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August Kekulé
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August Kekulé

Prussian chemist

Born 7 September 1829 · died 13 July 1896, aged 66
Also known as Auguste Kékulé von Stradonitz, Friedrich Kekule, Friedrich Kekulé

Who was alive at the same time as August Kekulé?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  2. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  3. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  4. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  5. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  6. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  7. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  8. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  9. August Kekulé, 1829 – 1896
  10. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  11. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  12. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  13. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  14. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  15. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  16. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  17. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  18. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  19. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  21. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  22. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  23. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  24. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945

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When August Kekulé was born, Karl Marx was 11, Abraham Lincoln was 20, Leo Tolstoy was under a year old, Charles Darwin was 20 and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 80.

When August Kekulé died, Adolf Hitler was 7, Albert Einstein was 17, Vladimir Lenin was 26, Mahatma Gandhi was 26 and Leo Tolstoy was 67.

Born during August Kekulé’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and Winston Churchill.

Not quite contemporaries: Ronald Reagan was born about 15 years after August Kekulé died, Napoleon died about 8 years before August Kekulé was born, Ludwig van Beethoven died about 2 years before August Kekulé was born and Salvador Dalí was born about 8 years after August Kekulé died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,283 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as August Kekulé. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1863.

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  5. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  6. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  7. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  8. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  9. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  10. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  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. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  25. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  26. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  27. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  28. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  29. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  30. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  31. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  32. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  33. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  34. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  35. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  36. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  37. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  38. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  39. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  40. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  41. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  42. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  43. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  44. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  45. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  46. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  47. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  48. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  49. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  50. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  51. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  52. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  53. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  54. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  55. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  56. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  57. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  58. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  59. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  60. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  61. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  62. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  63. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  64. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  65. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  66. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  67. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  68. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  69. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  70. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  71. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  72. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  73. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  74. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  75. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  76. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  77. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  78. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  79. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  80. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  81. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  82. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  83. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  84. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  85. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  86. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  87. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  88. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  89. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  90. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  91. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  92. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  93. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  94. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  95. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  96. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  97. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  98. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  99. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  100. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  101. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  102. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  103. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  104. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  105. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  106. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  107. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  108. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  109. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  110. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  111. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  112. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  113. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  114. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  115. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  116. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  117. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  118. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  119. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  120. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  121. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  122. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  123. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  124. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  125. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  126. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  127. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  128. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  129. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  130. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  131. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  132. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  133. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  134. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  135. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  136. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  137. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  138. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  139. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  140. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  141. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  142. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  143. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  144. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  145. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  146. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  147. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  148. Aldous Huxley 1894 – 1963
  149. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  150. Pearl S. Buck 1892 – 1973