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Who Was Alive in 1868

70 of 492 historical figures were alive in 1868

Charles Babbage
Charles BabbageAge 77
1791–1871 · Science & Invention
Father of the computer, designed the Analytical Engine
 Victor Hugo
Victor HugoAge 66
1802–1885 · Literature
Les Misérables, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
 Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre DumasAge 66
1802–1870 · Literature
Author of The Three Musketeers
 Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo EmersonAge 65
1803–1882 · Philosophy & Thought
Transcendentalist essayist of Self-Reliance
 George Sand
George SandAge 64
1804–1876 · Literature
French novelist famous under a male pen name
 Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian AndersenAge 63
1805–1875 · Literature
The Little Mermaid, fairy tales
 Charles Darwin
Charles DarwinAge 59
1809–1882 · Science & Invention
Theory of evolution by natural selection
 Franz Liszt
Franz LisztAge 57
1811–1886 · Music
Piano virtuoso, composer of the Hungarian Rhapsodies
 Charles Dickens
Charles DickensAge 56
1812–1870 · Literature
A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist
 Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe VerdiAge 55
1813–1901 · Music
La Traviata, Aida — operatic master
 Richard Wagner
Richard WagnerAge 55
1813–1883 · Music
Ring Cycle, revolutionary opera
 Otto von Bismarck
Otto von BismarckAge 53
1815–1898 · Politics & Leadership
Unified Germany, the Iron Chancellor
 Frederick Douglass
Frederick DouglassAge 50
1818–1895 · Activism & Social Change
Abolitionist, orator, writer
 Karl Marx
Karl MarxAge 50
1818–1883 · Philosophy & Thought
Das Kapital, Communist Manifesto
 Herman Melville
Herman MelvilleAge 49
1819–1891 · Literature
Moby-Dick
 Queen Victoria
Queen VictoriaAge 49
1819–1901 · Politics & Leadership
Longest-reigning British monarch of her era
 Walt Whitman
Walt WhitmanAge 49
1819–1892 · Literature
Leaves of Grass, father of free verse
 Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. AnthonyAge 48
1820–1906 · Activism & Social Change
Women's suffrage pioneer
 Florence Nightingale
Florence NightingaleAge 48
1820–1910 · Activism & Social Change
Founder of modern nursing
 Friedrich Engels
Friedrich EngelsAge 48
1820–1895 · Philosophy & Thought
Co-author of The Communist Manifesto with Marx
 Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor DostoevskyAge 47
1821–1881 · Literature
Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov
 Harriet Tubman
Harriet TubmanAge about 46
1822–1913 · Activism & Social Change
Underground Railroad conductor
 Louis Pasteur
Louis PasteurAge 46
1822–1895 · Science & Invention
Germ theory, pasteurization
 Gregor Mendel
Gregor MendelAge 46
1822–1884 · Science & Invention
Father of genetics
 Jules Verne
Jules VerneAge 40
1828–1905 · Literature
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
 Leo Tolstoy
Leo TolstoyAge 40
1828–1910 · Literature
War and Peace, Anna Karenina
 Henrik Ibsen
Henrik IbsenAge 40
1828–1906 · Literature
Norwegian playwright of A Doll's House
 Emily Dickinson
Emily DickinsonAge 38
1830–1886 · Literature
Reclusive poetic genius
 Sitting Bull
Sitting BullAge about 37
1831–1890 · Politics & Leadership
Lakota leader who defeated Custer at Little Bighorn
 James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk MaxwellAge 37
1831–1879 · Science & Invention
Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism
 Alfred Nobel
Alfred NobelAge 35
1833–1896 · Science & Invention
Invented dynamite, founded Nobel Prizes
 Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri MendeleevAge 34
1834–1907 · Science & Invention
Created the periodic table of elements
 Mark Twain
Mark TwainAge 33
1835–1910 · Literature
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
 Andrew Carnegie
Andrew CarnegieAge 33
1835–1919 · Business & Industry
Steel magnate, philanthropist
 John D. Rockefeller
John D. RockefellerAge 29
1839–1937 · Business & Industry
Standard Oil tycoon, among the richest Americans in history
 Claude Monet
Claude MonetAge 28
1840–1926 · Art
Water Lilies, father of Impressionism
 Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Pyotr TchaikovskyAge 28
1840–1893 · Music
Swan Lake, The Nutcracker
 Émile Zola
Émile ZolaAge 28
1840–1902 · Literature
French novelist who wrote J'Accuse
 Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste RenoirAge 27
1841–1919 · Art
Impressionist painter of joyful scenes
 Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich NietzscheAge 24
1844–1900 · Philosophy & Thought
"God is dead," Beyond Good and Evil
 Sarah Bernhardt
Sarah BernhardtAge 24
1844–1923 · Film & Entertainment
French stage actress of worldwide fame
 Thomas Edison
Thomas EdisonAge 21
1847–1931 · Science & Invention
Light bulb, phonograph, 1000+ patents
 Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham BellAge 21
1847–1922 · Science & Invention
Invented the telephone
 Paul Gauguin
Paul GauguinAge 20
1848–1903 · Art
Post-Impressionist painter of Tahiti
 Antoni Gaudí
Antoni GaudíAge 16
1852–1926 · Art
Sagrada Família architect
 Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van GoghAge 15
1853–1890 · Art
Starry Night, post-Impressionist icon
 Oscar Wilde
Oscar WildeAge 14
1854–1900 · Literature
The Picture of Dorian Gray, wit and charm
 Sigmund Freud
Sigmund FreudAge 12
1856–1939 · Philosophy & Thought
Father of psychoanalysis
 Nikola Tesla
Nikola TeslaAge 12
1856–1943 · Science & Invention
AC electricity, visionary inventor
 Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow WilsonAge 12
1856–1924 · Politics & Leadership
28th US President, League of Nations
 George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard ShawAge 12
1856–1950 · Literature
Irish playwright of Pygmalion
 Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore RooseveltAge 10
1858–1919 · Politics & Leadership
26th US President, Rough Rider
 Emmeline Pankhurst
Emmeline PankhurstAge 10
1858–1928 · Activism & Social Change
British suffragette leader
 Max Planck
Max PlanckAge 10
1858–1947 · Science & Invention
Father of quantum theory
 Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan DoyleAge 9
1859–1930 · Literature
Creator of Sherlock Holmes
 Anton Chekhov
Anton ChekhovAge 8
1860–1904 · Literature
Russian playwright and short-story master
 Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath TagoreAge 7
1861–1941 · Literature
First non-European Nobel laureate in Literature
 Gustav Klimt
Gustav KlimtAge 6
1862–1918 · Art
The Kiss, Art Nouveau master
 Claude Debussy
Claude DebussyAge 6
1862–1918 · Music
Clair de Lune, Impressionist music
 David Hilbert
David HilbertAge 6
1862–1943 · Science & Invention
German mathematician of Hilbert's problems
 Henry Ford
Henry FordAge 5
1863–1947 · Business & Industry
Assembly line, Model T automobile
 Edvard Munch
Edvard MunchAge 5
1863–1944 · Art
The Scream
 Max Weber
Max WeberAge 4
1864–1920 · Philosophy & Thought
A founder of modern sociology
 Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard KiplingAge 3
1865–1936 · Literature
Author of The Jungle Book, Nobel laureate
 H.G. Wells
H.G. WellsAge 2
1866–1946 · Literature
The War of the Worlds, science fiction pioneer
 Sun Yat-sen
Sun Yat-senAge 2
1866–1925 · Politics & Leadership
Father of the Republic of China
 Marie Curie
Marie CurieAge 1
1867–1934 · Science & Invention
Radioactivity, first woman Nobel laureate
 Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd WrightAge 1
1867–1959 · Art
American architect of Fallingwater
 Scott Joplin
Scott JoplinAge 0
1868–1917 · Music
King of Ragtime
 Maxim Gorky
Maxim GorkyAge 0
1868–1936 · Literature
Russian writer of The Lower Depths

