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Henri Moissan
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Henri Moissan

French chemist

Born 28 September 1852 · died 20 February 1907, aged 54

Who was alive at the same time as Henri Moissan?

  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. Henri Moissan, 1852 – 1907
  12. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  13. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  14. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  15. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  16. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  17. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  18. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  20. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  21. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  22. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  23. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  24. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989

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

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

Born during Henri Moissan’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 about 4 years after Henri Moissan died, Nelson Mandela was born about 11 years after Henri Moissan died, John F. Kennedy was born about 10 years after Henri Moissan died and Edgar Allan Poe died about 3 years before Henri Moissan was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,455 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Henri Moissan. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1880.

  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. 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 Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  16. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  17. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  18. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  20. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  21. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  22. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  23. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  24. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  25. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  26. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  27. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  28. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  29. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  30. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  31. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  32. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  33. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  34. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  35. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  36. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  37. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  38. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  39. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  40. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  41. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  42. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  43. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  44. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  45. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  46. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  47. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  48. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  49. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  50. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  51. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  52. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  53. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  54. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  55. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  56. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  57. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  58. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  59. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  60. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  61. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  62. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  63. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  64. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  65. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  66. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  67. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  68. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  69. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  70. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  71. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  72. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  73. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  74. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  75. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  76. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  77. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  78. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  79. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  80. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  81. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  82. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  83. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  84. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  85. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  86. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  87. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  88. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  89. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  90. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  91. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  92. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  93. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  94. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  95. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  96. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  97. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  98. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  99. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  100. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  101. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  102. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  103. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  104. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  105. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  106. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  107. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  108. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  109. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  110. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  111. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  112. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  113. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  114. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  115. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  116. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  117. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  118. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  119. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  120. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  121. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  122. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  123. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  124. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  125. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  126. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  127. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  128. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  129. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  130. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  131. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  132. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  133. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  134. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  135. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  136. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  137. John Steinbeck 1902 – 1968
  138. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  139. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  140. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  141. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  142. William Faulkner 1897 – 1962
  143. Sergei Eisenstein 1898 – 1948
  144. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  145. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  146. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  147. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  148. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  149. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  150. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891