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Who Was Alive in 1892

105 of 492 historical figures were alive in 1892

Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe VerdiAge 79
1813–1901 · Music
La Traviata, Aida — operatic master
Otto von Bismarck
Otto von BismarckAge 77
1815–1898 · Politics & Leadership
Unified Germany, the Iron Chancellor
Frederick Douglass
Frederick DouglassAge 74
1818–1895 · Activism & Social Change
Abolitionist, orator, writer
Queen Victoria
Queen VictoriaAge 73
1819–1901 · Politics & Leadership
Longest-reigning British monarch of her era
Walt Whitman
Walt WhitmanAge 73
1819–1892 · Literature
Leaves of Grass, father of free verse
Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. AnthonyAge 72
1820–1906 · Activism & Social Change
Women's suffrage pioneer
Florence Nightingale
Florence NightingaleAge 72
1820–1910 · Activism & Social Change
Founder of modern nursing
Friedrich Engels
Friedrich EngelsAge 72
1820–1895 · Philosophy & Thought
Co-author of The Communist Manifesto with Marx
Harriet Tubman
Harriet TubmanAge about 70
1822–1913 · Activism & Social Change
Underground Railroad conductor
Louis Pasteur
Louis PasteurAge 70
1822–1895 · Science & Invention
Germ theory, pasteurization
Jules Verne
Jules VerneAge 64
1828–1905 · Literature
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Leo Tolstoy
Leo TolstoyAge 64
1828–1910 · Literature
War and Peace, Anna Karenina
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik IbsenAge 64
1828–1906 · Literature
Norwegian playwright of A Doll's House
Alfred Nobel
Alfred NobelAge 59
1833–1896 · Science & Invention
Invented dynamite, founded Nobel Prizes
Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri MendeleevAge 58
1834–1907 · Science & Invention
Created the periodic table of elements
Mark Twain
Mark TwainAge 57
1835–1910 · Literature
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew CarnegieAge 57
1835–1919 · Business & Industry
Steel magnate, philanthropist
John D. Rockefeller
John D. RockefellerAge 53
1839–1937 · Business & Industry
Standard Oil tycoon, among the richest Americans in history
Claude Monet
Claude MonetAge 52
1840–1926 · Art
Water Lilies, father of Impressionism
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Pyotr TchaikovskyAge 52
1840–1893 · Music
Swan Lake, The Nutcracker
Émile Zola
Émile ZolaAge 52
1840–1902 · Literature
French novelist who wrote J'Accuse
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste RenoirAge 51
1841–1919 · Art
Impressionist painter of joyful scenes
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich NietzscheAge 48
1844–1900 · Philosophy & Thought
"God is dead," Beyond Good and Evil
Sarah Bernhardt
Sarah BernhardtAge 48
1844–1923 · Film & Entertainment
French stage actress of worldwide fame
Thomas Edison
Thomas EdisonAge 45
1847–1931 · Science & Invention
Light bulb, phonograph, 1000+ patents
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham BellAge 45
1847–1922 · Science & Invention
Invented the telephone
Paul Gauguin
Paul GauguinAge 44
1848–1903 · Art
Post-Impressionist painter of Tahiti
Antoni Gaudí
Antoni GaudíAge 40
1852–1926 · Art
Sagrada Família architect
Oscar Wilde
Oscar WildeAge 38
1854–1900 · Literature
The Picture of Dorian Gray, wit and charm
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund FreudAge 36
1856–1939 · Philosophy & Thought
Father of psychoanalysis
Nikola Tesla
Nikola TeslaAge 36
1856–1943 · Science & Invention
AC electricity, visionary inventor
Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow WilsonAge 36
1856–1924 · Politics & Leadership
28th US President, League of Nations
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard ShawAge 36
1856–1950 · Literature
Irish playwright of Pygmalion
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore RooseveltAge 34
1858–1919 · Politics & Leadership
