Who Was Alive

Theodor Mommsen

German classical scholar and historian

Born 30 November 1817 · died 1 November 1903, aged 85

Who was alive at the same time as Theodor Mommsen?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  2. Ludwig van Beethoven
  3. Napoleon
  4. Victor Hugo
  5. Abraham Lincoln
  6. Charles Darwin
  7. Theodor Mommsen
  8. Karl Marx
  9. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  10. Leo Tolstoy
  11. Mark Twain
  12. Friedrich Nietzsche
  13. Thomas Edison
  14. Vincent van Gogh
  15. Sigmund Freud
  16. Mahatma Gandhi
  17. Vladimir Lenin
  18. Winston Churchill
  19. Joseph Stalin
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  21. Albert Einstein
  22. Pablo Picasso
  23. Charlie Chaplin
  24. Adolf Hitler
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When Theodor Mommsen was born, Abraham Lincoln was 8, Napoleon was 48, Charles Darwin was 8, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 68 and Victor Hugo was 15.

When Theodor Mommsen died, Adolf Hitler was 14, Albert Einstein was 24, Vladimir Lenin was 33, Mahatma Gandhi was 34 and Leo Tolstoy was 75.

Born during Theodor Mommsen’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 8 years after Theodor Mommsen died, Nelson Mandela was born 15 years after Theodor Mommsen died, Immanuel Kant died 13 years before Theodor Mommsen was born and John F. Kennedy was born 14 years after Theodor Mommsen died.

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  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 Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  19. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  20. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  21. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  22. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  23. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  24. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  25. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  26. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  27. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  28. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
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  31. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
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