Who Was Alive in 1877

82 of 492 historical figures were alive in 1877

Victor HugoAge 75

1802–1885 · Literature

Les Misérables, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

Ralph Waldo EmersonAge 74

1803–1882 · Philosophy & Thought

Transcendentalist essayist of Self-Reliance

Charles DarwinAge 68

1809–1882 · Science & Invention

Theory of evolution by natural selection

Franz LisztAge 66

1811–1886 · Music

Piano virtuoso, composer of the Hungarian Rhapsodies

Giuseppe VerdiAge 64

1813–1901 · Music

La Traviata, Aida — operatic master

Richard WagnerAge 64

1813–1883 · Music

Ring Cycle, revolutionary opera

Otto von BismarckAge 62

1815–1898 · Politics & Leadership

Unified Germany, the Iron Chancellor

Frederick DouglassAge 59

1818–1895 · Activism & Social Change

Abolitionist, orator, writer

Karl MarxAge 59

1818–1883 · Philosophy & Thought

Das Kapital, Communist Manifesto

Herman MelvilleAge 58

1819–1891 · Literature

Moby-Dick

Queen VictoriaAge 58

1819–1901 · Politics & Leadership

Longest-reigning British monarch of her era

Walt WhitmanAge 58

1819–1892 · Literature

Leaves of Grass, father of free verse

Susan B. AnthonyAge 57

1820–1906 · Activism & Social Change

Women's suffrage pioneer

Florence NightingaleAge 57

1820–1910 · Activism & Social Change

Founder of modern nursing

Friedrich EngelsAge 57

1820–1895 · Philosophy & Thought

Co-author of The Communist Manifesto with Marx

Fyodor DostoevskyAge 56

1821–1881 · Literature

Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov

Harriet TubmanAge about 55

1822–1913 · Activism & Social Change

Underground Railroad conductor

Louis PasteurAge 55

1822–1895 · Science & Invention

Germ theory, pasteurization

Gregor MendelAge 55

1822–1884 · Science & Invention

Father of genetics

Jules VerneAge 49

1828–1905 · Literature

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Leo TolstoyAge 49

1828–1910 · Literature

War and Peace, Anna Karenina

Henrik IbsenAge 49

1828–1906 · Literature

Norwegian playwright of A Doll's House

Emily DickinsonAge 47

1830–1886 · Literature

Reclusive poetic genius

Sitting BullAge about 46

1831–1890 · Politics & Leadership

Lakota leader who defeated Custer at Little Bighorn

James Clerk MaxwellAge 46

1831–1879 · Science & Invention

Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism

Alfred NobelAge 44

1833–1896 · Science & Invention

Invented dynamite, founded Nobel Prizes

Dmitri MendeleevAge 43

1834–1907 · Science & Invention

Created the periodic table of elements

Mark TwainAge 42

1835–1910 · Literature

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Andrew CarnegieAge 42

1835–1919 · Business & Industry

Steel magnate, philanthropist

John D. RockefellerAge 38

1839–1937 · Business & Industry

Standard Oil tycoon, among the richest Americans in history

Claude MonetAge 37

1840–1926 · Art

Water Lilies, father of Impressionism

Pyotr TchaikovskyAge 37

1840–1893 · Music

Swan Lake, The Nutcracker

Émile ZolaAge 37

1840–1902 · Literature

French novelist who wrote J'Accuse

Pierre-Auguste RenoirAge 36

1841–1919 · Art

Impressionist painter of joyful scenes

Friedrich NietzscheAge 33

1844–1900 · Philosophy & Thought

"God is dead," Beyond Good and Evil

Sarah BernhardtAge 33

1844–1923 · Film & Entertainment

French stage actress of worldwide fame

Thomas EdisonAge 30

1847–1931 · Science & Invention

Light bulb, phonograph, 1000+ patents

Alexander Graham BellAge 30

1847–1922 · Science & Invention

Invented the telephone

Paul GauguinAge 29

1848–1903 · Art

Post-Impressionist painter of Tahiti

Antoni GaudíAge 25

1852–1926 · Art

Sagrada Família architect

Vincent van GoghAge 24

1853–1890 · Art

Starry Night, post-Impressionist icon

Oscar WildeAge 23

1854–1900 · Literature

The Picture of Dorian Gray, wit and charm

Sigmund FreudAge 21

1856–1939 · Philosophy & Thought

Father of psychoanalysis

Nikola TeslaAge 21

1856–1943 · Science & Invention

AC electricity, visionary inventor

Woodrow WilsonAge 21

1856–1924 · Politics & Leadership

28th US President, League of Nations

George Bernard ShawAge 21

1856–1950 · Literature

Irish playwright of Pygmalion

Theodore RooseveltAge 19

1858–1919 · Politics & Leadership

26th US President, Rough Rider

Emmeline PankhurstAge 19

1858–1928 · Activism & Social Change

British suffragette leader

Max PlanckAge 19

1858–1947 · Science & Invention

Father of quantum theory

Arthur Conan DoyleAge 18

1859–1930 · Literature

Creator of Sherlock Holmes

Anton ChekhovAge 17

1860–1904 · Literature

Russian playwright and short-story master

Rabindranath TagoreAge 16

1861–1941 · Literature

First non-European Nobel laureate in Literature

Gustav KlimtAge 15

1862–1918 · Art

The Kiss, Art Nouveau master

Claude DebussyAge 15

1862–1918 · Music