Born in 1868

Maxim Gorky
Maxim Gorky
1868–1936 · Literature
Russian writer of The Lower Depths
 Scott Joplin
Scott Joplin
1868–1917 · Music
King of Ragtime

Also Born in 1868

Maxim Gorky
1868–1936 · born March 28
Russian and Soviet writer (1868–1936)
Nicholas II
1868–1918 · born May 18
Emperor of Russia from 1894 to 1917
Fritz Haber
1868–1934 · born December 9
German chemist (1868–1934)
Emanuel Lasker
1868–1941 · born December 24
German chess player (1868–1941)
Karl Landsteiner
1868–1943 · born June 14
Austrian-American immunologist (1868–1943)
Robert Falcon Scott
1868–1912 · born June 6
British Antarctic explorer (1868–1912)
Arnold Sommerfeld
1868–1951 · born December 5
German theoretical physicist (1868–1951)
Paul Claudel
1868–1955 · born August 6
French diplomat, poet and playwright (1868–1955)
W. E. B. Du Bois
1868–1963 · born February 23
American sociologist and activist (1868–1963)
Miklós Horthy
1868–1957 · born June 18
Regent of Hungary from 1920 to 1944
Edmond Rostand
1868–1918 · born April 1
French poet and dramatist (1868–1918)
Henrietta Swan Leavitt
1868–1921 · born July 4
American astronomer (1868–1921)

