Who Was Alive
John Howard Northrop
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John Howard Northrop

American biochemist

Born 5 July 1891 · died 27 May 1987, aged 95
Also known as John Northrop, John H. Northrop

Who was alive at the same time as John Howard Northrop?

  1. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  2. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  3. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  4. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  5. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  6. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  7. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  8. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  9. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  10. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  11. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  12. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  13. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  14. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  15. John Howard Northrop, 1891 – 1987
  16. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  17. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  18. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  19. Joe Biden, born 1942
  20. Donald Trump, born 1946
  21. George W. Bush, born 1946
  22. Vladimir Putin, born 1952
  23. Michael Jackson, 1958 – 2009
  24. Barack Obama, born 1961

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When John Howard Northrop was born, Adolf Hitler was 2, Albert Einstein was 12, Vladimir Lenin was 21, Mahatma Gandhi was 21 and Leo Tolstoy was 62.

When John Howard Northrop died, Barack Obama was 25, Donald Trump was 40, Michael Jackson was 28, Vladimir Putin was 34 and Ronald Reagan was 76.

Born during John Howard Northrop’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush and Joe Biden.

Not quite contemporaries: Karl Marx died about 8 years before John Howard Northrop was born, Charles Darwin died about 9 years before John Howard Northrop was born, Victor Hugo died about 6 years before John Howard Northrop was born and Vincent van Gogh died about a year before John Howard Northrop was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

4,418 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as John Howard Northrop. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1939.

  1. Barack Obama born 1961
  2. Donald Trump born 1946
  3. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  4. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  5. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  6. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  7. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  8. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  9. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  10. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  11. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  12. George W. Bush born 1946
  13. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  14. Joe Biden born 1942
  15. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  16. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  17. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  18. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  19. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  20. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  21. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  22. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  23. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  24. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  25. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  26. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  27. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  28. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  29. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  30. Bill Gates born 1955
  31. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  32. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  33. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  34. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  35. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  36. Shakira born 1977
  37. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  38. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  39. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  40. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  41. Bill Clinton born 1946
  42. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  43. Basshunter born 1984
  44. Angela Merkel born 1954
  45. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  46. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  47. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  48. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  49. François Hollande born 1954
  50. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  51. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  52. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  53. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  54. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  55. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  56. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  57. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  58. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  59. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  60. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  61. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  62. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  63. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  64. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  65. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  66. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  67. Elon Musk born 1971
  68. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  69. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  70. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  71. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  72. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  73. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  74. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  75. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  76. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  77. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  78. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  79. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  80. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  81. Lady Gaga born 1986
  82. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  83. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  84. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  85. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  86. Madonna born 1958
  87. Kamala Harris born 1964
  88. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  89. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  90. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  91. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  92. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  93. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  94. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  95. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  96. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  97. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  98. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  99. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  100. Xi Jinping born 1953
  101. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  102. Naruhito born 1960
  103. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  104. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  105. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  106. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  107. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  108. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  109. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  110. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  111. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  112. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  113. Bob Dylan born 1941
  114. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  115. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  116. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  117. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  118. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  119. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  120. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  121. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  122. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  123. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  124. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  125. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  126. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  127. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  128. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  129. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  130. Charles III born 1948
  131. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  132. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  133. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  134. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  135. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  136. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  137. Kim Jong Un born 1984
  138. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  139. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  140. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  141. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  142. Eminem born 1972
  143. Beyoncé born 1981
  144. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  145. Narendra Modi born 1950
  146. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  147. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  148. Rafael Correa born 1963
  149. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  150. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982