Who Was Alive
Rudolf Virchow
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Rudolf Virchow

Prussian anthropologist and pathologist

Born 13 October 1821 · died 5 September 1902, aged 80
Also known as Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow, Rudolph Virchow, Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow

Who was alive at the same time as Rudolf Virchow?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  2. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  3. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  4. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  5. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  6. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  7. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  8. Rudolf Virchow, 1821 – 1902
  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 Rudolf Virchow was born, Karl Marx was 3, Abraham Lincoln was 12, Charles Darwin was 12, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 72 and Victor Hugo was 19.

When Rudolf Virchow died, Adolf Hitler was 13, Albert Einstein was 23, Vladimir Lenin was 32, Mahatma Gandhi was 32 and Leo Tolstoy was 73.

Born during Rudolf Virchow’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso.

Not quite contemporaries: Ronald Reagan was born about 9 years after Rudolf Virchow died, Napoleon died months before Rudolf Virchow was born, John F. Kennedy was born about 15 years after Rudolf Virchow died and Salvador Dalí was born about 2 years after Rudolf Virchow died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,493 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Rudolf Virchow. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1862.

  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. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  11. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  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. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  21. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  22. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  23. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  24. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  25. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  26. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  27. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  28. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  29. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  30. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  31. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  32. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  33. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  34. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  35. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  36. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  37. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  38. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  39. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  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. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  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. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  57. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  58. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  59. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  60. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  61. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  62. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  63. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  64. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  65. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  66. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  67. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  68. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  69. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  70. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  71. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  72. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  73. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  74. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  75. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  76. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  77. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  78. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  79. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  80. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  81. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  82. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  83. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  84. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  85. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  86. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  87. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  88. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  89. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  90. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  91. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  92. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  93. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  94. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  95. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  96. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  97. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  98. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  99. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  100. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  101. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  102. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  103. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  104. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  105. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  106. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  107. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  108. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  109. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  110. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  111. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  112. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  113. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  114. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  115. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  116. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  117. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  118. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  119. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  120. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  121. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  122. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  123. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  124. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  125. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  126. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  127. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  128. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  129. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  130. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  131. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  132. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  133. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  134. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  135. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  136. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  137. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  138. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  139. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  140. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  141. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  142. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  143. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  144. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  145. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  146. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  147. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  148. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  149. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  150. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956