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Who Was Alive in 1871

76 of 492 historical figures were alive in 1871

Charles Babbage
Charles BabbageAge 80
1791–1871 · Science & Invention
Father of the computer, designed the Analytical Engine
 Victor Hugo
Victor HugoAge 69
1802–1885 · Literature
Les Misérables, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
 Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo EmersonAge 68
1803–1882 · Philosophy & Thought
Transcendentalist essayist of Self-Reliance
 George Sand
George SandAge 67
1804–1876 · Literature
French novelist famous under a male pen name
 Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian AndersenAge 66
1805–1875 · Literature
The Little Mermaid, fairy tales
 Charles Darwin
Charles DarwinAge 62
1809–1882 · Science & Invention
Theory of evolution by natural selection
 Franz Liszt
Franz LisztAge 60
1811–1886 · Music
Piano virtuoso, composer of the Hungarian Rhapsodies
 Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe VerdiAge 58
1813–1901 · Music
La Traviata, Aida — operatic master
 Richard Wagner
Richard WagnerAge 58
1813–1883 · Music
Ring Cycle, revolutionary opera
 Otto von Bismarck
Otto von BismarckAge 56
1815–1898 · Politics & Leadership
Unified Germany, the Iron Chancellor
 Frederick Douglass
Frederick DouglassAge 53
1818–1895 · Activism & Social Change
Abolitionist, orator, writer
 Karl Marx
Karl MarxAge 53
1818–1883 · Philosophy & Thought
Das Kapital, Communist Manifesto
 Herman Melville
Herman MelvilleAge 52
1819–1891 · Literature
Moby-Dick
 Queen Victoria
Queen VictoriaAge 52
1819–1901 · Politics & Leadership
Longest-reigning British monarch of her era
 Walt Whitman
Walt WhitmanAge 52
1819–1892 · Literature
Leaves of Grass, father of free verse
 Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. AnthonyAge 51
1820–1906 · Activism & Social Change
Women's suffrage pioneer
 Florence Nightingale
Florence NightingaleAge 51
1820–1910 · Activism & Social Change
Founder of modern nursing
 Friedrich Engels
Friedrich EngelsAge 51
1820–1895 · Philosophy & Thought
Co-author of The Communist Manifesto with Marx
 Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor DostoevskyAge 50
1821–1881 · Literature
Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov
 Harriet Tubman
Harriet TubmanAge about 49
1822–1913 · Activism & Social Change
Underground Railroad conductor
 Louis Pasteur
Louis PasteurAge 49
1822–1895 · Science & Invention
Germ theory, pasteurization
 Gregor Mendel
Gregor MendelAge 49
1822–1884 · Science & Invention
Father of genetics
 Jules Verne
Jules VerneAge 43
1828–1905 · Literature
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
 Leo Tolstoy
Leo TolstoyAge 43
1828–1910 · Literature
War and Peace, Anna Karenina
 Henrik Ibsen
Henrik IbsenAge 43
1828–1906 · Literature
Norwegian playwright of A Doll's House
 Emily Dickinson
Emily DickinsonAge 41
1830–1886 · Literature
Reclusive poetic genius
 Sitting Bull
Sitting BullAge about 40
1831–1890 · Politics & Leadership
Lakota leader who defeated Custer at Little Bighorn
 James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk MaxwellAge 40
1831–1879 · Science & Invention
Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism
 Alfred Nobel
Alfred NobelAge 38
1833–1896 · Science & Invention
Invented dynamite, founded Nobel Prizes
 Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri MendeleevAge 37
1834–1907 · Science & Invention
Created the periodic table of elements
 Mark Twain
Mark TwainAge 36
1835–1910 · Literature
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
 Andrew Carnegie
Andrew CarnegieAge 36
1835–1919 · Business & Industry
Steel magnate, philanthropist
 John D. Rockefeller
John D. RockefellerAge 32
1839–1937 · Business & Industry
Standard Oil tycoon, among the richest Americans in history
 Claude Monet
Claude MonetAge 31
1840–1926 · Art
Water Lilies, father of Impressionism
 Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Pyotr TchaikovskyAge 31
1840–1893 · Music
Swan Lake, The Nutcracker
 Émile Zola
Émile ZolaAge 31
1840–1902 · Literature
French novelist who wrote J'Accuse
 Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste RenoirAge 30
1841–1919 · Art
