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Norman Haworth
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Norman Haworth

British chemist

Born 19 March 1883 · died 19 March 1950, aged 67
Also known as Walter N. Haworth, Walter Haworth, Sir Walter Norman Haworth

Who was alive at the same time as Norman Haworth?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  3. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  4. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  5. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  6. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  7. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  8. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  9. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  10. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  11. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  12. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  13. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  14. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  15. Norman Haworth, 1883 – 1950
  16. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  17. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  18. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  19. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  20. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  21. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  22. Joe Biden, born 1942
  23. Donald Trump, born 1946
  24. George W. Bush, born 1946

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When Norman Haworth was born, Albert Einstein was 4, Vladimir Lenin was 12, Mahatma Gandhi was 13, Leo Tolstoy was 54 and Joseph Stalin was 4.

When Norman Haworth died, Donald Trump was 3, Albert Einstein was 71, Ronald Reagan was 39, Nelson Mandela was 31 and George W. Bush was 3.

Born during Norman Haworth’s lifetime: Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Charlie Chaplin and Elizabeth II.

Not quite contemporaries: Barack Obama was born about 11 years after Norman Haworth died, Michael Jackson was born about 8 years after Norman Haworth died, Vladimir Putin was born about 2 years after Norman Haworth died and Karl Marx died months before Norman Haworth was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,897 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Norman Haworth. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1917.

  1. Donald Trump born 1946
  2. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  3. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  4. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  5. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  6. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  7. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  8. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  9. George W. Bush born 1946
  10. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  11. Joe Biden born 1942
  12. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  13. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  14. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  15. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  16. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  17. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  18. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  19. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  21. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  22. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  23. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  24. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  25. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  26. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  27. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  28. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  29. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  30. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  31. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  32. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  33. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  34. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  35. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  36. Bill Clinton born 1946
  37. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  38. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  39. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  40. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  41. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  42. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  43. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  44. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  45. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  46. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  47. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  48. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  49. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  50. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  51. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  52. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  53. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  54. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  55. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  56. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  57. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  58. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  59. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  60. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  61. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  62. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  63. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  64. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  65. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  66. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  67. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  68. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  69. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  70. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  71. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  72. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  73. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  74. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  75. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  76. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  77. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  78. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  79. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  80. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  81. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  82. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  83. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  84. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  85. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  86. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  87. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  88. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  89. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  90. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  91. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  92. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  93. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  94. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  95. Bob Dylan born 1941
  96. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  97. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  98. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  99. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  100. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  101. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  102. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  103. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  104. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  105. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  106. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  107. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  108. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  109. Charles III born 1948
  110. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  111. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  112. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  113. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  114. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  115. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  116. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  117. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  118. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  119. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  120. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  121. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  122. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  123. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  124. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  125. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  126. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  127. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  128. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  129. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  130. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  131. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  132. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  133. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  134. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  135. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  136. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  137. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  138. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  139. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  140. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  141. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  142. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  143. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  144. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  145. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  146. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  147. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  148. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  149. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  150. Anatole France 1844 – 1924