Who was alive in 1870?

1,512 well-known people were alive in 1870, including Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi. Here are the 80 most notable:

Karl Marx (1818–1883) — German-born philosopher (1818-1883)
Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) — founding leader of the Soviet Union (1870–1924)
Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) — Indian independence activist (1869–1948)
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) — Russian author (1828–1910)
Charles Darwin (1809–1882) — English naturalist and biologist (1809–1882)
Victor Hugo (1802–1885) — French novelist, poet, dramatist and politician (1802–1885)
Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) — Dutch painter (1853–1890)
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) — German philosopher (1844-1900)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881) — Russian novelist (1821–1881)
Mark Twain (1835–1910) — American author and humorist (1835–1910)
Thomas Edison (1847–1931) — American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) — Austrian psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis (1856–1939)
Charles Dickens (1812–1870) — English novelist and social critic (1812–1870)
Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) — Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941)
Marie Curie (1867–1934) — Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) — Danish writer and poet (1805–1875)
Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) — Russian dramatist and author (1860–1904)
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) — Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)
Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898) — German statesman and Chancellor (1815-1898)
Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) — Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856–1943)
Louis Pasteur (1822–1895) — French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
Richard Wagner (1813–1883) — German composer (1813–1883)
Henry Ford (1863–1947) — American business magnate (1863–1947)
Friedrich Engels (1820–1895) — German philosopher, sociologist and economist (1820–1895)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) — Russian composer (1840–1893)
Sarah Bernhardt (1844–1923) — French stage actress, painter and sculptor (1844–1923)
Alfred Nobel (1833–1896) — Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) — 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909 (1858–1919)
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) — president of the United States from 1913 to 1921 (1856–1924)
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) — English writer and poet (1865–1936)
Jules Verne (1828–1905) — French writer (1828–1905)
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) — Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856–1950)
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) — British writer and physician (1859–1930)
Max Planck (1858–1947) — German theoretical physicist (1858–1947)
Maxim Gorky (1868–1936) — Russian and Soviet writer (1868–1936)
Dmitri Mendeleev (1834–1907) — Russian chemist (1834–1907)
Henri Matisse (1869–1954) — French artist (1869-1954)
Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901) — Italian opera composer (1813–1901)
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) — American architect (1867-1959)
Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) — French writer and dramatist (1802–1870)
Victoria (1819–1901) — Queen of the United Kingdom from 1837 to 1901 (1819-1901)
Max Weber (1864–1920) — German sociologist, philosopher, and political economist (1864–1920)
Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906) — Norwegian playwright and theatre director (1828–1906)
H. G. Wells (1866–1946) — English writer (1866–1946)
Émile Zola (1840–1902) — French novelist, journalist, playwright, and poet (1840–1902)
David Hilbert (1862–1943) — German mathematician (1862–1943)
Anatole France (1844–1924) — French writer (1844–1924)
Octave Mirbeau (1848–1917) — French writer, art critic and journalist (1848–1917)
James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879) — Scottish physicist (1831–1879)
Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922) — Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
Johannes Brahms (1833–1897) — German composer (1833–1897)
Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) — French novelist (1821–1880)
Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885) — president of the United States from 1869 to 1877
Wilhelm Röntgen (1845–1923) — German physicist (1845–1923)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) — American philosopher (1803–1882)
Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) — British author and scholar (1832–1898)
Selma Lagerlöf (1858–1940) — Swedish writer (1858–1940)
William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) — Irish poet and playwright (1865–1939)
Claude Monet (1840–1926) — French painter (1840–1926)
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) — Scottish novelist and poet (1850-1894)
Guy de Maupassant (1850–1893) — French writer (1850-1893)
Sun Yat-sen (1866–1925) — Chinese politician, physician, and revolutionary (1866–1925)
Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904) — Czech composer (1841–1904)
Gustav Mahler (1860–1911) — Austrian late-Romantic composer (1860–1911)
John Stuart Mill (1806–1873) — British philosopher and political economist (1806–1873)
Ivan Turgenev (1818–1883) — Russian writer (1818–1883)
Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) — English social reformer, statistician, and founder of modern nursing (1820–1910)
Walt Whitman (1819–1892) — American poet, essayist and journalist (1819–1892)
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) — American poet (1830-1886)
James A. Garfield (1831–1881) — president of the United States in 1881
Grover Cleveland (1837–1908) — President of the United States (1885–89; 1893–97)
William Howard Taft (1857–1930) — 27th President of the United States from 1909 to 1913 (1857–1930)
Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924) — Italian opera composer (1858–1924)
Andrew Johnson (1808–1875) — President of the United States from 1865 to 1869
William McKinley (1843–1901) — president of the United States from 1897 to 1901
Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891) — French poet (1854-1891)
L. L. Zamenhof (1859–1917) — Polish-Jewish physician and inventor of Esperanto (1859-1917)
Warren G. Harding (1865–1923) — president of the United States from 1921 to 1923
André Gide (1869–1951) — French author and Nobel laureate (1869–1951)
Millard Fillmore (1800–1874) — president of the United States from 1850 to 1853

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