Who Was Alive in 1873

77 of 492 historical figures were alive in 1873

Victor HugoAge 71

1802–1885 · Literature

Les Misérables, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

Ralph Waldo EmersonAge 70

1803–1882 · Philosophy & Thought

Transcendentalist essayist of Self-Reliance

George SandAge 69

1804–1876 · Literature

French novelist famous under a male pen name

Hans Christian AndersenAge 68

1805–1875 · Literature

The Little Mermaid, fairy tales

Charles DarwinAge 64

1809–1882 · Science & Invention

Theory of evolution by natural selection

Franz LisztAge 62

1811–1886 · Music

Piano virtuoso, composer of the Hungarian Rhapsodies

Giuseppe VerdiAge 60

1813–1901 · Music

La Traviata, Aida — operatic master

Richard WagnerAge 60

1813–1883 · Music

Ring Cycle, revolutionary opera

Otto von BismarckAge 58

1815–1898 · Politics & Leadership

Unified Germany, the Iron Chancellor

Frederick DouglassAge 55

1818–1895 · Activism & Social Change

Abolitionist, orator, writer

Karl MarxAge 55

1818–1883 · Philosophy & Thought

Das Kapital, Communist Manifesto

Herman MelvilleAge 54

1819–1891 · Literature

Moby-Dick

Queen VictoriaAge 54

1819–1901 · Politics & Leadership

Longest-reigning British monarch of her era

Walt WhitmanAge 54

1819–1892 · Literature

Leaves of Grass, father of free verse

Susan B. AnthonyAge 53

1820–1906 · Activism & Social Change

Women's suffrage pioneer

Florence NightingaleAge 53

1820–1910 · Activism & Social Change

Founder of modern nursing

Friedrich EngelsAge 53

1820–1895 · Philosophy & Thought

Co-author of The Communist Manifesto with Marx

Fyodor DostoevskyAge 52

1821–1881 · Literature

Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov

Harriet TubmanAge about 51

1822–1913 · Activism & Social Change

Underground Railroad conductor

Louis PasteurAge 51

1822–1895 · Science & Invention

Germ theory, pasteurization

Gregor MendelAge 51

1822–1884 · Science & Invention

Father of genetics

Jules VerneAge 45

1828–1905 · Literature

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Leo TolstoyAge 45

1828–1910 · Literature

War and Peace, Anna Karenina

Henrik IbsenAge 45

1828–1906 · Literature

Norwegian playwright of A Doll's House

Emily DickinsonAge 43

1830–1886 · Literature

Reclusive poetic genius

Sitting BullAge about 42

1831–1890 · Politics & Leadership

Lakota leader who defeated Custer at Little Bighorn

James Clerk MaxwellAge 42

1831–1879 · Science & Invention

Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism

Alfred NobelAge 40

1833–1896 · Science & Invention

Invented dynamite, founded Nobel Prizes

Dmitri MendeleevAge 39

1834–1907 · Science & Invention

Created the periodic table of elements

Mark TwainAge 38

1835–1910 · Literature

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Andrew CarnegieAge 38

1835–1919 · Business & Industry

Steel magnate, philanthropist

John D. RockefellerAge 34

1839–1937 · Business & Industry

Standard Oil tycoon, among the richest Americans in history

Claude MonetAge 33

1840–1926 · Art

Water Lilies, father of Impressionism

Pyotr TchaikovskyAge 33

1840–1893 · Music

Swan Lake, The Nutcracker

Émile ZolaAge 33

1840–1902 · Literature

French novelist who wrote J'Accuse

Pierre-Auguste RenoirAge 32

1841–1919 · Art

Impressionist painter of joyful scenes

Friedrich NietzscheAge 29

1844–1900 · Philosophy & Thought

"God is dead," Beyond Good and Evil

Sarah BernhardtAge 29

1844–1923 · Film & Entertainment

French stage actress of worldwide fame

Thomas EdisonAge 26

1847–1931 · Science & Invention

Light bulb, phonograph, 1000+ patents

Alexander Graham BellAge 26

1847–1922 · Science & Invention

Invented the telephone

Paul GauguinAge 25

1848–1903 · Art

Post-Impressionist painter of Tahiti

Antoni GaudíAge 21

1852–1926 · Art

Sagrada Família architect

Vincent van GoghAge 20

1853–1890 · Art

Starry Night, post-Impressionist icon

Oscar WildeAge 19

1854–1900 · Literature

The Picture of Dorian Gray, wit and charm

Sigmund FreudAge 17

1856–1939 · Philosophy & Thought

Father of psychoanalysis

Nikola TeslaAge 17

1856–1943 · Science & Invention

AC electricity, visionary inventor

Woodrow WilsonAge 17

1856–1924 · Politics & Leadership

28th US President, League of Nations

George Bernard ShawAge 17

1856–1950 · Literature

Irish playwright of Pygmalion

Theodore RooseveltAge 15

1858–1919 · Politics & Leadership

26th US President, Rough Rider

Emmeline PankhurstAge 15

1858–1928 · Activism & Social Change

British suffragette leader

Max PlanckAge 15

1858–1947 · Science & Invention

Father of quantum theory

Arthur Conan DoyleAge 14

1859–1930 · Literature

Creator of Sherlock Holmes