Clair de Lune, Impressionist music

David HilbertAge 15

1862–1943 · Science & Invention

German mathematician of Hilbert's problems

Henry FordAge 14

1863–1947 · Business & Industry

Assembly line, Model T automobile

1864–1920 · Philosophy & Thought

A founder of modern sociology

Rudyard KiplingAge 12

1865–1936 · Literature

Author of The Jungle Book, Nobel laureate

H.G. WellsAge 11

1866–1946 · Literature

The War of the Worlds, science fiction pioneer

Sun Yat-senAge 11

1866–1925 · Politics & Leadership

Father of the Republic of China

Marie CurieAge 10

1867–1934 · Science & Invention

Radioactivity, first woman Nobel laureate

Frank Lloyd WrightAge 10

1867–1959 · Art

American architect of Fallingwater

1868–1936 · Literature

Russian writer of The Lower Depths

Mahatma GandhiAge 8

1869–1948 · Politics & Leadership

Nonviolent independence leader of India

Grigori RasputinAge 8

1869–1916 · Politics & Leadership

Mystic who influenced the Russian royal family

Henri MatisseAge 8

1869–1954 · Art

Leader of Fauvism, master of color and cut-outs

Vladimir LeninAge 7

1870–1924 · Politics & Leadership

Bolshevik leader of the October Revolution

Marcel ProustAge 6

1871–1922 · Literature

In Search of Lost Time

Orville WrightAge 6

1871–1948 · Science & Invention

Co-inventor of the airplane

Rosa LuxemburgAge 6

1871–1919 · Activism & Social Change

Marxist theorist and revolutionary

Ernest RutherfordAge 6

1871–1937 · Science & Invention

Father of nuclear physics

Roald AmundsenAge 5

1872–1928 · Exploration

First to reach the South Pole

Bertrand RussellAge 5

1872–1970 · Philosophy & Thought

Logician, philosopher and Nobel laureate

Ernest ShackletonAge 3

1874–1922 · Exploration

Heroic Antarctic explorer, Endurance expedition

Guglielmo MarconiAge 3

1874–1937 · Science & Invention

Pioneer of long-distance radio

Winston ChurchillAge 3

1874–1965 · Politics & Leadership

British PM who led WWII effort

Harry HoudiniAge 3

1874–1926 · Film & Entertainment

Legendary escape artist & illusionist

Carl JungAge 2

1875–1961 · Philosophy & Thought

Analytical psychology, archetypes

Albert SchweitzerAge 2

1875–1965 · Philosophy & Thought

Nobel Peace Prize physician, theologian and organist

Thomas MannAge 2

1875–1955 · Literature

German novelist of The Magic Mountain

Also Born in 1877

Hermann Hesse

1877–1962 · born July 2

German writer (1877–1962)

Muhammad Iqbal

1877–1938 · born November 9

Islamic philosopher and poet (1877–1938)

G. H. Hardy

1877–1947 · born February 7

British mathematician (1877–1947)

Frederick Soddy

1877–1956 · born September 2

English radiochemist (1877–1956)

Felix Dzerzhinsky

1877–1926 · born September 11

Soviet revolutionary and politician (1877–1926)

Francis William Aston

1877–1945 · born September 1

British chemist and physicist (1877–1945)

Alben W. Barkley

1877–1956 · born November 24

Vice President of the United States from 1949 to 1953

Enrico De Nicola

1877–1959 · born November 9

President of Italy in 1948

Heinrich Otto Wieland

1877–1957 · born June 4

German Nobel laureate in Chemistry (1877–1957)

Wilhelm Frick

1877–1946 · born March 12

German Nazi Party politician (1877–1946)

Kārlis Ulmanis

1877–1942 · born September 4

Prime minister of Latvia, agronomist

Henry Norris Russell

1877–1957 · born October 25

American astronomer (1877–1957)

Also Died in 1877

Gustave Courbet

1819–1877 · died December 31

French realist painter (1819–1877)

Adolphe Thiers

1797–1877 · died September 3

President of France from 1871 to 1873

Urbain Le Verrier

1811–1877 · died September 23

French astronomer and mathematician (1811–1877)

Crazy Horse

1849–1877 · died September 5

Lakota war leader (c. 1840–1877)

Johan Ludvig Runeberg

1804–1877 · died May 6

Finnish poet (1804–1877)

Brigham Young

1801–1877 · died August 29

American religious leader (1801–1877)

Cornelius Vanderbilt

1794–1877 · died January 4

American business tycoon (1794–1877)

Juan Manuel de Rosas

1793–1877 · died March 14

Argentine politician and general (1793–1877)

Henry Fox Talbot

1800–1877 · died September 17

English photography pioneer (1800–1877)

Hermann Grassmann

1809–1877 · died September 26

German polymath, linguist and mathematician (1809–1877)

Nathan Bedford Forrest

1821–1877 · died October 29

Confederate States Army general, planter, and slave trader (1821–1877)

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1877 — Wikipedia. Births, deaths and events of the year
Victor Hugo — Wikipedia
Ralph Waldo Emerson — 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
Ernest Shackleton — Wikipedia
Guglielmo Marconi — Wikipedia
Winston Churchill — Wikipedia
Harry Houdini — Wikipedia
Carl Jung — Wikipedia
Albert Schweitzer — Wikipedia
Thomas Mann — Wikipedia

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