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Albrecht Kossel
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Albrecht Kossel

German biochemist

Born 16 September 1853 · died 5 July 1927, aged 73

Who was alive at the same time as Albrecht Kossel?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  3. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  4. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  5. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  6. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  7. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  8. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  9. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  10. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  11. Albrecht Kossel, 1853 – 1927
  12. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  13. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  14. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  15. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  16. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  17. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  18. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  19. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  20. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  21. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  22. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  23. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  24. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022

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When Albrecht Kossel was born, Karl Marx was 35, Abraham Lincoln was 44, Leo Tolstoy was 25, Charles Darwin was 44 and Victor Hugo was 51.

When Albrecht Kossel died, Adolf Hitler was 38, Albert Einstein was 48, Ronald Reagan was 16, Nelson Mandela was 8 and Mahatma Gandhi was 57.

Born during Albrecht Kossel’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Lenin, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin and Pablo Picasso.

Not quite contemporaries: Martin Luther King Jr. was born about 2 years after Albrecht Kossel died, Pope Francis was born about 9 years after Albrecht Kossel died, Che Guevara was born about a year after Albrecht Kossel died and Edgar Allan Poe died about 4 years before Albrecht Kossel was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,032 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Albrecht Kossel. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1890.

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  5. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  6. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  7. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  8. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  9. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  10. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  11. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  12. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  13. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  14. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  15. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  16. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  17. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  18. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  19. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  20. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  21. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  22. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  23. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  24. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  25. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  26. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  27. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  28. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  29. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  30. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  31. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  32. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  33. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  34. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  35. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  36. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  37. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  38. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  39. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  40. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  41. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  42. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  43. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  44. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  45. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  46. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  47. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  48. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  49. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  50. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  51. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  52. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  53. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  54. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  55. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  56. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  57. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  58. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  59. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  60. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  61. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  62. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  63. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  64. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  65. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  66. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  67. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  68. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  69. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  70. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  71. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  72. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  73. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  74. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  75. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  76. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  77. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  78. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  79. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  80. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  81. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  82. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  83. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  84. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  85. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  86. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  87. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  88. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  89. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  90. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  91. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  92. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  93. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  94. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  95. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  96. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  97. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  98. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  99. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  100. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  101. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  102. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  103. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  104. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  105. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  106. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  107. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  108. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  109. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  110. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  111. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  112. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  113. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  114. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  115. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  116. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  117. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  118. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  119. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  120. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  121. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  122. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  123. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  124. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  125. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  126. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  127. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  128. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  129. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  130. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  131. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  132. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  133. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  134. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  135. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  136. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  137. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  138. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  139. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  140. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  141. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  142. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  143. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  144. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  145. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  146. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  147. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  148. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  149. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  150. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893