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Allvar Gullstrand
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Allvar Gullstrand

Swedish ophthalmologist

Born 5 June 1862 · died 28 July 1930, aged 68

Who was alive at the same time as Allvar Gullstrand?

  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. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  12. Allvar Gullstrand, 1862 – 1930
  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 Allvar Gullstrand was born, Karl Marx was 44, Abraham Lincoln was 53, Leo Tolstoy was 33, Charles Darwin was 53 and Victor Hugo was 60.

When Allvar Gullstrand died, Adolf Hitler was 41, Albert Einstein was 51, Ronald Reagan was 19, Nelson Mandela was 12 and Mahatma Gandhi was 60.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Joe Biden was born about 12 years after Allvar Gullstrand died, Pope Francis was born about 6 years after Allvar Gullstrand died, Edgar Allan Poe died about 13 years before Allvar Gullstrand was born and Neil Armstrong was born months after Allvar Gullstrand died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,115 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Allvar Gullstrand. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1896.

  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. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  28. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  29. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  30. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  31. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  32. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  33. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  34. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  35. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  36. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  37. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  38. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  39. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  40. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  41. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  42. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  43. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  44. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  45. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  46. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  47. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  48. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  49. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  50. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  51. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  52. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  53. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  54. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  55. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  56. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  57. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  58. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  59. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  60. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  61. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  62. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  63. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  64. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  65. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  66. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  67. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  68. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  69. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  70. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  71. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  72. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  73. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  74. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  75. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  76. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  77. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  78. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  79. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  80. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  81. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  82. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  83. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  84. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  85. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  86. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  87. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  88. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  89. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  90. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  91. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  92. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  93. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  94. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  95. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  96. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  97. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  98. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  99. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  100. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  101. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  102. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  103. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  104. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  105. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  106. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  107. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  108. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  109. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  110. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  111. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  112. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  113. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  114. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  115. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  116. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  117. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  118. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  119. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  120. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  121. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  122. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  123. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  124. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  125. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  126. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  127. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  128. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  129. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  130. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  131. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  132. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  133. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  134. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  135. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  136. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  137. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  138. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  139. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  140. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  141. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  142. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  143. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  144. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  145. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  146. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  147. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  148. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  149. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  150. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882