Who Was Alive
Emil Fischer
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Emil Fischer

German chemist

Born 9 October 1852 · died 15 July 1919, aged 66
Also known as Hermann Emil Louis Fischer, Hermann Emil Fischer

Who was alive at the same time as Emil Fischer?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  3. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  4. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  5. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  6. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  7. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  8. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  9. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  10. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  11. Emil Fischer, 1852 – 1919
  12. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  13. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  14. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  15. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  16. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  17. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  18. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  19. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  20. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  21. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  22. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  23. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  24. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013

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When Emil Fischer was born, Karl Marx was 34, Abraham Lincoln was 43, Leo Tolstoy was 24, Charles Darwin was 43 and Victor Hugo was 50.

When Emil Fischer died, Adolf Hitler was 30, Albert Einstein was 40, Ronald Reagan was 8, Vladimir Lenin was 49 and Nelson Mandela was under a year old.

Born during Emil Fischer’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Lenin, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin and Vincent van Gogh.

Not quite contemporaries: Elizabeth II was born about 7 years after Emil Fischer died, Martin Luther King Jr. was born about 10 years after Emil Fischer died, Marilyn Monroe was born about 7 years after Emil Fischer died and Che Guevara was born about 9 years after Emil Fischer died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,760 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Emil Fischer. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1886.

  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. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  21. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  22. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  23. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  24. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  25. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  26. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  27. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  28. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  29. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  30. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  31. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  32. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  33. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  34. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  35. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  36. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  37. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  38. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  39. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  40. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  41. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  42. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  43. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  44. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  45. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  46. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  47. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  48. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  49. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  50. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  51. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  52. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  53. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  54. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  55. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  56. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  57. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  58. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  59. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  60. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  61. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  62. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  63. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  64. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  65. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  66. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  67. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  68. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  69. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  70. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  71. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  72. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  73. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  74. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  75. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  76. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  77. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  78. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  79. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  80. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  81. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  82. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  83. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  84. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  85. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  86. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  87. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  88. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  89. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  90. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  91. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  92. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  93. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  94. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  95. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  96. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  97. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  98. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  99. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  100. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  101. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  102. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  103. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  104. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  105. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  106. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  107. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  108. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  109. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  110. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  111. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  112. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  113. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  114. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  115. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  116. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  117. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  118. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  119. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  120. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  121. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  122. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  123. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  124. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  125. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  126. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  127. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  128. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  129. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  130. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  131. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  132. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  133. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  134. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  135. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  136. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  137. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  138. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  139. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  140. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  141. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  142. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  143. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  144. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  145. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  146. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  147. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  148. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  149. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  150. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904