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Josiah Willard Gibbs

American physicist and chemist

Born 11 February 1839 · died 28 April 1903, aged 64
Also known as J. Willard Gibbs, Gibbs, Josiah W. Gibbs

Who was alive at the same time as Josiah Willard Gibbs?

  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. Josiah Willard Gibbs, 1839 – 1903
  10. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  11. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  12. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  13. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  14. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  15. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  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 Josiah Willard Gibbs was born, Karl Marx was 20, Abraham Lincoln was 29, Leo Tolstoy was 10, Charles Darwin was 29 and Victor Hugo was 36.

When Josiah Willard Gibbs died, Adolf Hitler was 14, Albert Einstein was 24, Vladimir Lenin was 33, Mahatma Gandhi was 33 and Leo Tolstoy was 74.

Born during Josiah Willard Gibbs’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 8 years after Josiah Willard Gibbs died, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died about 7 years before Josiah Willard Gibbs was born, Ludwig van Beethoven died about 12 years before Josiah Willard Gibbs was born and John F. Kennedy was born about 14 years after Josiah Willard Gibbs died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,417 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Josiah Willard Gibbs. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1871.

  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. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  24. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  25. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  26. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  27. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  28. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  29. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  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. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  37. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  38. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  39. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  40. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  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. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  49. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  50. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  51. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  52. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  53. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  54. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  55. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  56. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  57. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  58. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  59. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  60. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  61. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  62. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  63. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  64. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  65. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  66. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  67. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  68. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  69. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  70. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  71. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  72. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  73. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  74. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  75. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  76. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  77. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  78. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  79. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  80. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  81. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  82. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  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. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  91. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  92. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  93. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  94. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  95. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  96. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  97. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  98. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  99. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  100. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  101. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  102. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  103. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  104. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  105. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  106. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  107. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  108. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  109. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  110. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  111. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  112. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  113. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  114. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  115. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  116. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  117. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  118. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  119. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  120. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  121. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  122. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  123. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  124. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  125. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  126. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  127. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  128. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  129. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  130. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  131. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  132. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  133. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  134. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  135. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  136. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  137. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  138. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  139. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  140. John Steinbeck 1902 – 1968
  141. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  142. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  143. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  144. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  145. William Faulkner 1897 – 1962
  146. Sergei Eisenstein 1898 – 1948
  147. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  148. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  149. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  150. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875