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Selman Waksman
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Selman Waksman

American chemist and biochemist

Born 22 July 1888 · died 16 August 1973, aged 85
Also known as Selman Abraham Waksman, Waksman, Selman A. Waksman

Who was alive at the same time as Selman Waksman?

  1. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  2. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  3. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  4. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  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. Selman Waksman, 1888 – 1973
  14. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  15. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  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 Selman Waksman was born, Albert Einstein was 9, Vladimir Lenin was 18, Mahatma Gandhi was 18, Leo Tolstoy was 59 and Joseph Stalin was 9.

When Selman Waksman died, Barack Obama was 12, Donald Trump was 27, Michael Jackson was 14, Vladimir Putin was 20 and Ronald Reagan was 62.

Born during Selman Waksman’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela and George W. Bush.

Not quite contemporaries: Karl Marx died about 5 years before Selman Waksman was born, Charles Darwin died about 6 years before Selman Waksman was born, Victor Hugo died about 3 years before Selman Waksman was born and Fyodor Dostoevsky died about 7 years before Selman Waksman was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

3,895 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Selman Waksman. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1931.

  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. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  16. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  17. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  18. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  19. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  20. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  21. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  22. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  23. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  24. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  25. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  26. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  27. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  28. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  29. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  30. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  31. Bill Gates born 1955
  32. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  33. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  34. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  35. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  36. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  37. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  38. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  39. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  40. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  41. Bill Clinton born 1946
  42. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  43. Angela Merkel born 1954
  44. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  45. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  46. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  47. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  48. François Hollande born 1954
  49. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  50. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  51. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  52. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  53. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  54. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  55. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  56. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  57. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  58. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  59. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  60. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  61. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  62. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  63. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  64. Elon Musk born 1971
  65. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  66. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  67. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  68. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  69. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  70. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  71. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  72. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  73. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  74. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  75. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  76. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  77. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  78. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  79. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  80. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  81. Madonna born 1958
  82. Kamala Harris born 1964
  83. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  84. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  85. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  86. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  87. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  88. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  89. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  90. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  91. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  92. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  93. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  94. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  95. Xi Jinping born 1953
  96. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  97. Naruhito born 1960
  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. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  111. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  112. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  113. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  114. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  115. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  116. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  117. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  118. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  119. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  120. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  121. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  122. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  123. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  124. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  125. Charles III born 1948
  126. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  127. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  128. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  129. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  130. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  131. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  132. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  133. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  134. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  135. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  136. Eminem born 1972
  137. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  138. Narendra Modi born 1950
  139. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  140. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  141. Rafael Correa born 1963
  142. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  143. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  144. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  145. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  146. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  147. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  148. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  149. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  150. Steven Spielberg born 1946