Who Was Alive
Hermann Minkowski
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Hermann Minkowski

Prussian mathematician and physicist

Born 22 June 1864 · died 12 January 1909, aged 44
Also known as Minkowski, Herman Minkowski

Who was alive at the same time as Hermann Minkowski?

  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. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  12. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  13. Hermann Minkowski, 1864 – 1909
  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 Hermann Minkowski was born, Karl Marx was 46, Abraham Lincoln was 55, Leo Tolstoy was 35, Charles Darwin was 55 and Victor Hugo was 62.

When Hermann Minkowski died, Adolf Hitler was 19, Albert Einstein was 29, Vladimir Lenin was 38, Mahatma Gandhi was 39 and Leo Tolstoy was 80.

Born during Hermann Minkowski’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, Pablo Picasso, Winston Churchill and Charlie Chaplin.

Not quite contemporaries: Ronald Reagan was born about 2 years after Hermann Minkowski died, Nelson Mandela was born about 9 years after Hermann Minkowski died, John F. Kennedy was born about 8 years after Hermann Minkowski died and Edgar Allan Poe died about 15 years before Hermann Minkowski was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,458 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Hermann Minkowski. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1887.

  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. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  46. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  47. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  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. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  66. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  67. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  68. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  69. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  70. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  71. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  72. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  73. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  74. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  75. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  76. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  77. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  78. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  79. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  80. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  81. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  82. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  83. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  84. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  85. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  86. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  87. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  88. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  89. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  90. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  91. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  92. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  93. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  94. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  95. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  96. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  97. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  98. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  99. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  100. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  101. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  102. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  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. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  109. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  110. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  111. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  112. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  113. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  114. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  115. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  116. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  117. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  118. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  119. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  120. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  121. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  122. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  123. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  124. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  125. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  126. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  127. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  128. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  129. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  130. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  131. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  132. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  133. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  134. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  135. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  136. John Steinbeck 1902 – 1968
  137. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  138. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  139. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  140. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  141. William Faulkner 1897 – 1962
  142. Sergei Eisenstein 1898 – 1948
  143. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  144. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  145. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  146. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  147. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  148. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  149. Aldous Huxley 1894 – 1963
  150. Pearl S. Buck 1892 – 1973