Who Was Alive
Alfred Wegener
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Alfred Wegener

German climatologist and geophysicist

Born 1 November 1880 · died November 1930, aged 50

Who was alive at the same time as Alfred Wegener?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  3. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  4. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  5. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  6. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  7. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  8. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  9. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  10. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  11. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  12. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  13. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  14. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  15. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  16. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  17. Alfred Wegener, 1880 – 1930
  18. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  19. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  20. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  21. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  22. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  23. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  24. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022

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When Alfred Wegener was born, Albert Einstein was 1, Karl Marx was 62, Vladimir Lenin was 10, Mahatma Gandhi was 11 and Leo Tolstoy was 52.

When Alfred Wegener died, Adolf Hitler was 41, Albert Einstein was 51, Ronald Reagan was 19, Nelson Mandela was 12 and Mahatma Gandhi was 61.

Born during Alfred Wegener’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Pablo Picasso, Charlie Chaplin, Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr..

Not quite contemporaries: Joe Biden was born about 12 years after Alfred Wegener died, Charles Dickens died about 10 years before Alfred Wegener was born, Hans Christian Andersen died about 5 years before Alfred Wegener was born and Pope Francis was born about 6 years after Alfred Wegener died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,034 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Alfred Wegener. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1905.

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  5. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  6. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  7. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  8. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  9. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  10. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  11. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  12. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  13. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  14. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  15. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  16. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  17. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  18. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  19. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  21. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  22. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  23. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  24. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  25. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  26. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  27. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  28. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  29. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  30. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  31. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  32. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  33. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  34. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  35. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  36. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  37. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  38. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  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. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  56. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  57. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  58. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  59. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  60. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  61. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  62. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  63. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  64. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  65. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  66. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  67. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  68. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  69. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  70. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  71. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  72. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  73. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  74. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  75. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  76. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  77. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  78. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  79. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  80. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  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. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  92. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  93. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  94. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  95. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  96. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  97. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  98. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  99. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  100. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  101. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  102. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  103. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  104. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  105. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  106. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  107. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  108. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  109. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  110. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  111. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  112. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  113. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  114. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  115. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  116. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  117. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  118. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  119. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  120. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  121. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  122. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  123. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  124. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  125. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  126. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  127. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  128. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  129. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  130. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  131. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  132. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  133. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  134. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  135. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  136. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  137. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  138. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  139. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  140. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  141. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  142. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  143. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  144. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  145. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  146. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  147. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  148. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  149. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  150. Yasser Arafat 1929 – 2004