26th US President, Rough Rider
Emmeline Pankhurst
Emmeline PankhurstAge 34
1858–1928 · Activism & Social Change
British suffragette leader
Max Planck
Max PlanckAge 34
1858–1947 · Science & Invention
Father of quantum theory
Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan DoyleAge 33
1859–1930 · Literature
Creator of Sherlock Holmes
Anton Chekhov
Anton ChekhovAge 32
1860–1904 · Literature
Russian playwright and short-story master
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath TagoreAge 31
1861–1941 · Literature
First non-European Nobel laureate in Literature
Gustav Klimt
Gustav KlimtAge 30
1862–1918 · Art
The Kiss, Art Nouveau master
Claude Debussy
Claude DebussyAge 30
1862–1918 · Music
Clair de Lune, Impressionist music
David Hilbert
David HilbertAge 30
1862–1943 · Science & Invention
German mathematician of Hilbert's problems
Henry Ford
Henry FordAge 29
1863–1947 · Business & Industry
Assembly line, Model T automobile
Edvard Munch
Edvard MunchAge 29
1863–1944 · Art
The Scream
Max Weber
Max WeberAge 28
1864–1920 · Philosophy & Thought
A founder of modern sociology
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard KiplingAge 27
1865–1936 · Literature
Author of The Jungle Book, Nobel laureate
H.G. Wells
H.G. WellsAge 26
1866–1946 · Literature
The War of the Worlds, science fiction pioneer
Sun Yat-sen
Sun Yat-senAge 26
1866–1925 · Politics & Leadership
Father of the Republic of China
Marie Curie
Marie CurieAge 25
1867–1934 · Science & Invention
Radioactivity, first woman Nobel laureate
Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd WrightAge 25
1867–1959 · Art
American architect of Fallingwater
Scott Joplin
Scott JoplinAge 24
1868–1917 · Music
King of Ragtime
Maxim Gorky
Maxim GorkyAge 24
1868–1936 · Literature
Russian writer of The Lower Depths
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma GandhiAge 23
1869–1948 · Politics & Leadership
Nonviolent independence leader of India
Grigori Rasputin
Grigori RasputinAge 23
1869–1916 · Politics & Leadership
Mystic who influenced the Russian royal family
Henri Matisse
Henri MatisseAge 23
1869–1954 · Art
Leader of Fauvism, master of color and cut-outs
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir LeninAge 22
1870–1924 · Politics & Leadership
Bolshevik leader of the October Revolution
Marcel Proust
Marcel ProustAge 21
1871–1922 · Literature
In Search of Lost Time
Orville Wright
Orville WrightAge 21
1871–1948 · Science & Invention
Co-inventor of the airplane
Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa LuxemburgAge 21
1871–1919 · Activism & Social Change
Marxist theorist and revolutionary
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest RutherfordAge 21
1871–1937 · Science & Invention
Father of nuclear physics
Roald Amundsen
Roald AmundsenAge 20
1872–1928 · Exploration
First to reach the South Pole
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand RussellAge 20
1872–1970 · Philosophy & Thought
Logician, philosopher and Nobel laureate
Ernest Shackleton
Ernest ShackletonAge 18
1874–1922 · Exploration
Heroic Antarctic explorer, Endurance expedition
Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo MarconiAge 18
1874–1937 · Science & Invention
Pioneer of long-distance radio
Winston Churchill
Winston ChurchillAge 18
1874–1965 · Politics & Leadership
British PM who led WWII effort
Harry Houdini
Harry HoudiniAge 18
1874–1926 · Film & Entertainment
Legendary escape artist & illusionist
Carl Jung
Carl JungAge 17
1875–1961 · Philosophy & Thought
Analytical psychology, archetypes
Albert Schweitzer
Albert SchweitzerAge 17
1875–1965 · Philosophy & Thought
Nobel Peace Prize physician, theologian and organist
Thomas Mann
Thomas MannAge 17
1875–1955 · Literature
German novelist of The Magic Mountain
Pancho Villa
Pancho VillaAge 14
1878–1923 · Politics & Leadership
Mexican revolutionary general