Anton ChekhovAge 13

1860–1904 · Literature

Russian playwright and short-story master

Rabindranath TagoreAge 12

1861–1941 · Literature

First non-European Nobel laureate in Literature

Gustav KlimtAge 11

1862–1918 · Art

The Kiss, Art Nouveau master

Claude DebussyAge 11

1862–1918 · Music

Clair de Lune, Impressionist music

David HilbertAge 11

1862–1943 · Science & Invention

German mathematician of Hilbert's problems

Henry FordAge 10

1863–1947 · Business & Industry

Assembly line, Model T automobile

1864–1920 · Philosophy & Thought

A founder of modern sociology

Rudyard KiplingAge 8

1865–1936 · Literature

Author of The Jungle Book, Nobel laureate

H.G. WellsAge 7

1866–1946 · Literature

The War of the Worlds, science fiction pioneer

Sun Yat-senAge 7

1866–1925 · Politics & Leadership

Father of the Republic of China

Marie CurieAge 6

1867–1934 · Science & Invention

Radioactivity, first woman Nobel laureate

Frank Lloyd WrightAge 6

1867–1959 · Art

American architect of Fallingwater

1868–1936 · Literature

Russian writer of The Lower Depths

Mahatma GandhiAge 4

1869–1948 · Politics & Leadership

Nonviolent independence leader of India

Grigori RasputinAge 4

1869–1916 · Politics & Leadership

Mystic who influenced the Russian royal family

Henri MatisseAge 4

1869–1954 · Art

Leader of Fauvism, master of color and cut-outs

Vladimir LeninAge 3

1870–1924 · Politics & Leadership

Bolshevik leader of the October Revolution

Marcel ProustAge 2

1871–1922 · Literature

In Search of Lost Time

Orville WrightAge 2

1871–1948 · Science & Invention

Co-inventor of the airplane

Rosa LuxemburgAge 2

1871–1919 · Activism & Social Change

Marxist theorist and revolutionary

Ernest RutherfordAge 2

1871–1937 · Science & Invention

Father of nuclear physics

Roald AmundsenAge 1

1872–1928 · Exploration

First to reach the South Pole

Bertrand RussellAge 1

1872–1970 · Philosophy & Thought

Logician, philosopher and Nobel laureate

Also Born in 1873

Sergei Rachmaninoff

1873–1943 · born April 1

Russian composer and pianist (1873–1943)

Henri Barbusse

1873–1935 · born May 17

French novelist and writer (1873–1935)

Colette

1873–1954 · born January 28

French novelist (1873–1954)

Johannes V. Jensen

1873–1950 · born January 20

Danish author (1873–1950)

Thérèse of Lisieux

1873–1897 · born January 2

French Discalced Carmelite nun and saint (1873–1897)

Alexis Carrel

1873–1944 · born June 28

French surgeon and biologist (1873–1944)

Enrico Caruso

1873–1921 · born February 25

Italian opera tenor (1873–1921)

Radoje Domanović

1873–1908 · born February 16

Serbian journalist, writer and teacher (1873–1908)

Willa Cather

1873–1947 · born December 7

American writer (1873–1947)

Francisco I. Madero

1873–1913 · born October 30

President of Mexico from 1911 to 1913

Charles Péguy

1873–1914 · born January 7

French poet, essayist, and editor (1873–1914)

Feodor Chaliapin

1873–1938 · born February 13

Russian opera singer (1873–1938)

Also Died in 1873

Napoleon III

1808–1873 · died January 9

Emperor of the French from 1852 to 1870

David Livingstone

1813–1873 · died May 1

British colonialist and missionary

Justus von Liebig

1803–1873 · died April 18

German chemist (1803–1873)

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

1803–1873 · died January 18

British statesman and writer (1803–1873)

Louis Agassiz

1807–1873 · died December 14

Swiss-American naturalist (1807–1873)

Vasil Levski

1837–1873 · died February 18

Bulgarian revolutionary (1837–1873)

Sheridan Le Fanu

1814–1873 · died February 7

Irish writer of Gothic literature and journalist (1814–1873)

Jean Chacornac

1823–1873 · died September 23

French astronomer (1823–1873)

Wilhelm Marstrand

1810–1873 · died March 25

Painter and illustrator (1810–1873)

Sources

1873 — Wikipedia. Births, deaths and events of the year
Victor Hugo — Wikipedia
Ralph Waldo Emerson — Wikipedia
George Sand — Wikipedia
Hans Christian Andersen — Wikipedia
Charles Darwin — Wikipedia
Franz Liszt — 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
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
Henry Ford — Wikipedia
Edvard Munch — Wikipedia
Max Weber — Wikipedia
Rudyard Kipling — Wikipedia
H. G. Wells — Wikipedia
Sun Yat-sen — Wikipedia
Marie Curie — Wikipedia
Frank Lloyd Wright — Wikipedia
Scott Joplin — Wikipedia
Maxim Gorky — Wikipedia
Mahatma Gandhi — Wikipedia
Grigori Rasputin — Wikipedia
Henri Matisse — Wikipedia
Vladimir Lenin — Wikipedia
Marcel Proust — Wikipedia
Wright brothers — Wikipedia
Rosa Luxemburg — Wikipedia
Ernest Rutherford — Wikipedia
Roald Amundsen — Wikipedia
Bertrand Russell — Wikipedia

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