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Claude Bernard
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Claude Bernard

French physiologist

Born 12 July 1813 · died 10 February 1878, aged 64

Who was alive at the same time as Claude Bernard?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  2. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  3. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  4. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  5. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  6. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  7. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  8. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  9. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  10. Claude Bernard, 1813 – 1878
  11. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  12. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  13. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  14. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  15. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  16. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  17. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  18. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  19. Anton Chekhov, 1860 – 1904
  20. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  21. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  22. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  23. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  24. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965

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When Claude Bernard was born, Abraham Lincoln was 4, Napoleon was 43, Charles Darwin was 4, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 63 and Victor Hugo was 11.

When Claude Bernard died, Karl Marx was 59, Vladimir Lenin was 7, Mahatma Gandhi was 8, Leo Tolstoy was 49 and Charles Darwin was 68.

Born during Claude Bernard’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Vincent van Gogh, Winston Churchill, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Friedrich Nietzsche.

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler was born about 11 years after Claude Bernard died, Albert Einstein was born about a year after Claude Bernard died, Joseph Stalin was born months after Claude Bernard died and George Washington died about 14 years before Claude Bernard was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

970 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Claude Bernard. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1846.

  1. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  2. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  3. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  4. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  5. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  6. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  7. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  8. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  9. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  10. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  11. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  12. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  13. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  14. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  15. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  16. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  17. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  18. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  19. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  20. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  21. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  22. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  23. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  24. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  25. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  26. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  27. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  28. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  29. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  30. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  31. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  32. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  33. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  34. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  35. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  36. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  37. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  38. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  39. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  40. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  41. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  42. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  43. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  44. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  45. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  46. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  47. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  48. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  49. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  50. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  51. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  52. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  53. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  54. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  55. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  56. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  57. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  58. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  59. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  60. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  61. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  62. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  63. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  64. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  65. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  66. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  67. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  68. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  69. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  70. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  71. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  72. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  73. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  74. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  75. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  76. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  77. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  78. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  79. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  80. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  81. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  82. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  83. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  84. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  85. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  86. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  87. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  88. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  89. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  90. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  91. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  92. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  93. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  94. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  95. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  96. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  97. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  98. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  99. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  100. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  101. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  102. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  103. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  104. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  105. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  106. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  107. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  108. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  109. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  110. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  111. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  112. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  113. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  114. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  115. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  116. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  117. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  118. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  119. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  120. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  121. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  122. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  123. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  124. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  125. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  126. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  127. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  128. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  129. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  130. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  131. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  132. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  133. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  134. Warren G. Harding 1865 – 1923
  135. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  136. Romain Rolland 1866 – 1944
  137. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  138. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  139. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  140. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  141. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  142. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  143. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  144. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  145. Henri Bergson 1859 – 1941
  146. Swami Vivekananda 1863 – 1902
  147. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  148. Nicholas II 1868 – 1918
  149. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  150. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889