Lise Meitner
Lise MeitnerAge 14
1878–1968 · Science & Invention
Discovered nuclear fission, overlooked for Nobel
Joseph Stalin
Joseph StalinAge 14
1878–1953 · Politics & Leadership
Leader of the Soviet Union 1924–1953
Albert Einstein
Albert EinsteinAge 13
1879–1955 · Science & Invention
Theory of relativity, E=mc²
Leon Trotsky
Leon TrotskyAge 13
1879–1940 · Politics & Leadership
Russian revolutionary, founder of the Red Army
Helen Keller
Helen KellerAge 12
1880–1968 · Activism & Social Change
Deafblind author and activist, The Story of My Life
Pablo Picasso
Pablo PicassoAge 11
1881–1973 · Art
Cubism, Guernica, most prolific artist
Alexander Fleming
Alexander FlemingAge 11
1881–1955 · Science & Invention
Discovered penicillin
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Mustafa Kemal AtatürkAge 11
1881–1938 · Politics & Leadership
Founder and first president of modern Turkey
Virginia Woolf
Virginia WoolfAge 10
1882–1941 · Literature
Mrs Dalloway, modernist pioneer
James Joyce
James JoyceAge 10
1882–1941 · Literature
Ulysses, literary revolutionary
Igor Stravinsky
Igor StravinskyAge 10
1882–1971 · Music
The Rite of Spring, modern classical
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. RooseveltAge 10
1882–1945 · Politics & Leadership
32nd US President, New Deal, WWII leader
Coco Chanel
Coco ChanelAge 9
1883–1971 · Business & Industry
Fashion icon, Chanel No. 5
Franz Kafka
Franz KafkaAge 9
1883–1924 · Literature
The Metamorphosis, surreal fiction
Benito Mussolini
Benito MussoliniAge 9
1883–1945 · Politics & Leadership
Fascist dictator of Italy 1922–1943
John Maynard Keynes
John Maynard KeynesAge 9
1883–1946 · Philosophy & Thought
Economist who founded Keynesian economics
Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor RooseveltAge 8
1884–1962 · Activism & Social Change
First Lady, UN delegate, human rights champion
Harry S. Truman
Harry S. TrumanAge 8
1884–1972 · Politics & Leadership
33rd US president at the end of World War II
Niels Bohr
Niels BohrAge 7
1885–1962 · Science & Invention
Atomic model, quantum mechanics pioneer
Diego Rivera
Diego RiveraAge 6
1886–1957 · Art
Mexican muralist, political artist
Erwin Schrödinger
Erwin SchrödingerAge 5
1887–1961 · Science & Invention
Schrödinger's cat, wave equation
Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia O'KeeffeAge 5
1887–1986 · Art
Mother of American modernism
Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang Kai-shekAge 5
1887–1975 · Politics & Leadership
Nationalist leader of the Republic of China
Le Corbusier
Le CorbusierAge 5
1887–1965 · Art
Pioneer of modern architecture
T. S. Eliot
T. S. EliotAge 4
1888–1965 · Literature
The Waste Land, Nobel-winning modernist poet
Charlie Chaplin
Charlie ChaplinAge 3
1889–1977 · Film & Entertainment
The Tramp, silent film legend
Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal NehruAge 3
1889–1964 · Politics & Leadership
First Prime Minister of independent India
Adolf Hitler
Adolf HitlerAge 3
1889–1945 · Politics & Leadership
Nazi dictator of Germany 1933–1945
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig WittgensteinAge 3
1889–1951 · Philosophy & Thought
Philosopher of logic and language
Ho Chi Minh
Ho Chi MinhAge 2
1890–1969 · Politics & Leadership
Revolutionary leader of Vietnam
Agatha Christie
Agatha ChristieAge 2
1890–1976 · Literature
Best-selling mystery novelist ever
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. EisenhowerAge 2
1890–1969 · Politics & Leadership
WWII Supreme Commander, 34th US President
Charles de Gaulle
Charles de GaulleAge 2
1890–1970 · Politics & Leadership
Leader of Free France, French President
Haile Selassie
Haile SelassieAge 0
1892–1975 · Politics & Leadership
Emperor of Ethiopia, Rastafari symbol
J.R.R. Tolkien
J.R.R. TolkienAge 0
1892–1973 · Literature
The Lord of the Rings, Middle-earth

