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Archibald Hill
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Archibald Hill

British physiologist and biophysicist

Born 26 September 1886 · died 3 June 1977, aged 90
Also known as A. V. Hill, Sir Archibald Hill

Who was alive at the same time as Archibald Hill?

  1. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  2. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  3. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  4. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  5. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  6. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  7. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  8. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  9. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  10. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  11. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  12. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  13. Archibald Hill, 1886 – 1977
  14. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  15. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  16. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  17. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  18. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  19. Joe Biden, born 1942
  20. Donald Trump, born 1946
  21. George W. Bush, born 1946
  22. Vladimir Putin, born 1952
  23. Michael Jackson, 1958 – 2009
  24. Barack Obama, born 1961

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When Archibald Hill was born, Albert Einstein was 7, Vladimir Lenin was 16, Mahatma Gandhi was 16, Leo Tolstoy was 58 and Joseph Stalin was 7.

When Archibald Hill died, Barack Obama was 15, Donald Trump was 30, Michael Jackson was 18, Vladimir Putin was 24 and Ronald Reagan was 66.

Born during Archibald Hill’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela and George W. Bush.

Not quite contemporaries: Karl Marx died about 3 years before Archibald Hill was born, Charles Darwin died about 4 years before Archibald Hill was born, Victor Hugo died about a year before Archibald Hill was born and Fyodor Dostoevsky died about 5 years before Archibald Hill was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

4,046 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Archibald Hill. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1932.

  1. Barack Obama born 1961
  2. Donald Trump born 1946
  3. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  4. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  5. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  6. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  7. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  8. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  9. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  10. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  11. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  12. George W. Bush born 1946
  13. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  14. Joe Biden born 1942
  15. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  16. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  17. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  18. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  19. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  20. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  21. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  22. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  23. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  24. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  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. Bill Gates born 1955
  32. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  33. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  34. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  35. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  36. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  37. Shakira born 1977
  38. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  39. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  40. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  41. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  42. Bill Clinton born 1946
  43. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  44. Angela Merkel born 1954
  45. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  46. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  47. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  48. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  49. François Hollande born 1954
  50. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  51. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  52. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  53. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  54. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  55. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  56. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  57. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  58. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  59. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  60. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  61. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  62. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  63. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  64. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  65. Elon Musk born 1971
  66. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  67. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  68. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  69. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  70. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  71. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  72. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  73. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  74. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  75. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  76. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  77. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  78. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  79. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  80. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  81. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  82. Madonna born 1958
  83. Kamala Harris born 1964
  84. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  85. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  86. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  87. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  88. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  89. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  90. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  91. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  92. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  93. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  94. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  95. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  96. Xi Jinping born 1953
  97. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  98. Naruhito born 1960
  99. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  100. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  101. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  102. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  103. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  104. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  105. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  106. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  107. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  108. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  109. Bob Dylan born 1941
  110. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  111. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  112. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  113. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  114. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  115. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  116. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  117. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  118. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  119. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  120. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  121. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  122. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  123. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  124. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  125. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  126. Charles III born 1948
  127. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  128. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  129. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  130. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  131. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  132. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  133. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  134. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  135. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  136. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  137. Eminem born 1972
  138. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  139. Narendra Modi born 1950
  140. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  141. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  142. Rafael Correa born 1963
  143. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  144. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  145. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  146. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  147. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  148. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  149. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  150. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006