Who Was Alive
Niels Ryberg Finsen
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Niels Ryberg Finsen

Danish physician and scientist

Born 15 December 1860 · died 24 September 1904, aged 43
Also known as Niels Finsen

Who was alive at the same time as Niels Ryberg Finsen?

  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. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  10. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  11. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  12. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  13. Niels Ryberg Finsen, 1860 – 1904
  14. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  15. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  16. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  17. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  18. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  20. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  21. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  22. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  23. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  24. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989

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When Niels Ryberg Finsen was born, Karl Marx was 42, Abraham Lincoln was 51, Leo Tolstoy was 32, Charles Darwin was 51 and Victor Hugo was 58.

When Niels Ryberg Finsen died, Adolf Hitler was 15, Albert Einstein was 25, Vladimir Lenin was 34, Mahatma Gandhi was 34 and Leo Tolstoy was 76.

Born during Niels Ryberg Finsen’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, Pablo Picasso, Winston Churchill and Charlie Chaplin.

Not quite contemporaries: Ronald Reagan was born about 7 years after Niels Ryberg Finsen died, Nelson Mandela was born about 14 years after Niels Ryberg Finsen died, John F. Kennedy was born about 13 years after Niels Ryberg Finsen died and Edgar Allan Poe died about 11 years before Niels Ryberg Finsen was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,354 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Niels Ryberg Finsen. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1882.

  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. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  24. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  25. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  26. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  27. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  28. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  29. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  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. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  37. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  38. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  39. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  40. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  41. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  42. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  43. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  44. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  45. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  46. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  47. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  48. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  49. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  50. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  51. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  52. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  53. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  54. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  55. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  56. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  57. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  58. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  59. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  60. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  61. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  62. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  63. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  64. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  65. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  66. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  67. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  68. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  69. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  70. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  71. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  72. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  73. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  74. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  75. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  76. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  77. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  78. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  79. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  80. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  81. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  82. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  83. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  84. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  85. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  86. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  87. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  88. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  89. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  90. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  91. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  92. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  93. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  94. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  95. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  96. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  97. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  98. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  99. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  100. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  101. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  102. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  103. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  104. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  105. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  106. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  107. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  108. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  109. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  110. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  111. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  112. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  113. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  114. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  115. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  116. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  117. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  118. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  119. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  120. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  121. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  122. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  123. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  124. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  125. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  126. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  127. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  128. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  129. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  130. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  131. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  132. John Steinbeck 1902 – 1968
  133. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  134. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  135. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  136. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  137. William Faulkner 1897 – 1962
  138. Sergei Eisenstein 1898 – 1948
  139. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  140. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  141. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  142. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  143. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  144. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  145. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  146. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  147. Aldous Huxley 1894 – 1963
  148. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  149. Pearl S. Buck 1892 – 1973
  150. Federico García Lorca 1898 – 1936