Who Was Alive

Dmitri Mendeleev

Russian chemist

Born 27 January 1834 (Julian calendar) · died 20 January 1907 (Julian calendar), aged 72

Who was alive at the same time as Dmitri Mendeleev?

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Abraham Lincoln
  3. Charles Darwin
  4. Charles Dickens
  5. Karl Marx
  6. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  7. Leo Tolstoy
  8. Dmitri Mendeleev
  9. Mark Twain
  10. Friedrich Nietzsche
  11. Thomas Edison
  12. Vincent van Gogh
  13. Sigmund Freud
  14. Marie Curie
  15. Mahatma Gandhi
  16. Vladimir Lenin
  17. Winston Churchill
  18. Joseph Stalin
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  20. Albert Einstein
  21. Pablo Picasso
  22. Charlie Chaplin
  23. Adolf Hitler
  24. Salvador Dalí
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When Dmitri Mendeleev was born, Karl Marx was 15, Abraham Lincoln was 24, Leo Tolstoy was 5, Charles Darwin was 24 and Victor Hugo was 31.

When Dmitri Mendeleev died, Adolf Hitler was 17, Albert Einstein was 27, Vladimir Lenin was 36, Mahatma Gandhi was 37 and Leo Tolstoy was 78.

Born during Dmitri Mendeleev’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 4 years after Dmitri Mendeleev died, Nelson Mandela was born 11 years after Dmitri Mendeleev died, Napoleon died 13 years before Dmitri Mendeleev was born and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died 2 years before Dmitri Mendeleev was born.

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  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
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  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. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  11. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  12. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  13. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  14. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  15. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  16. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  17. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  18. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  19. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  21. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  22. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  23. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
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  25. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
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  29. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
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  35. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
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