Also Died in 1868

James Buchanan
1791–1868 · died June 1
President of the United States from 1857 to 1861
Gioachino Rossini
1792–1868 · died November 13
Italian opera composer (1792–1868)
Léon Foucault
1819–1868 · died February 11
French physicist (1819–1868)
August Ferdinand Möbius
1790–1868 · died September 26
German mathematician and astronomer (1790–1868)
Ludwig I of Bavaria
1786–1868 · died February 29
King of Bavaria from 1825 to 1848
August Schleicher
1821–1868 · died December 6
German philologist (1821–1868)
Julius Plücker
1801–1868 · died May 22
German mathematician and physicist (1801–1868)
Kit Carson
1809–1868 · died May 23
American frontiersman and guide (1809–1868)
Franz Berwald
1796–1868 · died April 3
Swedish Romantic composer (1796 – 1868)

Sources

  1. 1868 — Wikipedia. Births, deaths and events of the year
  2. Charles Babbage — Wikipedia
  3. Victor Hugo — Wikipedia
  4. Alexandre Dumas — Wikipedia
  5. Ralph Waldo Emerson — Wikipedia
  6. George Sand — Wikipedia
  7. Hans Christian Andersen — Wikipedia
  8. Charles Darwin — Wikipedia
  9. Franz Liszt — Wikipedia
  10. Charles Dickens — Wikipedia
  11. Giuseppe Verdi — Wikipedia
  12. Richard Wagner — Wikipedia
  13. Otto von Bismarck — Wikipedia
  14. Frederick Douglass — Wikipedia
  15. Karl Marx — Wikipedia
  16. Herman Melville — Wikipedia
  17. Queen Victoria — Wikipedia
  18. Walt Whitman — Wikipedia
  19. Susan B. Anthony — Wikipedia
  20. Florence Nightingale — Wikipedia
  21. Friedrich Engels — Wikipedia
  22. Fyodor Dostoevsky — Wikipedia
  23. Harriet Tubman — Wikipedia
  24. Louis Pasteur — Wikipedia
  25. Gregor Mendel — Wikipedia
  26. Jules Verne — Wikipedia
  27. Leo Tolstoy — Wikipedia
  28. Henrik Ibsen — Wikipedia
  29. Emily Dickinson — Wikipedia
  30. Sitting Bull — Wikipedia
  31. James Clerk Maxwell — Wikipedia
  32. Alfred Nobel — Wikipedia
  33. Dmitri Mendeleev — Wikipedia
  34. Mark Twain — Wikipedia
  35. Andrew Carnegie — Wikipedia
  36. John D. Rockefeller — Wikipedia
  37. Claude Monet — Wikipedia
  38. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Wikipedia
  39. Émile Zola — Wikipedia
  40. Pierre-Auguste Renoir — Wikipedia
  41. Friedrich Nietzsche — Wikipedia
  42. Sarah Bernhardt — Wikipedia
  43. Thomas Edison — Wikipedia
  44. Alexander Graham Bell — Wikipedia
  45. Paul Gauguin — Wikipedia
  46. Antoni Gaudí — Wikipedia
  47. Vincent van Gogh — Wikipedia
  48. Oscar Wilde — Wikipedia
  49. Sigmund Freud — Wikipedia
  50. Nikola Tesla — Wikipedia
  51. Woodrow Wilson — Wikipedia
  52. George Bernard Shaw — Wikipedia
  53. Theodore Roosevelt — Wikipedia
  54. Emmeline Pankhurst — Wikipedia
  55. Max Planck — Wikipedia
  56. Arthur Conan Doyle — Wikipedia
  57. Anton Chekhov — Wikipedia
  58. Rabindranath Tagore — Wikipedia
  59. Gustav Klimt — Wikipedia
  60. Claude Debussy — Wikipedia
  61. David Hilbert — Wikipedia
  62. Henry Ford — Wikipedia
  63. Edvard Munch — Wikipedia
  64. Max Weber — Wikipedia
  65. Rudyard Kipling — Wikipedia
  66. H. G. Wells — Wikipedia
  67. Sun Yat-sen — Wikipedia
  68. Marie Curie — Wikipedia
  69. Frank Lloyd Wright — Wikipedia
  70. Scott Joplin — Wikipedia
  71. Maxim Gorky — Wikipedia
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