Who Was Alive

Amedeo Avogadro

Italian scientist

Born 9 August 1776 · died 9 July 1856, aged 79

Who was alive at the same time as Amedeo Avogadro?

  1. Voltaire
  2. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  3. Immanuel Kant
  4. George Washington
  5. Thomas Jefferson
  6. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  7. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  8. Ludwig van Beethoven
  9. Napoleon
  10. Amedeo Avogadro
  11. Alexander Pushkin
  12. Victor Hugo
  13. Hans Christian Andersen
  14. Abraham Lincoln
  15. Charles Darwin
  16. Charles Dickens
  17. Karl Marx
  18. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  19. Leo Tolstoy
  20. Mark Twain
  21. Friedrich Nietzsche
  22. Thomas Edison
  23. Vincent van Gogh
  24. Sigmund Freud
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When Amedeo Avogadro was born, Napoleon was 6, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 26, George Washington was 44, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 20 and Voltaire was 81.

When Amedeo Avogadro died, Karl Marx was 38, Abraham Lincoln was 47, Leo Tolstoy was 27, Charles Darwin was 47 and Victor Hugo was 54.

Born during Amedeo Avogadro’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Vincent van Gogh, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Friedrich Nietzsche.

Not quite contemporaries: Vladimir Lenin was born 14 years after Amedeo Avogadro died, Mahatma Gandhi was born 13 years after Amedeo Avogadro died, Marie Curie was born 11 years after Amedeo Avogadro died and Rabindranath Tagore was born 5 years after Amedeo Avogadro died.

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  2. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  3. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  4. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  5. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  6. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  7. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  8. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  9. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  10. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  11. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  12. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  13. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  14. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  15. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  16. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  17. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  18. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
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  20. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  21. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
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  23. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  24. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
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