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Alfred Werner
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Alfred Werner

Swiss chemist

Born 12 December 1866 · died 15 November 1919, aged 52

Who was alive at the same time as Alfred Werner?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  3. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  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. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  12. Alfred Werner, 1866 – 1919
  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. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  24. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013

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When Alfred Werner was born, Karl Marx was 48, Leo Tolstoy was 38, Charles Darwin was 57, Victor Hugo was 64 and Vincent van Gogh was 13.

When Alfred Werner died, Adolf Hitler was 30, Albert Einstein was 40, Ronald Reagan was 8, Vladimir Lenin was 49 and Nelson Mandela was 1.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Abraham Lincoln died about a year before Alfred Werner was born, Elizabeth II was born about 7 years after Alfred Werner died, Martin Luther King Jr. was born about 10 years after Alfred Werner died and Marilyn Monroe was born about 7 years after Alfred Werner died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,702 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Alfred Werner. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1893.

  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. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  19. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  21. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  22. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  23. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  24. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  25. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  26. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  27. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  28. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  29. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  30. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  31. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  32. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  33. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  34. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  35. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  36. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  37. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  38. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  39. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  40. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  41. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  42. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  43. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  44. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  45. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  46. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  47. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  48. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  49. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  50. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  51. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  52. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  53. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  54. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  55. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  56. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  57. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  58. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  59. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  60. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  61. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  62. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  63. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  64. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  65. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  66. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  67. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  68. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  69. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  70. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  71. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  72. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  73. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  74. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  75. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  76. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  77. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  78. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  79. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  80. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  81. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  82. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  83. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  84. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  85. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  86. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  87. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  88. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  89. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  90. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  91. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  92. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  93. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  94. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  95. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  96. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  97. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  98. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  99. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  100. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  101. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  102. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  103. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  104. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  105. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  106. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  107. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  108. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  109. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  110. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  111. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  112. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  113. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  114. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  115. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  116. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  117. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  118. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  119. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  120. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  121. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  122. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  123. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  124. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  125. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  126. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  127. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  128. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  129. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  130. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  131. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  132. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  133. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  134. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  135. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  136. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  137. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  138. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  139. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  140. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  141. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  142. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  143. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  144. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  145. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  146. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  147. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  148. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  149. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  150. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976