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Frits Zernike
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Frits Zernike

Dutch physicist

Born 16 July 1888 · died 10 March 1966, aged 77

Who was alive at the same time as Frits Zernike?

  1. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  2. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  3. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  4. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  5. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  6. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  7. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  8. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  9. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  10. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  11. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  12. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  13. Frits Zernike, 1888 – 1966
  14. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  15. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  16. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  17. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  18. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  19. Joe Biden, born 1942
  20. Donald Trump, born 1946
  21. George W. Bush, born 1946
  22. Vladimir Putin, born 1952
  23. Michael Jackson, 1958 – 2009
  24. Barack Obama, born 1961

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When Frits Zernike was born, Albert Einstein was 9, Vladimir Lenin was 18, Mahatma Gandhi was 18, Leo Tolstoy was 59 and Joseph Stalin was 9.

When Frits Zernike died, Barack Obama was 4, Donald Trump was 19, Michael Jackson was 7, Vladimir Putin was 13 and Ronald Reagan was 55.

Born during Frits Zernike’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela and George W. Bush.

Not quite contemporaries: Karl Marx died about 5 years before Frits Zernike was born, Charles Darwin died about 6 years before Frits Zernike was born, Victor Hugo died about 3 years before Frits Zernike was born and Fyodor Dostoevsky died about 7 years before Frits Zernike was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

3,567 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Frits Zernike. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1927.

  1. Barack Obama born 1961
  2. Donald Trump born 1946
  3. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  4. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  5. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  6. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  7. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  8. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  9. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  10. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  11. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  12. George W. Bush born 1946
  13. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  14. Joe Biden born 1942
  15. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  16. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  17. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  18. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  19. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  20. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  21. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  22. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  23. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  24. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  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. Bill Gates born 1955
  32. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  33. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  34. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  35. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  36. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  37. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  38. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  39. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  40. Bill Clinton born 1946
  41. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  42. Angela Merkel born 1954
  43. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  44. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  45. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  46. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  47. François Hollande born 1954
  48. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  49. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  50. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  51. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  52. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  53. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  54. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  55. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  56. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  57. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  58. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  59. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  60. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  61. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  62. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  63. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  64. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  65. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  66. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  67. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  68. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  69. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  70. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  71. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  72. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  73. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  74. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  75. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  76. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  77. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  78. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  79. Madonna born 1958
  80. Kamala Harris born 1964
  81. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  82. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  83. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  84. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  85. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  86. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  87. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  88. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  89. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  90. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  91. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  92. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  93. Xi Jinping born 1953
  94. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  95. Naruhito born 1960
  96. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  97. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  98. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  99. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  100. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  101. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  102. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  103. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  104. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  105. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  106. Bob Dylan born 1941
  107. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  108. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  109. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  110. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  111. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  112. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  113. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  114. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  115. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  116. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  117. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  118. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  119. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  120. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  121. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  122. Charles III born 1948
  123. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  124. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  125. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  126. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  127. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  128. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  129. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  130. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  131. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  132. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  133. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  134. Narendra Modi born 1950
  135. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  136. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  137. Rafael Correa born 1963
  138. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  139. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  140. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  141. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  142. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  143. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  144. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  145. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  146. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  147. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  148. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  149. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  150. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946