Born in 1892

J.R.R. Tolkien
J.R.R. Tolkien
1892–1973 · Literature
The Lord of the Rings, Middle-earth
Haile Selassie
Haile Selassie
1892–1975 · Politics & Leadership
Emperor of Ethiopia, Rastafari symbol

Also Born in 1892

1892–1973 · born June 26
American writer (1892–1973)
1892–1975 · born December 4
Leader of Spain from 1939 to 1975
1892–1980 · born May 7
Leader of Yugoslavia from 1943 to 1980
1892–1975 · born October 9
Yugoslav writer and Nobel laureate (1892–1975)
1892–1979 · born April 8
Canadian actress and producer (1892–1979)
1892–1987 · born August 15
French physicist (1892–1987)
1892–1940 · born July 15
German cultural critic, philosopher and social critic (1892–1940)
1892–1941 · born October 8
Russian poet (1892–1941)
1892–1927 · born March 1
Japanese writer (1892–1927)
1892–1962 · born September 10
American physicist (1892–1962)
1892–1946 · born October 31
Russian-French chess player (1892–1946)
1892–1965 · born September 6
British physicist (1892–1965)

Died in 1892

Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman
1819–1892 · Literature
Leaves of Grass, father of free verse

Also Died in 1892

1809–1892 · died October 6
English poet (1809–1892)
1816–1892 · died December 6
German electrical engineer, inventor and industrialist (1816–1892)
1804–1892 · died December 18
English biologist and palaeontologist (1804–1892)
1827–1892 · died August 23
President of Brazil from 1889 to 1891
1834–1892 · died January 31
British preacher, author, pastor and evangelist (1834–1892)
1801–1892 · died January 2
English mathematician and astronomer (1801–1892)
1820–1892 · died December 3
Russian poet (1820–1892)
1822–1892 · died April 17
Prime Minister of Canada from 1873 to 1878
1819–1892 · died March 21
Italian astronomer (1819–1892)
1818–1892 · died May 5
German chemist (1818–1892)
1807–1892 · died September 7
American Quaker poet and abolitionist (1807–1892)
1818–1892 · died September 17
German jurist (1818–1892)

