Pulse No. 13 · Monday, November 9, 2026

Alive on September 9, 1870

The 40 most famous people alive that day, then the close calls that would have cost you a point.

Alive that day

1Karl MarxAge 52 · 1818–1883

2Leo TolstoyAge 42 · 1828–1910

3Charles DarwinAge 61 · 1809–1882

4Victor HugoAge 68 · 1802–1885

5Vincent van GoghAge 17 · 1853–1890

6Friedrich NietzscheAge 25 · 1844–1900

7Fyodor DostoyevskyAge 48 · 1821–1881

8Thomas EdisonAge 23 · 1847–1931

9Sigmund FreudAge 14 · 1856–1939

10Mark TwainAge 34 · 1835–1910

11Marie CurieAge 2 · 1867–1934

12Rabindranath TagoreAge 9 · 1861–1941

13Hans Christian AndersenAge 65 · 1805–1875

14Anton ChekhovAge 10 · 1860–1904

15Oscar WildeAge 15 · 1854–1900

16Nikola TeslaAge 14 · 1856–1943

17Otto von BismarckAge 55 · 1815–1898

18Louis PasteurAge 47 · 1822–1895

19Richard WagnerAge 57 · 1813–1883

20Henry FordAge 7 · 1863–1947

21Friedrich EngelsAge 49 · 1820–1895

22Sarah BernhardtAge 25 · 1844–1923

23Alfred NobelAge 36 · 1833–1896

24Theodore RooseveltAge 11 · 1858–1919

25Pyotr Ilyich TchaikovskyAge 30 · 1840–1893

26Jules VerneAge 42 · 1828–1905

27Woodrow WilsonAge 13 · 1856–1924

28Rudyard KiplingAge 4 · 1865–1936

29George Bernard ShawAge 14 · 1856–1950

30Arthur Conan DoyleAge 11 · 1859–1930

31Max PlanckAge 12 · 1858–1947

32Maxim GorkyAge 2 · 1868–1936

33Dmitri MendeleevAge 36 · 1834–1907

34Frank Lloyd WrightAge 3 · 1867–1959

35Giuseppe VerdiAge 56 · 1813–1901

36VictoriaAge 51 · 1819–1901

37Alexandre DumasDied 87 days later · 1802–1870

38Max WeberAge 6 · 1864–1920

39Henrik IbsenAge 42 · 1828–1906

40H. G. WellsAge 3 · 1866–1946

Close calls: not alive

1Charles DickensDied 92 days earlier · 1812–1870

2Marcel ProustBorn 10 months later · 1871–1922

3Rosa LuxemburgBorn 6 months later · 1871–1919

4Ernest RutherfordBorn 12 months later · 1871–1937

5Franklin PierceDied 11 months earlier · 1804–1869

6Ivan BuninBorn 43 days later · 1870–1953

7Lesya UkrainkaBorn 6 months later · 1871–1913

8Jean-Baptiste PerrinBorn 21 days later · 1870–1942

9Alexander HerzenDied 8 months earlier · 1812–1870

10Heinrich MannBorn 7 months later · 1871–1950

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