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Charles Richter
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Charles Richter

American seismologist

Born 26 April 1900 · died 30 September 1985, aged 85
Also known as Charles Francis Richter, Charles F Richter, C. F. Richter

Who was alive at the same time as Charles Richter?

  1. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  2. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  3. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  4. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  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. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  14. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  15. Charles Richter, 1900 – 1985
  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 Charles Richter was born, Adolf Hitler was 11, Albert Einstein was 21, Vladimir Lenin was 30, Mahatma Gandhi was 30 and Leo Tolstoy was 71.

When Charles Richter died, Barack Obama was 24, Donald Trump was 39, Michael Jackson was 27, Vladimir Putin was 32 and Ronald Reagan was 74.

Born during Charles Richter’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush and Joe Biden.

Not quite contemporaries: Victor Hugo died about 15 years before Charles Richter was born, Vincent van Gogh died about 10 years before Charles Richter was born, Lionel Messi was born about 2 years after Charles Richter died and Corbin Bleu was born about 4 years after Charles Richter died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

4,268 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Charles Richter. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1943.

  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. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  16. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  17. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  18. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  19. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  20. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  21. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  22. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  23. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  24. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  25. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  26. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  27. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  28. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  29. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  30. Bill Gates born 1955
  31. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  32. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  33. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  34. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  35. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  36. Shakira born 1977
  37. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  38. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  39. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  40. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  41. Bill Clinton born 1946
  42. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  43. Basshunter born 1984
  44. Angela Merkel born 1954
  45. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  46. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  47. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  48. François Hollande born 1954
  49. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  50. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  51. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  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. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  70. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  71. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  72. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  73. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  74. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  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. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  85. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  86. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  87. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  88. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  89. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  90. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  91. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  92. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  93. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  94. Xi Jinping born 1953
  95. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  96. Naruhito born 1960
  97. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  98. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  99. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  100. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  101. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  102. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  103. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  104. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  105. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  106. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  107. Bob Dylan born 1941
  108. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  109. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  110. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  111. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  112. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  113. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  114. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  115. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  116. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  117. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  118. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  119. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  120. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  121. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  122. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  123. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  124. Charles III born 1948
  125. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  126. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  127. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  128. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  129. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  130. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  131. Kim Jong Un born 1984
  132. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  133. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  134. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  135. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  136. Eminem born 1972
  137. Beyoncé born 1981
  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