Who Was Alive

Charles Thomson Rees Wilson

Scottish physicist and meteorologist

Born 14 February 1869 · died 15 November 1959, aged 90

Who was alive at the same time as Charles Thomson Rees Wilson?

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Charles Darwin
  3. Karl Marx
  4. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  5. Leo Tolstoy
  6. Friedrich Nietzsche
  7. Vincent van Gogh
  8. Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
  9. Mahatma Gandhi
  10. Vladimir Lenin
  11. Winston Churchill
  12. Joseph Stalin
  13. Albert Einstein
  14. Pablo Picasso
  15. Charlie Chaplin
  16. Adolf Hitler
  17. Ronald Reagan
  18. Nelson Mandela
  19. Elizabeth II
  20. Joe Biden
  21. Donald Trump
  22. George W. Bush
  23. Vladimir Putin
  24. Michael Jackson
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When Charles Thomson Rees Wilson was born, Karl Marx was 50, Leo Tolstoy was 40, Charles Darwin was 60, Victor Hugo was 66 and Vincent van Gogh was 15.

When Charles Thomson Rees Wilson died, Donald Trump was 13, Michael Jackson was 1, Vladimir Putin was 7, Ronald Reagan was 48 and Nelson Mandela was 41.

Born during Charles Thomson Rees Wilson’s lifetime: Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler, Michael Jackson, Albert Einstein, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Lenin and Nelson Mandela.

Not quite contemporaries: Barack Obama was born 2 years after Charles Thomson Rees Wilson died, Abraham Lincoln died 4 years before Charles Thomson Rees Wilson was born, Jimmy Wales was born 7 years after Charles Thomson Rees Wilson died and Elon Musk was born 12 years after Charles Thomson Rees Wilson died.

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  8. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
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  14. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
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  17. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  18. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
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  20. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
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