Who Was Alive

Karl Ferdinand Braun

German physicist

Born 6 June 1850 · died 20 April 1918, aged 67

Who was alive at the same time as Karl Ferdinand Braun?

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Abraham Lincoln
  3. Charles Darwin
  4. Charles Dickens
  5. Karl Marx
  6. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  7. Leo Tolstoy
  8. Mark Twain
  9. Friedrich Nietzsche
  10. Thomas Edison
  11. Karl Ferdinand Braun
  12. Vincent van Gogh
  13. Sigmund Freud
  14. Mahatma Gandhi
  15. Vladimir Lenin
  16. Winston Churchill
  17. Joseph Stalin
  18. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  19. Albert Einstein
  20. Pablo Picasso
  21. Charlie Chaplin
  22. Adolf Hitler
  23. Ronald Reagan
  24. John F. Kennedy
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When Karl Ferdinand Braun was born, Karl Marx was 32, Abraham Lincoln was 41, Leo Tolstoy was 21, Charles Darwin was 41 and Victor Hugo was 48.

When Karl Ferdinand Braun died, Adolf Hitler was 29, Albert Einstein was 39, Ronald Reagan was 7, Vladimir Lenin was 47 and Mahatma Gandhi was 48.

Born during Karl Ferdinand Braun’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso.

Not quite contemporaries: Nelson Mandela was born months after Karl Ferdinand Braun died, Elizabeth II was born 8 years after Karl Ferdinand Braun died, Martin Luther King Jr. was born 11 years after Karl Ferdinand Braun died and Alexander Pushkin died 13 years before Karl Ferdinand Braun was born.

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  7. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  8. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  9. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  10. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  11. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  12. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  13. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  14. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  15. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
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