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Otto Diels
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Otto Diels

German chemist

Born 23 January 1876 · died 7 March 1954, aged 78
Also known as Otto Paul Hermann Diels

Who was alive at the same time as Otto Diels?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  3. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  4. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  5. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  6. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  7. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  8. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  9. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  10. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  11. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  12. Otto Diels, 1876 – 1954
  13. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  14. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  15. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  16. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  17. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  18. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  19. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  20. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  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 Otto Diels was born, Karl Marx was 57, Vladimir Lenin was 5, Mahatma Gandhi was 6, Leo Tolstoy was 47 and Charles Darwin was 66.

When Otto Diels died, Donald Trump was 7, Albert Einstein was 74, Vladimir Putin was 1, Ronald Reagan was 43 and Nelson Mandela was 35.

Born during Otto Diels’s lifetime: Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush and Joseph Stalin.

Not quite contemporaries: Barack Obama was born about 7 years after Otto Diels died, Michael Jackson was born about 4 years after Otto Diels died, Abraham Lincoln died about 11 years before Otto Diels was born and Charles Dickens died about 6 years before Otto Diels was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

3,074 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Otto Diels. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1915.

  1. Donald Trump born 1946
  2. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  3. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  4. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  5. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  6. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  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 Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  21. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  22. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  23. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  24. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  25. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  26. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  27. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  28. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  29. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  30. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  31. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  32. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  33. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  34. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  35. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  36. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  37. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  38. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  39. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  40. Bill Clinton born 1946
  41. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  42. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  43. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  44. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  45. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  46. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  47. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  48. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  49. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  50. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  51. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  52. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  53. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  54. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  55. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  56. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  57. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  58. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  59. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  60. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  61. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  62. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  63. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  64. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  65. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  66. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  67. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  68. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  69. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  70. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  71. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  72. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  73. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  74. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  75. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  76. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  77. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  78. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  79. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  80. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  81. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  82. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  83. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  84. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  85. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  86. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  87. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  88. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  89. Xi Jinping born 1953
  90. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  91. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  92. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  93. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  94. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  95. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  96. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  97. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  98. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  99. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  100. Bob Dylan born 1941
  101. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  102. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  103. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  104. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  105. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  106. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  107. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  108. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  109. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  110. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  111. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  112. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  113. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  114. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  115. Charles III born 1948
  116. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  117. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  118. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  119. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  120. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  121. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  122. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  123. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  124. Narendra Modi born 1950
  125. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  126. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  127. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  128. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  129. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  130. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  131. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  132. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  133. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  134. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  135. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  136. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  137. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  138. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  139. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  140. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  141. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  142. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  143. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  144. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  145. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  146. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  147. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  148. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  149. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  150. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981