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Francis Galton
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Francis Galton

British geneticist

Born 16 February 1822 · died 17 January 1911, aged 88
Also known as Sir Francis Galton, F. G.

Who was alive at the same time as Francis Galton?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  2. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  3. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  4. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  5. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  6. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  7. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  8. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  9. Francis Galton, 1822 – 1911
  10. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  11. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  12. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  13. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  14. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  15. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  16. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  17. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  18. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  19. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  21. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  22. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  23. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  24. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945

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When Francis Galton was born, Karl Marx was 3, Abraham Lincoln was 13, Charles Darwin was 13, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 72 and Victor Hugo was 19.

When Francis Galton died, Adolf Hitler was 21, Albert Einstein was 31, Vladimir Lenin was 40, Mahatma Gandhi was 41 and Joseph Stalin was 32.

Born during Francis Galton’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso.

Not quite contemporaries: Ronald Reagan was born months after Francis Galton died, Nelson Mandela was born about 7 years after Francis Galton died, Napoleon died about a year before Francis Galton was born and John F. Kennedy was born about 6 years after Francis Galton died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,708 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Francis Galton. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1867.

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  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. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  11. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  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. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  25. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  26. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  27. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  28. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  29. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  30. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  31. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  32. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  33. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  34. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  35. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  36. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  37. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  38. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  39. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  40. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  41. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  42. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  43. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  44. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  45. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  46. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  47. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  48. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  49. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  50. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  51. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  52. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  53. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  54. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  55. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  56. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  57. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  58. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  59. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  60. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  61. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  62. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  63. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  64. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  65. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  66. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  67. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  68. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  69. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  70. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  71. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  72. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  73. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  74. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  75. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  76. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  77. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  78. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  79. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  80. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  81. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  82. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  83. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  84. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  85. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  86. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  87. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  88. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  89. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  90. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  91. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  92. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  93. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  94. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  95. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  96. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  97. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  98. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  99. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  100. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  101. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  102. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  103. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  104. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  105. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  106. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  107. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  108. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  109. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  110. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  111. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  112. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  113. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  114. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  115. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  116. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  117. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  118. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  119. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  120. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  121. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  122. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  123. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  124. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  125. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  126. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  127. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  128. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  129. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  130. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  131. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  132. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  133. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  134. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  135. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  136. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  137. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  138. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  139. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  140. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  141. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  142. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  143. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  144. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  145. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  146. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  147. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  148. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  149. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  150. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961