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Otto Lilienthal
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Otto Lilienthal

Prussian military flight engineer

Born 23 May 1848 · died 10 August 1896, aged 48
Also known as Karl Wilhelm Otto Lilienthal

Who was alive at the same time as Otto Lilienthal?

  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. Otto Lilienthal, 1848 – 1896
  12. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  13. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  14. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  15. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  16. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  17. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  18. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  19. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  21. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  22. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  23. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  24. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945

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When Otto Lilienthal was born, Karl Marx was 30, Abraham Lincoln was 39, Leo Tolstoy was 19, Charles Darwin was 39 and Victor Hugo was 46.

When Otto Lilienthal died, Adolf Hitler was 7, Albert Einstein was 17, Vladimir Lenin was 26, Mahatma Gandhi was 26 and Leo Tolstoy was 67.

Born during Otto Lilienthal’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and Winston Churchill.

Not quite contemporaries: Ronald Reagan was born about 15 years after Otto Lilienthal died, Salvador Dalí was born about 8 years after Otto Lilienthal died, Alexander Pushkin died about 11 years before Otto Lilienthal was born and Walt Disney was born about 5 years after Otto Lilienthal died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,203 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Otto Lilienthal. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1872.

  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. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  24. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  25. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  26. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  27. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  28. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  29. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  30. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  31. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  32. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  33. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  34. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  35. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  36. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  37. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  38. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  39. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  40. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  41. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  42. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  43. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  44. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  45. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  46. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  47. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  48. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  49. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  50. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  51. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  52. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  53. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  54. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  55. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  56. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  57. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  58. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  59. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  60. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  61. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  62. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  63. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  64. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  65. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  66. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  67. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  68. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  69. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  70. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  71. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  72. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  73. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  74. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  75. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  76. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  77. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  78. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  79. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  80. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  81. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  82. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  83. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  84. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  85. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  86. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  87. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  88. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  89. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  90. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  91. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  92. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  93. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  94. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  95. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  96. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  97. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  98. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  99. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  100. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  101. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  102. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  103. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  104. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  105. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  106. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  107. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  108. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  109. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  110. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  111. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  112. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  113. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  114. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  115. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  116. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  117. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  118. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  119. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  120. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  121. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  122. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  123. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  124. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  125. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  126. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  127. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  128. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  129. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  130. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  131. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  132. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  133. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  134. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  135. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  136. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  137. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  138. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  139. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  140. Aldous Huxley 1894 – 1963
  141. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  142. Pearl S. Buck 1892 – 1973
  143. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  144. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  145. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  146. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  147. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  148. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  149. Warren G. Harding 1865 – 1923
  150. Boris Pasternak 1890 – 1960