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Otto Wallach
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Otto Wallach

German chemist

Born 27 March 1847 · died 26 February 1931, aged 83

Who was alive at the same time as Otto Wallach?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  3. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  4. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  5. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  6. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  7. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  8. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  9. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  10. Otto Wallach, 1847 – 1931
  11. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  12. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  13. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  14. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  15. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  16. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  17. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  18. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  19. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  20. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  21. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  22. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  23. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  24. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022

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When Otto Wallach was born, Karl Marx was 28, Abraham Lincoln was 38, Leo Tolstoy was 18, Charles Darwin was 38 and Victor Hugo was 45.

When Otto Wallach died, Adolf Hitler was 41, Albert Einstein was 51, Ronald Reagan was 20, Nelson Mandela was 12 and Mahatma Gandhi was 61.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Joe Biden was born about 11 years after Otto Wallach died, Alexander Pushkin died about 10 years before Otto Wallach was born, Pope Francis was born about 5 years after Otto Wallach died and Elvis Presley was born about 4 years after Otto Wallach died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,233 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Otto Wallach. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1889.

  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. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  20. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  21. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  22. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  23. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  24. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  25. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  26. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  27. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  28. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  29. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  30. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  31. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  32. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  33. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  34. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  35. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  36. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  37. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  38. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  39. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  40. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  41. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  42. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  43. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  44. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  45. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  46. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  47. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  48. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  49. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  50. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  51. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  52. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  53. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  54. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  55. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  56. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  57. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  58. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  59. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  60. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  61. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  62. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  63. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  64. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  65. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  66. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  67. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  68. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  69. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  70. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  71. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  72. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  73. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  74. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  75. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  76. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  77. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  78. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  79. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  80. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  81. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  82. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  83. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  84. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  85. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  86. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  87. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  88. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  89. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  90. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  91. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  92. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  93. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  94. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  95. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  96. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  97. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  98. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  99. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  100. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  101. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  102. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  103. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  104. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  105. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  106. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  107. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  108. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  109. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  110. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  111. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  112. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  113. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  114. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  115. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  116. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  117. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  118. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  119. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  120. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  121. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  122. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  123. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  124. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  125. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  126. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  127. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  128. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  129. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  130. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  131. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  132. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  133. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  134. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  135. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  136. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  137. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  138. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  139. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  140. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  141. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  142. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  143. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  144. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  145. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  146. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  147. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  148. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  149. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  150. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994