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Owen Richardson
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Owen Richardson

British physicist

Born 26 April 1879 · died 15 February 1959, aged 79
Also known as Owen Willans Richardson, Sir Owen Richardson, Sir Owen Willans Richardson

Who was alive at the same time as Owen Richardson?

  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. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  8. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  9. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  10. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  11. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  12. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  13. Owen Richardson, 1879 – 1959
  14. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  15. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  16. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  17. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  18. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  19. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  20. Joe Biden, born 1942
  21. Donald Trump, born 1946
  22. George W. Bush, born 1946
  23. Vladimir Putin, born 1952
  24. Michael Jackson, 1958 – 2009

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When Owen Richardson was born, Albert Einstein was under a year old, Karl Marx was 60, Vladimir Lenin was 9, Mahatma Gandhi was 9 and Leo Tolstoy was 50.

When Owen Richardson died, Donald Trump was 12, Michael Jackson was under a year old, Vladimir Putin was 6, Ronald Reagan was 48 and Nelson Mandela was 40.

Born during Owen Richardson’s lifetime: Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush and Joe Biden.

Not quite contemporaries: Barack Obama was born about 2 years after Owen Richardson died, Abraham Lincoln died about 14 years before Owen Richardson was born, Charles Dickens died about 9 years before Owen Richardson was born and Hans Christian Andersen died about 4 years before Owen Richardson was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

3,272 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Owen Richardson. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1919.

  1. Donald Trump born 1946
  2. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  3. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  4. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  5. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  6. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  7. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  8. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  9. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  10. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  11. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  12. George W. Bush born 1946
  13. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  14. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  15. Joe Biden born 1942
  16. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  17. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  18. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  19. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  20. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  21. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  22. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  23. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  24. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  25. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  26. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  27. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  28. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  29. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  30. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  31. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  32. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  33. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  34. Bill Gates born 1955
  35. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  36. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  37. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  38. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  39. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  40. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  41. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  42. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  43. Bill Clinton born 1946
  44. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  45. Angela Merkel born 1954
  46. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  47. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  48. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  49. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  50. François Hollande born 1954
  51. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  52. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  53. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  54. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  55. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  56. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  57. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  58. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  59. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  60. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  61. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  62. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  63. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  64. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  65. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  66. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  67. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  68. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  69. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  70. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  71. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  72. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  73. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  74. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  75. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  76. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  77. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  78. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  79. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  80. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  81. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  82. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  83. Madonna born 1958
  84. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  85. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  86. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  87. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  88. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  89. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  90. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  91. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  92. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  93. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  94. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  95. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  96. Xi Jinping born 1953
  97. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  98. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  99. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  100. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  101. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  102. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  103. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  104. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  105. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  106. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  107. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  108. Bob Dylan born 1941
  109. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  110. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  111. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  112. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  113. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  114. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  115. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  116. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  117. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  118. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  119. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  120. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  121. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  122. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  123. Charles III born 1948
  124. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  125. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  126. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  127. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  128. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  129. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  130. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  131. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  132. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  133. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  134. Narendra Modi born 1950
  135. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  136. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  137. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  138. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  139. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  140. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  141. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  142. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  143. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  144. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  145. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  146. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  147. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  148. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  149. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  150. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968