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Kurt Alder
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Kurt Alder

German chemist

Born 10 July 1902 · died 20 June 1958, aged 55

Who was alive at the same time as Kurt Alder?

  1. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  2. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  3. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  4. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  5. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  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. Kurt Alder, 1902 – 1958
  16. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  17. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  18. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  19. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  20. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929 – 1968
  21. Joe Biden, born 1942
  22. Donald Trump, born 1946
  23. George W. Bush, born 1946
  24. Vladimir Putin, born 1952

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When Kurt Alder was born, Adolf Hitler was 13, Albert Einstein was 23, Vladimir Lenin was 32, Mahatma Gandhi was 32 and Leo Tolstoy was 73.

When Kurt Alder died, Donald Trump was 12, Vladimir Putin was 5, Ronald Reagan was 47, Nelson Mandela was 39 and George W. Bush was 11.

Born during Kurt Alder’s lifetime: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Elizabeth II and John F. Kennedy.

Not quite contemporaries: Barack Obama was born about 3 years after Kurt Alder died, Michael Jackson was born months after Kurt Alder died, Vincent van Gogh died about 12 years before Kurt Alder was born and Friedrich Nietzsche died about 2 years before Kurt Alder was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

3,093 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Kurt Alder. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1930.

  1. Donald Trump born 1946
  2. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  3. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  4. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  5. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  6. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  7. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  8. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  9. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  10. George W. Bush born 1946
  11. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  12. Joe Biden born 1942
  13. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  14. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  15. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  16. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  17. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  18. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  20. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  21. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  22. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  23. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  24. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  25. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  26. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  27. Bill Gates born 1955
  28. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  29. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  30. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  31. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  32. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  33. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  34. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  35. Bill Clinton born 1946
  36. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  37. Angela Merkel born 1954
  38. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  39. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  40. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  41. François Hollande born 1954
  42. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  43. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  44. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  45. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  46. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  47. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  48. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  49. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  50. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  51. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  52. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  53. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  54. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  55. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  56. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  57. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  58. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  59. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  60. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  61. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  62. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  63. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  64. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  65. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  66. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  67. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  68. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  69. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  70. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  71. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  72. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  73. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  74. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  75. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  76. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  77. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  78. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  79. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  80. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  81. Xi Jinping born 1953
  82. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  83. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  84. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  85. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  86. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  87. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  88. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  89. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  90. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  91. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  92. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  93. Bob Dylan born 1941
  94. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  95. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  96. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  97. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  98. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  99. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  100. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  101. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  102. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  103. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  104. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  105. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  106. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  107. Charles III born 1948
  108. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  109. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  110. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  111. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  112. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  113. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  114. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  115. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  116. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  117. Narendra Modi born 1950
  118. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  119. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  120. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  121. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  122. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  123. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  124. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  125. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  126. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  127. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  128. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  129. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  130. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  131. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  132. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  133. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  134. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  135. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  136. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  137. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  138. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  139. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  140. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  141. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  142. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  143. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  144. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  145. Shinzo Abe 1954 – 2022
  146. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  147. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  148. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  149. Tim Berners-Lee born 1955
  150. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007