, 1000+ patents
 Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham BellAge 17
1847–1922 · Science & Invention
Invented the telephone
 Paul Gauguin
Paul GauguinAge 16
1848–1903 · Art
Post-Impressionist painter of Tahiti
 Antoni Gaudí
Antoni GaudíAge 12
1852–1926 · Art
Sagrada Família architect
 Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van GoghAge 11
1853–1890 · Art
Starry Night, post-Impressionist icon
 Oscar Wilde
Oscar WildeAge 10
1854–1900 · Literature
The Picture of Dorian Gray, wit and charm
 Sigmund Freud
Sigmund FreudAge 8
1856–1939 · Philosophy & Thought
Father of psychoanalysis
 Nikola Tesla
Nikola TeslaAge 8
1856–1943 · Science & Invention
AC electricity, visionary inventor
 Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow WilsonAge 8
1856–1924 · Politics & Leadership
28th US President, League of Nations
 George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard ShawAge 8
1856–1950 · Literature
Irish playwright of Pygmalion
 Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore RooseveltAge 6
1858–1919 · Politics & Leadership
26th US President, Rough Rider
 Emmeline Pankhurst
Emmeline PankhurstAge 6
1858–1928 · Activism & Social Change
British suffragette leader
 Max Planck
Max PlanckAge 6
1858–1947 · Science & Invention
Father of quantum theory
 Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan DoyleAge 5
1859–1930 · Literature
Creator of Sherlock Holmes
 Anton Chekhov
Anton ChekhovAge 4
1860–1904 · Literature
Russian playwright and short-story master
 Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath TagoreAge 3
1861–1941 · Literature
First non-European Nobel laureate in Literature
 Gustav Klimt
Gustav KlimtAge 2
1862–1918 · Art
The Kiss, Art Nouveau master
 Claude Debussy
Claude DebussyAge 2
1862–1918 · Music
Clair de Lune, Impressionist music
 David Hilbert
David HilbertAge 2
1862–1943 · Science & Invention
German mathematician of Hilbert's problems
 Henry Ford
Henry FordAge 1
1863–1947 · Business & Industry
Assembly line, Model T automobile
 Edvard Munch
Edvard MunchAge 1
1863–1944 · Art
The Scream
 Max Weber
Max WeberAge 0
1864–1920 · Philosophy & Thought
A founder of modern sociology

Born in 1864

Max Weber
Max Weber
1864–1920 · Philosophy & Thought
A founder of modern sociology

Also Born in 1864

Max Weber
1864–1920 · born April 21
German social scientist (1864–1920)
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
1864–1901 · born November 24
French painter and illustrator (1864–1901)
Wilhelm Wien
1864–1928 · born January 13
German physicist (1864–1928)
Richard Strauss
1864–1949 · born June 11
German composer and conductor (1864–1949)
Miguel de Unamuno
1864–1936 · born September 29
Spanish writer, philosopher and academic (1864–1936)
Erik Axel Karlfeldt
1864–1931 · born July 20
Swedish poet
Walther Nernst
1864–1941 · born June 25
German physical chemist (1864–1941)
Hermann Minkowski
1864–1909 · born June 22
German mathematician and physicist (1864–1909)
Jules Renard
1864–1910 · born February 22
French author (1864–1910)
Nellie Bly
1864–1922 · born May 5
American investigative journalist (1864–1922)
Eleftherios Venizelos
1864–1936 · born August 23
Prime Minister of Greece (1910–20; 1928–33)
Alois Alzheimer
1864–1915 · born June 14
German psychiatrist and neuropathologist (1864–1915)