Sources

  1. 1892 — Wikipedia. Births, deaths and events of the year
  2. Giuseppe Verdi — Wikipedia
  3. Otto von Bismarck — Wikipedia
  4. Frederick Douglass — Wikipedia
  5. Queen Victoria — Wikipedia
  6. Walt Whitman — Wikipedia
  7. Susan B. Anthony — Wikipedia
  8. Florence Nightingale — Wikipedia
  9. Friedrich Engels — Wikipedia
  10. Harriet Tubman — Wikipedia
  11. Louis Pasteur — Wikipedia
  12. Jules Verne — Wikipedia
  13. Leo Tolstoy — Wikipedia
  14. Henrik Ibsen — Wikipedia
  15. Alfred Nobel — Wikipedia
  16. Dmitri Mendeleev — Wikipedia
  17. Mark Twain — Wikipedia
  18. Andrew Carnegie — Wikipedia
  19. John D. Rockefeller — Wikipedia
  20. Claude Monet — Wikipedia
  21. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Wikipedia
  22. Émile Zola — Wikipedia
  23. Pierre-Auguste Renoir — Wikipedia
  24. Friedrich Nietzsche — Wikipedia
  25. Sarah Bernhardt — Wikipedia
  26. Thomas Edison — Wikipedia
  27. Alexander Graham Bell — Wikipedia
  28. Paul Gauguin — Wikipedia
  29. Antoni Gaudí — Wikipedia
  30. Oscar Wilde — Wikipedia
  31. Sigmund Freud — Wikipedia
  32. Nikola Tesla — Wikipedia
  33. Woodrow Wilson — Wikipedia
  34. George Bernard Shaw — Wikipedia
  35. Theodore Roosevelt — Wikipedia
  36. Emmeline Pankhurst — Wikipedia
  37. Max Planck — Wikipedia
  38. Arthur Conan Doyle — Wikipedia
  39. Anton Chekhov — Wikipedia
  40. Rabindranath Tagore — Wikipedia
  41. Gustav Klimt — Wikipedia
  42. Claude Debussy — Wikipedia
  43. David Hilbert — Wikipedia
  44. Henry Ford — Wikipedia
  45. Edvard Munch — Wikipedia
  46. Max Weber — Wikipedia
  47. Rudyard Kipling — Wikipedia
  48. H. G. Wells — Wikipedia
  49. Sun Yat-sen — Wikipedia
  50. Marie Curie — Wikipedia
  51. Frank Lloyd Wright — Wikipedia
  52. Scott Joplin — Wikipedia
  53. Maxim Gorky — Wikipedia
  54. Mahatma Gandhi — Wikipedia
  55. Grigori Rasputin — Wikipedia
  56. Henri Matisse — Wikipedia
  57. Vladimir Lenin — Wikipedia
  58. Marcel Proust — Wikipedia
  59. Wright brothers — Wikipedia
  60. Rosa Luxemburg — Wikipedia
  61. Ernest Rutherford — Wikipedia
  62. Roald Amundsen — Wikipedia
  63. Bertrand Russell — Wikipedia
  64. Ernest Shackleton — Wikipedia
  65. Guglielmo Marconi — Wikipedia
  66. Winston Churchill — Wikipedia
  67. Harry Houdini — Wikipedia
  68. Carl Jung — Wikipedia
  69. Albert Schweitzer — Wikipedia
  70. Thomas Mann — Wikipedia
  71. Pancho Villa — Wikipedia
  72. Lise Meitner — Wikipedia
  73. Joseph Stalin — Wikipedia
  74. Albert Einstein — Wikipedia
  75. Leon Trotsky — Wikipedia
  76. Helen Keller — Wikipedia
  77. Pablo Picasso — Wikipedia
  78. Alexander Fleming — Wikipedia
  79. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk — Wikipedia
  80. Virginia Woolf — Wikipedia
  81. James Joyce — Wikipedia
  82. Igor Stravinsky — Wikipedia
  83. Franklin D. Roosevelt — Wikipedia
  84. Coco Chanel — Wikipedia
  85. Franz Kafka — Wikipedia
  86. Benito Mussolini — Wikipedia
  87. John Maynard Keynes — Wikipedia
  88. Eleanor Roosevelt — Wikipedia
  89. Harry S. Truman — Wikipedia
  90. Niels Bohr — Wikipedia
  91. Diego Rivera — Wikipedia
  92. Erwin Schrödinger — Wikipedia
  93. Georgia O'Keeffe — Wikipedia
  94. Chiang Kai-shek — Wikipedia
  95. Le Corbusier — Wikipedia
  96. T. S. Eliot — Wikipedia
  97. Charlie Chaplin — Wikipedia
  98. Jawaharlal Nehru — Wikipedia
  99. Adolf Hitler — Wikipedia
  100. Ludwig Wittgenstein — Wikipedia
  101. Ho Chi Minh — Wikipedia
  102. Agatha Christie — Wikipedia
  103. Dwight D. Eisenhower — Wikipedia
  104. Charles de Gaulle — Wikipedia
  105. Haile Selassie — Wikipedia
  106. J. R. R. Tolkien — Wikipedia
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