Who Was Alive

James Prescott Joule

English physicist and brewer

Born 24 December 1818 · died 11 October 1889, aged 70

Who was alive at the same time as James Prescott Joule?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  2. Ludwig van Beethoven
  3. Napoleon
  4. Victor Hugo
  5. Abraham Lincoln
  6. Charles Darwin
  7. Karl Marx
  8. James Prescott Joule
  9. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  10. Leo Tolstoy
  11. Mark Twain
  12. Friedrich Nietzsche
  13. Thomas Edison
  14. Vincent van Gogh
  15. Sigmund Freud
  16. Mahatma Gandhi
  17. Vladimir Lenin
  18. Winston Churchill
  19. Joseph Stalin
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  21. Albert Einstein
  22. Pablo Picasso
  23. Charlie Chaplin
  24. Adolf Hitler
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When James Prescott Joule was born, Karl Marx was under a year old, Abraham Lincoln was 9, Napoleon was 49, Charles Darwin was 9 and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 69.

When James Prescott Joule died, Adolf Hitler was under a year old, Albert Einstein was 10, Vladimir Lenin was 19, Mahatma Gandhi was 20 and Leo Tolstoy was 61.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Immanuel Kant died 14 years before James Prescott Joule was born, Salvador Dalí was born 15 years after James Prescott Joule died, Mao Zedong was born 4 years after James Prescott Joule died and Charles de Gaulle was born about a year after James Prescott Joule died.

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  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. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  7. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  8. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  9. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  10. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  11. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  12. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  13. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  14. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  15. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  16. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  17. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  18. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  19. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  20. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  21. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  22. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  23. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  24. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  25. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  26. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  27. Franklin Delano 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. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  33. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  34. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  35. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  36. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  37. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  38. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  39. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  40. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  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. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  55. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  56. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  57. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  58. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  59. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  60. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  61. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  62. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  63. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  64. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
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  66. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  67. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
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  74. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
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  78. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
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  80. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  81. Victoria 1819 – 1901
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  85. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
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  120. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  121. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
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  126. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  127. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  128. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  129. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  130. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  131. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
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