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Robert Bunsen
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Robert Bunsen

Prussian chemist

Born 30 March 1811 · died 16 August 1899, aged 88
Also known as Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen, Robert William Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm Bunsen

Who was alive at the same time as Robert Bunsen?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  2. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  3. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  4. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  5. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  6. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  7. Robert Bunsen, 1811 – 1899
  8. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  9. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  10. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  11. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  12. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  13. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  14. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  15. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  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 Robert Bunsen was born, Abraham Lincoln was 2, Napoleon was 41, Charles Darwin was 2, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 61 and Victor Hugo was 9.

When Robert Bunsen died, Adolf Hitler was 10, Albert Einstein was 20, Vladimir Lenin was 29, Mahatma Gandhi was 29 and Leo Tolstoy was 70.

Born during Robert Bunsen’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Joseph Stalin and Vincent van Gogh.

Not quite contemporaries: Ronald Reagan was born about 12 years after Robert Bunsen died, George Washington died about 12 years before Robert Bunsen was born, Immanuel Kant died about 7 years before Robert Bunsen was born and Salvador Dalí was born about 5 years after Robert Bunsen died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,429 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Robert Bunsen. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1855.

  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. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  7. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  8. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  9. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  10. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  11. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  12. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  13. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  14. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  15. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  16. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  17. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  18. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  19. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  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. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  26. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  27. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  28. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  29. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  30. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  31. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  32. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  33. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  34. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  35. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  36. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  37. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  38. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  39. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  40. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  41. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  42. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  43. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  44. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  45. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  46. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  47. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  48. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  49. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  50. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  51. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  52. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  53. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  54. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  55. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  56. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  57. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  58. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  59. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  60. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  61. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  62. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  63. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  64. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  65. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  66. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  67. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  68. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  69. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  70. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  71. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  72. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  73. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  74. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  75. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  76. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  77. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  78. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  79. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  80. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  81. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  82. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  83. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  84. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  85. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  86. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  87. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  88. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  89. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  90. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  91. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  92. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  93. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  94. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  95. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  96. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  97. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  98. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  99. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  100. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  101. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  102. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  103. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  104. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  105. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  106. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  107. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  108. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  109. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  110. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  111. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  112. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  113. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  114. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  115. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  116. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  117. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  118. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  119. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  120. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  121. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  122. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  123. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  124. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  125. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  126. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  127. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  128. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  129. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  130. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  131. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  132. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  133. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  134. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  135. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  136. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  137. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  138. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  139. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  140. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  141. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  142. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  143. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  144. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  145. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  146. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  147. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  148. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  149. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  150. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924