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Alois Alzheimer
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Alois Alzheimer

German psychiatrist and neurologist

Born 14 June 1864 · died 19 December 1915, aged 51
Also known as Aloys Alzheimer

Who was alive at the same time as Alois Alzheimer?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  3. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  4. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  5. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  6. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  7. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  8. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  9. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  10. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  11. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  12. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  13. Alois Alzheimer, 1864 – 1915
  14. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  15. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  16. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  17. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  18. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  20. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  21. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  22. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  23. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  24. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004

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When Alois Alzheimer was born, Karl Marx was 46, Abraham Lincoln was 55, Leo Tolstoy was 35, Charles Darwin was 55 and Victor Hugo was 62.

When Alois Alzheimer died, Adolf Hitler was 26, Albert Einstein was 36, Ronald Reagan was 4, Vladimir Lenin was 45 and Mahatma Gandhi was 46.

Born during Alois Alzheimer’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, Pablo Picasso and Winston Churchill.

Not quite contemporaries: Nelson Mandela was born about 3 years after Alois Alzheimer died, Elizabeth II was born about 11 years after Alois Alzheimer died, John F. Kennedy was born about 2 years after Alois Alzheimer died and Martin Luther King Jr. was born about 14 years after Alois Alzheimer died.

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Where Alois Alzheimer’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,613 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Alois Alzheimer. 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. 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. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  24. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  25. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  26. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  27. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  28. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  29. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  30. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  31. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  32. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  33. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  34. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  35. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  36. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  37. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  38. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  39. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  40. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  41. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  42. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  43. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  44. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  45. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  46. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  47. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  48. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  49. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  50. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  51. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  52. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  53. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  54. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  55. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  56. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  57. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  58. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  59. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  60. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  61. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  62. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  63. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  64. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  65. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  66. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  67. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  68. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  69. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  70. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  71. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  72. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  73. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  74. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  75. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  76. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  77. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  78. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  79. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  80. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  81. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  82. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  83. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  84. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  85. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  86. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  87. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  88. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  89. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  90. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  91. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  92. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  93. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  94. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  95. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  96. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  97. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  98. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  99. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  100. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  101. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  102. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  103. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  104. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  105. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  106. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  107. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  108. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  109. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  110. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  111. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  112. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  113. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  114. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  115. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  116. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  117. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  118. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  119. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  120. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  121. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  122. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  123. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  124. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  125. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  126. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  127. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  128. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  129. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  130. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  131. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  132. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  133. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  134. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  135. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  136. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  137. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  138. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  139. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  140. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  141. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  142. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  143. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  144. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  145. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  146. John Steinbeck 1902 – 1968
  147. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  148. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  149. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  150. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967