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Oliver Heaviside
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Oliver Heaviside

British engineer and mathematician

Born 18 May 1850 · died 3 February 1925, aged 74

Who was alive at the same time as Oliver Heaviside?

  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. Oliver Heaviside, 1850 – 1925
  12. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  13. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  14. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  15. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  16. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  17. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  18. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  19. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  20. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  21. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  22. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  23. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  24. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013

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When Oliver Heaviside was born, Karl Marx was 32, Abraham Lincoln was 41, Leo Tolstoy was 21, Charles Darwin was 41 and Victor Hugo was 48.

When Oliver Heaviside died, Adolf Hitler was 35, Albert Einstein was 45, Ronald Reagan was 13, Nelson Mandela was 6 and Mahatma Gandhi was 55.

Born during Oliver Heaviside’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Lenin, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin and Vincent van Gogh.

Not quite contemporaries: Elizabeth II was born about a year after Oliver Heaviside died, Martin Luther King Jr. was born about 4 years after Oliver Heaviside died, Alexander Pushkin died about 13 years before Oliver Heaviside was born and Marilyn Monroe was born about a year after Oliver Heaviside died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,953 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Oliver Heaviside. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1888.

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  5. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  6. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  7. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  8. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  9. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  10. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  11. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  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. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  18. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  19. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  21. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  22. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  23. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  24. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  25. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  26. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  27. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  28. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  29. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  30. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  31. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  32. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  33. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  34. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  35. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  36. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  37. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  38. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  39. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  40. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  41. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  42. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  43. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  44. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  45. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  46. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  47. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  48. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  49. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  50. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  51. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  52. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  53. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  54. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  55. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  56. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  57. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  58. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  59. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  60. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  61. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  62. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  63. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  64. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  65. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  66. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  67. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  68. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  69. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  70. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  71. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  72. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  73. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  74. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  75. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  76. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  77. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  78. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  79. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  80. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  81. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  82. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  83. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  84. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  85. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  86. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  87. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  88. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  89. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  90. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  91. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  92. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  93. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  94. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  95. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  96. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  97. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  98. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  99. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  100. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  101. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  102. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  103. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  104. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  105. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  106. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  107. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  108. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  109. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  110. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  111. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  112. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  113. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  114. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  115. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  116. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  117. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  118. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  119. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  120. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  121. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  122. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  123. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  124. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  125. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  126. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  127. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  128. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  129. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  130. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  131. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  132. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  133. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  134. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  135. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  136. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  137. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  138. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  139. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  140. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  141. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  142. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  143. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  144. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  145. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  146. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  147. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  148. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  149. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  150. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883