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Sadi Carnot
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Sadi Carnot

French politician who served as President of the French Republic

Born 11 August 1837 · died 25 June 1894, aged 56
Also known as Marie François Carnot, Marie François Sadi Carnot

Who was alive at the same time as Sadi Carnot?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  3. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  4. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  5. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  6. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  7. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  8. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  9. Sadi Carnot, 1837 – 1894
  10. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  11. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  12. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  13. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  14. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  15. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  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 Sadi Carnot was born, Karl Marx was 19, Abraham Lincoln was 28, Leo Tolstoy was 8, Charles Darwin was 28 and Victor Hugo was 35.

When Sadi Carnot died, Adolf Hitler was 5, Albert Einstein was 15, Vladimir Lenin was 24, Mahatma Gandhi was 24 and Leo Tolstoy was 65.

Born during Sadi Carnot’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and Winston Churchill.

Not quite contemporaries: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died about 5 years before Sadi Carnot was born, Ludwig van Beethoven died about 10 years before Sadi Carnot was born, Salvador Dalí was born about 10 years after Sadi Carnot died and Alexander Pushkin died months before Sadi Carnot was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,206 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Sadi Carnot. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1866.

  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. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  11. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  12. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  13. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  14. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  15. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  16. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  17. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  18. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  20. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  21. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  22. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  23. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  24. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  25. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  26. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  27. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  28. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  29. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  30. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  31. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  32. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  33. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  34. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  35. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  36. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  37. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  38. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  39. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  40. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  41. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  42. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  43. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  44. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  45. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  46. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  47. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  48. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  49. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  50. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  51. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  52. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  53. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  54. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  55. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  56. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  57. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  58. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  59. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  60. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  61. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  62. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  63. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  64. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  65. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  66. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  67. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  68. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  69. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  70. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  71. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  72. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  73. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  74. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  75. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  76. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  77. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  78. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  79. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  80. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  81. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  82. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  83. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  84. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  85. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  86. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  87. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  88. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  89. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  90. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  91. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  92. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  93. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  94. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  95. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  96. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  97. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  98. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  99. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  100. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  101. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  102. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  103. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  104. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  105. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  106. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  107. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  108. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  109. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  110. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  111. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  112. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  113. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  114. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  115. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  116. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  117. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  118. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  119. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  120. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  121. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  122. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  123. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  124. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  125. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  126. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  127. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  128. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  129. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  130. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  131. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  132. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  133. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  134. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  135. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  136. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  137. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  138. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  139. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  140. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  141. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  142. Pearl S. Buck 1892 – 1973
  143. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  144. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  145. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  146. Boris Pasternak 1890 – 1960
  147. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  148. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  149. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  150. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917