Impressionist painter of joyful scenes
 Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich NietzscheAge 27
1844–1900 · Philosophy & Thought
"God is dead," Beyond Good and Evil
 Sarah Bernhardt
Sarah BernhardtAge 27
1844–1923 · Film & Entertainment
French stage actress of worldwide fame
 Thomas Edison
Thomas EdisonAge 24
1847–1931 · Science & Invention
Light bulb, phonograph, 1000+ patents
 Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham BellAge 24
1847–1922 · Science & Invention
Invented the telephone
 Paul Gauguin
Paul GauguinAge 23
1848–1903 · Art
Post-Impressionist painter of Tahiti
 Antoni Gaudí
Antoni GaudíAge 19
1852–1926 · Art
Sagrada Família architect
 Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van GoghAge 18
1853–1890 · Art
Starry Night, post-Impressionist icon
 Oscar Wilde
Oscar WildeAge 17
1854–1900 · Literature
The Picture of Dorian Gray, wit and charm
 Sigmund Freud
Sigmund FreudAge 15
1856–1939 · Philosophy & Thought
Father of psychoanalysis
 Nikola Tesla
Nikola TeslaAge 15
1856–1943 · Science & Invention
AC electricity, visionary inventor
 Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow WilsonAge 15
1856–1924 · Politics & Leadership
28th US President, League of Nations
 George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard ShawAge 15
1856–1950 · Literature
Irish playwright of Pygmalion
 Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore RooseveltAge 13
1858–1919 · Politics & Leadership
26th US President, Rough Rider
 Emmeline Pankhurst
Emmeline PankhurstAge 13
1858–1928 · Activism & Social Change
British suffragette leader
 Max Planck
Max PlanckAge 13
1858–1947 · Science & Invention
Father of quantum theory
 Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan DoyleAge 12
1859–1930 · Literature
Creator of Sherlock Holmes
 Anton Chekhov
Anton ChekhovAge 11
1860–1904 · Literature
Russian playwright and short-story master
 Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath TagoreAge 10
1861–1941 · Literature
First non-European Nobel laureate in Literature
 Gustav Klimt
Gustav KlimtAge 9
1862–1918 · Art
The Kiss, Art Nouveau master
 Claude Debussy
Claude DebussyAge 9
1862–1918 · Music
Clair de Lune, Impressionist music
 David Hilbert
David HilbertAge 9
1862–1943 · Science & Invention
German mathematician of Hilbert's problems
 Henry Ford
Henry FordAge 8
1863–1947 · Business & Industry
Assembly line, Model T automobile
 Edvard Munch
Edvard MunchAge 8
1863–1944 · Art
The Scream
 Max Weber
Max WeberAge 7
1864–1920 · Philosophy & Thought
A founder of modern sociology
 Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard KiplingAge 6
1865–1936 · Literature
Author of The Jungle Book, Nobel laureate
 H.G. Wells
H.G. WellsAge 5
1866–1946 · Literature
The War of the Worlds, science fiction pioneer
 Sun Yat-sen
Sun Yat-senAge 5
1866–1925 · Politics & Leadership
Father of the Republic of China
 Marie Curie
Marie CurieAge 4
1867–1934 · Science & Invention
Radioactivity, first woman Nobel laureate
 Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd WrightAge 4
1867–1959 · Art
American architect of Fallingwater
 Scott Joplin
Scott JoplinAge 3
1868–1917 · Music
King of Ragtime
 Maxim Gorky
Maxim GorkyAge 3
1868–1936 · Literature
Russian writer of The Lower Depths
 Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma GandhiAge 2
1869–1948 · Politics & Leadership
Nonviolent independence leader of India
 Grigori Rasputin
Grigori RasputinAge 2
1869–1916 · Politics & Leadership
Mystic who influenced the Russian royal family
 Henri Matisse
Henri MatisseAge 2
1869–1954 · Art
Leader of Fauvism, master of color and cut-outs
 Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir LeninAge 1
1870–1924 · Politics & Leadership
Bolshevik leader of the October Revolution
 Marcel Proust
Marcel ProustAge 0
1871–1922 · Literature
In Search of Lost Time
 Orville Wright
Orville WrightAge 0
1871–1948 · Science & Invention
Co-inventor of the airplane
 Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa LuxemburgAge 0
1871–1919 · Activism & Social Change
Marxist theorist and revolutionary
 Ernest Rutherford
Ernest RutherfordAge 0
1871–1937 · Science & Invention
Father of nuclear physics

