Who was alive in 1880?

1,707 well-known people were alive in 1880, including Albert Einstein, Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin. Here are the 80 most notable:

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) — German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
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)
Joseph Stalin (1878–1953) — leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953
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)
Winston Churchill (1874–1965) — British statesman, soldier and writer (1874–1965)
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)
Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) — Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941)
Marie Curie (1867–1934) — Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
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)
Roald Amundsen (1872–1928) — Norwegian explorer; first person to reach the South Pole (1872–1928)
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) — English writer and poet (1865–1936)
Marcel Proust (1871–1922) — French novelist, critic and essayist (1871–1922)
Jules Verne (1828–1905) — French writer (1828–1905)
Rosa Luxemburg (1871–1919) — Polish-German Marxist revolutionary (1871–1919)
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) — Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856–1950)
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) — British philosopher and logician (1872–1970)
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)
Leon Trotsky (1879–1940) — Russian Marxist revolutionary (1879–1940)
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)
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)
Ernest Rutherford (1871–1937) — New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
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)
Helen Keller (1880–1968) — American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
David Hilbert (1862–1943) — German mathematician (1862–1943)
Thomas Mann (1875–1955) — German novelist and Nobel Prize laureate (1875–1955)
Anatole France (1844–1924) — French writer (1844–1924)
Octave Mirbeau (1848–1917) — French writer, art critic and journalist (1848–1917)
Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) — president of the United States from 1923 to 1929
Herbert Hoover (1874–1964) — president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 (1874–1964)
Hermann Hesse (1877–1962) — Nobel Prize winning German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter (1877–1962)
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)
Carl Jung (1875–1961) — Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist (1875–1961)
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)
Konrad Adenauer (1876–1967) — German politician, Chancellor of West Germany (1949–1963), Zentrum and CDU

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