Also Died in 1864

Nathaniel Hawthorne
1804–1864 · died May 19
American author (1804–1864)
George Boole
1815–1864 · died December 8
English mathematician and philosopher (1815–1864)
Vuk Karadžić
1787–1864 · died February 7
Serbian philologist and linguist (1787–1864)
Ferdinand Lassalle
1825–1864 · died August 31
German jurist and socialist (1825–1864)
Giacomo Meyerbeer
1791–1864 · died May 2
German-born opera composer (1791–1864)
Émile Clapeyron
1799–1864 · died January 28
French engineer and physicist (1799–1864)
John Hanning Speke
1827–1864 · died September 15
English explorer and army officer (1827–1864)
Hong Xiuquan
1814–1864 · died June 1
Chinese revolutionary (1814–1864)
Walter Savage Landor
1775–1864 · died September 17
English writer, poet, and activist (1775–1864)
Stephen Foster
1826–1864 · died January 13
American composer and songwriter (1826–1864)

Sources

  1. 1864 — Wikipedia. Births, deaths and events of the year
  2. Michael Faraday — Wikipedia
  3. Charles Babbage — Wikipedia
  4. Victor Hugo — Wikipedia
  5. Alexandre Dumas — Wikipedia
  6. Ralph Waldo Emerson — Wikipedia
  7. George Sand — Wikipedia
  8. Hans Christian Andersen — Wikipedia
  9. Abraham Lincoln — Wikipedia
  10. Charles Darwin — Wikipedia
  11. Franz Liszt — Wikipedia
  12. Charles Dickens — Wikipedia
  13. Giuseppe Verdi — Wikipedia
  14. Richard Wagner — Wikipedia
  15. Otto von Bismarck — Wikipedia
  16. Frederick Douglass — Wikipedia
  17. Karl Marx — Wikipedia
  18. Herman Melville — Wikipedia
  19. Queen Victoria — Wikipedia
  20. Walt Whitman — Wikipedia
  21. Susan B. Anthony — Wikipedia
  22. Florence Nightingale — Wikipedia
  23. Friedrich Engels — Wikipedia
  24. Fyodor Dostoevsky — Wikipedia
  25. Charles Baudelaire — Wikipedia
  26. Harriet Tubman — Wikipedia
  27. Louis Pasteur — Wikipedia
  28. Gregor Mendel — Wikipedia
  29. Jules Verne — Wikipedia
  30. Leo Tolstoy — Wikipedia
  31. Henrik Ibsen — Wikipedia
  32. Emily Dickinson — Wikipedia
  33. Sitting Bull — Wikipedia
  34. James Clerk Maxwell — Wikipedia
  35. Alfred Nobel — Wikipedia
  36. Dmitri Mendeleev — Wikipedia
  37. Mark Twain — Wikipedia
  38. Andrew Carnegie — Wikipedia
  39. John D. Rockefeller — Wikipedia
  40. Claude Monet — Wikipedia
  41. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Wikipedia
  42. Émile Zola — Wikipedia
  43. Pierre-Auguste Renoir — Wikipedia
  44. Friedrich Nietzsche — Wikipedia
  45. Sarah Bernhardt — Wikipedia
  46. Thomas Edison — Wikipedia
  47. Alexander Graham Bell — Wikipedia
  48. Paul Gauguin — Wikipedia
  49. Antoni Gaudí — Wikipedia
  50. Vincent van Gogh — Wikipedia
  51. Oscar Wilde — Wikipedia
  52. Sigmund Freud — Wikipedia
  53. Nikola Tesla — Wikipedia
  54. Woodrow Wilson — Wikipedia
  55. George Bernard Shaw — Wikipedia
  56. Theodore Roosevelt — Wikipedia
  57. Emmeline Pankhurst — Wikipedia
  58. Max Planck — Wikipedia
  59. Arthur Conan Doyle — Wikipedia
  60. Anton Chekhov — Wikipedia
  61. Rabindranath Tagore — Wikipedia
  62. Gustav Klimt — Wikipedia
  63. Claude Debussy — Wikipedia
  64. David Hilbert — Wikipedia
  65. Henry Ford — Wikipedia
  66. Edvard Munch — Wikipedia
  67. Max Weber — Wikipedia
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