Who Was Alive

Christiaan Eijkman

Dutch physician

Born 11 August 1858 · died 5 November 1930, aged 72
Also known as C. Eijkman, Christiaan Eykman, C. Eykman

Who was alive at the same time as Christiaan Eijkman?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  3. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  4. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  5. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  6. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  7. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  8. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  9. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  10. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  11. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  12. Christiaan Eijkman, 1858 – 1930
  13. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  14. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  15. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  16. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  17. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  18. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  19. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  20. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  21. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  22. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  23. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  24. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022

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When Christiaan Eijkman was born, Karl Marx was 40, Abraham Lincoln was 49, Leo Tolstoy was 29, Charles Darwin was 49 and Victor Hugo was 56.

When Christiaan Eijkman died, Adolf Hitler was 41, Albert Einstein was 51, Ronald Reagan was 19, Nelson Mandela was 12 and Mahatma Gandhi was 61.

Born during Christiaan Eijkman’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Lenin, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin and Pablo Picasso.

Not quite contemporaries: Joe Biden was born about 12 years after Christiaan Eijkman died, Pope Francis was born about 6 years after Christiaan Eijkman died, Edgar Allan Poe died about 9 years before Christiaan Eijkman was born and Elvis Presley was born about 5 years after Christiaan Eijkman died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,152 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Christiaan Eijkman. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1894.

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  5. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  6. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  7. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  8. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  9. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  10. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  11. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  12. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  13. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  14. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  15. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  16. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  17. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  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. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  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. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  32. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  33. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  34. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  35. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  36. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  37. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  38. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  39. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  40. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  41. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  42. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  43. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  44. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  45. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  46. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  47. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  48. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  49. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  50. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  51. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  52. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  53. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  54. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  55. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  56. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  57. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  58. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  59. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  60. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  61. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  62. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  63. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  64. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  65. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  66. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  67. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  68. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  69. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  70. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  71. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  72. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  73. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  74. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  75. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  76. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  77. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  78. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  79. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  80. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  81. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  82. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  83. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  84. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  85. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  86. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  87. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  88. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  89. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  90. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  91. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  92. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  93. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  94. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  95. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  96. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  97. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  98. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  99. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  100. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  101. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  102. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  103. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  104. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  105. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  106. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  107. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  108. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  109. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  110. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  111. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  112. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  113. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  114. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  115. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  116. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  117. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  118. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  119. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  120. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  121. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  122. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  123. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  124. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  125. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  126. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  127. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  128. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  129. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  130. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  131. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  132. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  133. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  134. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  135. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  136. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  137. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  138. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  139. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  140. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  141. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  142. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  143. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  144. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  145. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  146. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  147. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  148. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  149. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  150. Hirohito 1901 – 1989