Born in 1871

Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust
1871–1922 · Literature
In Search of Lost Time
 Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa Luxemburg
1871–1919 · Activism & Social Change
Marxist theorist and revolutionary
 Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
1871–1937 · Science & Invention
Father of nuclear physics
 Orville Wright
Orville Wright
1871–1948 · Science & Invention
Co-inventor of the airplane

Also Born in 1871

Rosa Luxemburg
1871–1919 · born March 5
Polish-German Marxist revolutionary (1871–1919)
Ernest Rutherford
1871–1937 · born August 30
New Zealand physicist and chemist (1871–1937)
Grazia Deledda
1871–1936 · born September 27
Italian writer (1871–1936)
Lesya Ukrainka
1871–1913 · born February 25
Ukrainian poet and writer (1871–1913)
Paul Valéry
1871–1945 · born October 30
French poet, essayist, and philosopher (1871–1945)
Heinrich Mann
1871–1950 · born March 27
German-American socialist writer and anti-fascist activist (1871–1950)
Karl Liebknecht
1871–1919 · born August 13
German socialist politician (1871–1919)
Friedrich Ebert
1871–1925 · born February 4
President of Germany from 1919 to 1925
Victor Grignard
1871–1935 · born May 6
French chemist (1871–1935)
Theodore Dreiser
1871–1945 · born August 27
American novelist and journalist (1871–1945)
Cordell Hull
1871–1955 · born October 2
American politician and diplomat (1871–1955)
Stephen Crane
1871–1900 · born November 1
American novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist (1871-1900)

Died in 1871

Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage
1791–1871 · Science & Invention
Father of the computer, designed the Analytical Engine

Also Died in 1871

Augustus De Morgan
1806–1871 · died March 18
British mathematician and logician (1806–1871)
Anna Atkins
1799–1871 · died June 9
British photographer (1799–1871)

Notable World Events in 1871

1871 Unification of Germany

Sources

  1. 1871 — Wikipedia. Births, deaths and events of the year
  2. Charles Babbage — Wikipedia
  3. Victor Hugo — Wikipedia
  4. Ralph Waldo Emerson — Wikipedia
  5. George Sand — Wikipedia
  6. Hans Christian Andersen — Wikipedia
  7. Charles Darwin — Wikipedia
  8. Franz Liszt — Wikipedia
  9. Giuseppe Verdi — Wikipedia
  10. Richard Wagner — Wikipedia
  11. Otto von Bismarck — Wikipedia
  12. Frederick Douglass — Wikipedia
  13. Karl Marx — Wikipedia
  14. Herman Melville — Wikipedia
  15. Queen Victoria — Wikipedia
  16. Walt Whitman — Wikipedia
  17. Susan B. Anthony — Wikipedia
  18. Florence Nightingale — Wikipedia
  19. Friedrich Engels — Wikipedia
  20. Fyodor Dostoevsky — Wikipedia
  21. Harriet Tubman — Wikipedia
  22. Louis Pasteur — Wikipedia
  23. Gregor Mendel — Wikipedia
  24. Jules Verne — Wikipedia
  25. Leo Tolstoy — Wikipedia
  26. Henrik Ibsen — Wikipedia
  27. Emily Dickinson — Wikipedia
  28. Sitting Bull — Wikipedia
  29. James Clerk Maxwell — Wikipedia
  30. Alfred Nobel — Wikipedia
  31. Dmitri Mendeleev — Wikipedia
  32. Mark Twain — Wikipedia
  33. Andrew Carnegie — Wikipedia
  34. John D. Rockefeller — Wikipedia
  35. Claude Monet — Wikipedia
  36. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Wikipedia
  37. Émile Zola — Wikipedia
  38. Pierre-Auguste Renoir — Wikipedia
  39. Friedrich Nietzsche — Wikipedia
  40. Sarah Bernhardt — Wikipedia
  41. Thomas Edison — Wikipedia
  42. Alexander Graham Bell — Wikipedia
  43. Paul Gauguin — Wikipedia
  44. Antoni Gaudí — Wikipedia
  45. Vincent van Gogh — Wikipedia
  46. Oscar Wilde — Wikipedia
  47. Sigmund Freud — Wikipedia
  48. Nikola Tesla — Wikipedia
  49. Woodrow Wilson — Wikipedia
  50. George Bernard Shaw — Wikipedia
  51. Theodore Roosevelt — Wikipedia
  52. Emmeline Pankhurst — Wikipedia
  53. Max Planck — Wikipedia
  54. Arthur Conan Doyle — Wikipedia
  55. Anton Chekhov — Wikipedia
  56. Rabindranath Tagore — Wikipedia
  57. Gustav Klimt — Wikipedia
  58. Claude Debussy — Wikipedia
  59. David Hilbert — Wikipedia
  60. Henry Ford — Wikipedia
  61. Edvard Munch — Wikipedia
  62. Max Weber — Wikipedia
  63. Rudyard Kipling — Wikipedia
  64. H. G. Wells — Wikipedia
  65. Sun Yat-sen — Wikipedia
  66. Marie Curie — Wikipedia
  67. Frank Lloyd Wright — Wikipedia
  68. Scott Joplin — Wikipedia
  69. Maxim Gorky — Wikipedia
  70. Mahatma Gandhi — Wikipedia
  71. Grigori Rasputin — Wikipedia
  72. Henri Matisse — Wikipedia
  73. Vladimir Lenin — Wikipedia
  74. Marcel Proust — Wikipedia
  75. Wright brothers — Wikipedia
  76. Rosa Luxemburg — Wikipedia
  77. Ernest Rutherford — Wikipedia
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