Who Was Alive

Max Planck

German theoretical physicist

Born 23 April 1858 · died 4 October 1947, aged 89

Who was alive at the same time as Max Planck?

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Abraham Lincoln
  3. Charles Darwin
  4. Karl Marx
  5. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  6. Leo Tolstoy
  7. Friedrich Nietzsche
  8. Thomas Edison
  9. Vincent van Gogh
  10. Max Planck
  11. Mahatma Gandhi
  12. Vladimir Lenin
  13. Winston Churchill
  14. Joseph Stalin
  15. Albert Einstein
  16. Pablo Picasso
  17. Charlie Chaplin
  18. Adolf Hitler
  19. Ronald Reagan
  20. Nelson Mandela
  21. Elizabeth II
  22. Joe Biden
  23. Donald Trump
  24. George W. Bush
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When Max Planck was born, Karl Marx was 39, Abraham Lincoln was 49, Leo Tolstoy was 29, Charles Darwin was 49 and Victor Hugo was 56.

When Max Planck died, Donald Trump was 1, Albert Einstein was 68, Ronald Reagan was 36, Nelson Mandela was 29 and Mahatma Gandhi was 78.

Born during Max Planck’s lifetime: Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Lenin, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi and George W. Bush.

Not quite contemporaries: Barack Obama was born 14 years after Max Planck died, Michael Jackson was born 11 years after Max Planck died, Vladimir Putin was born 5 years after Max Planck died and Bill Gates was born 8 years after Max Planck died.

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  1. Donald Trump born 1946
  2. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  3. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  4. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  5. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  6. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  7. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  8. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  9. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  10. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  11. George W. Bush born 1946
  12. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  13. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  14. Joe Biden born 1942
  15. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  16. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  17. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  18. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  19. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  20. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  21. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  22. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  23. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  24. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  25. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  26. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  27. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  28. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  29. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  30. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  31. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  32. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  33. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  34. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  35. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  36. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  37. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  38. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  39. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  40. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  41. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  42. Bill Clinton born 1946
  43. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  44. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  45. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  46. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  47. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  48. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  49. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  50. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  51. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  52. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  53. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  54. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  55. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  56. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  57. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  58. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  59. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  60. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  61. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  62. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  63. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  64. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  65. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  66. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  67. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  68. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  69. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  70. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  71. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  72. Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  73. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  74. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  75. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  76. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  77. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  78. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  79. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  80. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  81. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  82. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  83. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  84. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  85. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  86. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  87. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  88. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  89. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  90. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  91. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  92. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  93. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  94. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  95. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  96. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  97. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  98. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  99. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  100. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
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  102. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  103. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  104. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
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  106. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
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  111. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  112. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  113. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  114. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  115. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  116. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  117. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  118. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  119. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  120. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  121. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  122. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  123. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  124. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  125. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  126. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  127. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  128. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  129. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  130. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  131. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  132. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  133. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  134. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  135. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  136. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  137. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  138. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  139. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  140. Tenzin Gyatso born 1935
  141. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  142. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  143. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  144. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  145. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  146. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  147. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  148. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  149. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  150. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879

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