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Patrick Blackett
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Patrick Blackett

British physicist

Born 18 November 1897 · died 13 July 1974, aged 76
Also known as Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett

Who was alive at the same time as Patrick Blackett?

  1. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  2. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  3. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  4. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  5. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  6. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  7. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  8. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  9. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  10. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  11. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  12. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  13. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  14. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  15. Patrick Blackett, 1897 – 1974
  16. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  17. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  18. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  19. Joe Biden, born 1942
  20. Donald Trump, born 1946
  21. George W. Bush, born 1946
  22. Vladimir Putin, born 1952
  23. Michael Jackson, 1958 – 2009
  24. Barack Obama, born 1961

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When Patrick Blackett was born, Adolf Hitler was 8, Albert Einstein was 18, Vladimir Lenin was 27, Mahatma Gandhi was 28 and Leo Tolstoy was 69.

When Patrick Blackett died, Barack Obama was 12, Donald Trump was 28, Michael Jackson was 15, Vladimir Putin was 21 and Ronald Reagan was 63.

Born during Patrick Blackett’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush and Joe Biden.

Not quite contemporaries: Karl Marx died about 14 years before Patrick Blackett was born, Victor Hugo died about 12 years before Patrick Blackett was born, Vincent van Gogh died about 7 years before Patrick Blackett was born and Shakira was born about 3 years after Patrick Blackett died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

3,854 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Patrick Blackett. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1936.

  1. Barack Obama born 1961
  2. Donald Trump born 1946
  3. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  4. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  5. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  6. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  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. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  14. Joe Biden born 1942
  15. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  16. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  17. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  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. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  25. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  26. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  27. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  28. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  29. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  30. Bill Gates born 1955
  31. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  32. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  33. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  34. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  35. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  36. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  37. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  38. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  39. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  40. Bill Clinton born 1946
  41. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  42. Angela Merkel born 1954
  43. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  44. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  45. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  46. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  47. François Hollande born 1954
  48. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  49. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  50. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  51. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  52. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  53. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  54. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  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. Elon Musk born 1971
  63. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  64. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  65. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  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. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  78. Madonna born 1958
  79. Kamala Harris born 1964
  80. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  81. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  82. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  83. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  84. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  85. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  86. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  87. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  88. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  89. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  90. Xi Jinping born 1953
  91. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  92. Naruhito born 1960
  93. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  94. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  95. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  96. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  97. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  98. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  99. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  100. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  101. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  102. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  103. Bob Dylan born 1941
  104. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  105. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  106. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  107. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  108. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  109. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  110. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  111. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  112. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  113. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  114. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  115. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  116. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  117. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  118. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  119. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  120. Charles III born 1948
  121. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  122. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  123. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  124. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  125. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  126. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  127. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  128. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  129. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  130. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  131. Eminem born 1972
  132. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  133. Narendra Modi born 1950
  134. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  135. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  136. Rafael Correa born 1963
  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. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  147. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  148. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  149. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  150. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946