Who Was Alive

Alfred Nobel

Swedish chemist and inventor

Born 21 October 1833 · died 10 December 1896, aged 63

Who was alive at the same time as Alfred Nobel?

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Abraham Lincoln
  3. Charles Darwin
  4. Charles Dickens
  5. Karl Marx
  6. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  7. Leo Tolstoy
  8. Alfred Nobel
  9. Mark Twain
  10. Friedrich Nietzsche
  11. Thomas Edison
  12. Vincent van Gogh
  13. Sigmund Freud
  14. Rabindranath Tagore
  15. Marie Curie
  16. Mahatma Gandhi
  17. Vladimir Lenin
  18. Winston Churchill
  19. Joseph Stalin
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  21. Albert Einstein
  22. Pablo Picasso
  23. Charlie Chaplin
  24. Adolf Hitler
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When Alfred Nobel was born, Karl Marx was 15, Abraham Lincoln was 24, Leo Tolstoy was 5, Charles Darwin was 24 and Victor Hugo was 31.

When Alfred Nobel died, Adolf Hitler was 7, Albert Einstein was 17, Vladimir Lenin was 26, Mahatma Gandhi was 27 and Leo Tolstoy was 68.

Born during Alfred Nobel’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and Winston Churchill.

Not quite contemporaries: Ronald Reagan was born 15 years after Alfred Nobel died, Napoleon died 12 years before Alfred Nobel was born, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died about a year before Alfred Nobel was born and Ludwig van Beethoven died 6 years before Alfred Nobel was born.

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  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  5. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  6. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  7. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  8. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  9. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  10. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  11. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  12. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  13. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  14. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  15. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  16. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  17. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  18. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  19. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  21. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  22. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  23. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  24. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  25. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  26. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  27. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  28. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  29. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  30. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  31. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  32. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  33. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  34. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  35. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  36. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  37. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  38. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  39. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  40. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  41. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  42. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  43. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  44. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  45. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  46. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  47. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  48. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  49. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  50. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  51. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  52. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  53. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  54. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  55. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  56. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  57. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  58. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  59. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  60. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  61. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  62. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  63. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  64. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  65. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  66. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  67. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  68. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  69. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  70. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  71. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  72. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  73. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  74. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  75. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  76. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  77. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  78. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  79. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  80. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  81. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  82. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  83. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  84. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  85. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  86. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  87. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  88. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  89. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  90. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  91. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  92. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  93. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  94. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  95. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  96. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  97. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  98. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  99. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  100. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  101. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  102. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  103. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  104. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  105. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  106. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  107. Nikolai Gogol 1808–1809 – 1851–1852
  108. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  109. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  110. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  111. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  112. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  113. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  114. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  115. William Butler Yeats 1865 – 1939
  116. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  117. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  118. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  119. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  120. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  121. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  122. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  123. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  124. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  125. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  126. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  127. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  128. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  129. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  130. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  131. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  132. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  133. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  134. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  135. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  136. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  137. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  138. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  139. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  140. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  141. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  142. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  143. Aldous Huxley 1894 – 1963
  144. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  145. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  146. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  147. Pearl S. Buck 1892 – 1973
  148. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  149. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  150. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874

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