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Johann Gottfried Galle
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Johann Gottfried Galle

Prussian astronomer

Born 9 June 1812 · died 10 July 1910, aged 98

Who was alive at the same time as Johann Gottfried Galle?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  2. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  3. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  4. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  5. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  6. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  7. Johann Gottfried Galle, 1812 – 1910
  8. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  9. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  10. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  11. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  12. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  13. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  14. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  15. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  16. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  17. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  18. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  19. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  21. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  22. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  23. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  24. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945

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When Johann Gottfried Galle was born, Abraham Lincoln was 3, Napoleon was 42, Charles Darwin was 3, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 62 and Victor Hugo was 10.

When Johann Gottfried Galle died, Adolf Hitler was 21, Albert Einstein was 31, Vladimir Lenin was 40, Mahatma Gandhi was 40 and Leo Tolstoy was 81.

Born during Johann Gottfried Galle’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Joseph Stalin and Vincent van Gogh.

Not quite contemporaries: Ronald Reagan was born about a year after Johann Gottfried Galle died, Nelson Mandela was born about 8 years after Johann Gottfried Galle died, George Washington died about 13 years before Johann Gottfried Galle was born and Immanuel Kant died about 8 years before Johann Gottfried Galle was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,725 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Johann Gottfried Galle. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1861.

  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 Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  19. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  20. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  21. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  22. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  23. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  24. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  25. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  26. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  27. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  28. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  29. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  30. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  31. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  32. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  33. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  34. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  35. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  36. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  37. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  38. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  39. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  40. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  41. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  42. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  43. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  44. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  45. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  46. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  47. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  48. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  49. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  50. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  51. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  52. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  53. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  54. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  55. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  56. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  57. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  58. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  59. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  60. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  61. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  62. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  63. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  64. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  65. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  66. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  67. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  68. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  69. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  70. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  71. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  72. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  73. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  74. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  75. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  76. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  77. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  78. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  79. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  80. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  81. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  82. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  83. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  84. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  85. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  86. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  87. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  88. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  89. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  90. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  91. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  92. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  93. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  94. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  95. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  96. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  97. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  98. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  99. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  100. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  101. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  102. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  103. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  104. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  105. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  106. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  107. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  108. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  109. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  110. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  111. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  112. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  113. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  114. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  115. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  116. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  117. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  118. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  119. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  120. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  121. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  122. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  123. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  124. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  125. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  126. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  127. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  128. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  129. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  130. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  131. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  132. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  133. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  134. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  135. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  136. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  137. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  138. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  139. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  140. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  141. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  142. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  143. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  144. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  145. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  146. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  147. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  148. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  149. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  150. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939