Who Was Alive
Gustav Fechner
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Gustav Fechner

Prussian physicist

Born 19 April 1801 · died 18 November 1887, aged 86
Also known as Gustav Theodor Fechner

Who was alive at the same time as Gustav Fechner?

  1. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  3. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  4. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  5. Gustav Fechner, 1801 – 1887
  6. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  7. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  8. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  9. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  10. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  11. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  12. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  13. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  14. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  15. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  16. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  17. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  18. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  19. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  20. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  21. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  22. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  23. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  24. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973

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When Gustav Fechner was born, Napoleon was 31, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 51, Immanuel Kant was 76, Alexander Pushkin was 1 and Thomas Jefferson was 58.

When Gustav Fechner died, Albert Einstein was 8, Vladimir Lenin was 17, Mahatma Gandhi was 18, Leo Tolstoy was 59 and Joseph Stalin was 8.

Born during Gustav Fechner’s lifetime: Albert Einstein, Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin and Joseph Stalin.

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler was born about 2 years after Gustav Fechner died, George Washington died about 2 years before Gustav Fechner was born, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died about 10 years before Gustav Fechner was born and Charlie Chaplin was born about 2 years after Gustav Fechner died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,175 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Gustav Fechner. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1844.

  1. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  2. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  3. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  4. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  5. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  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. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  17. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  18. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  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. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  26. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  27. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  28. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  29. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  30. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  31. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  32. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  33. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  34. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  35. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  36. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  37. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  38. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  39. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  40. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  41. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  42. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  43. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  44. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  45. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  46. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  47. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  48. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  49. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  50. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  51. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  52. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  53. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  54. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  55. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  56. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  57. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  58. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  59. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  60. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  61. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  62. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  63. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  64. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  65. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  66. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  67. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  68. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  69. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  70. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  71. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  72. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  73. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  74. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  75. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  76. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  77. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  78. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  79. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  80. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  81. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  82. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  83. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  84. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  85. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  86. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  87. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  88. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  89. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  90. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  91. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  92. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  93. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  94. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  95. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  96. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  97. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  98. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  99. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  100. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  101. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  102. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  103. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  104. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  105. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  106. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  107. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  108. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  109. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  110. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  111. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  112. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  113. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  114. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  115. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  116. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  117. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  118. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  119. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  120. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  121. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  122. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  123. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  124. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  125. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  126. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  127. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  128. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  129. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  130. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  131. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  132. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  133. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  134. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  135. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  136. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  137. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  138. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  139. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  140. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  141. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  142. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  143. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  144. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  145. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  146. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  147. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  148. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  149. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  150. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876