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Theodore William Richards
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Theodore William Richards

American chemist

Born 31 January 1868 · died 2 April 1928, aged 60
Also known as Theodore Richards

Who was alive at the same time as Theodore William Richards?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  3. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  4. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  5. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  6. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  7. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  8. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  9. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  10. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  11. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  12. Theodore William Richards, 1868 – 1928
  13. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  14. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  15. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  16. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  17. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  18. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  19. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  20. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  21. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  22. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  23. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  24. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022

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When Theodore William Richards was born, Karl Marx was 49, Leo Tolstoy was 39, Charles Darwin was 58, Victor Hugo was 65 and Vincent van Gogh was 14.

When Theodore William Richards died, Adolf Hitler was 38, Albert Einstein was 49, Ronald Reagan was 17, Nelson Mandela was 9 and Mahatma Gandhi was 58.

Born during Theodore William Richards’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Lenin, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin and Pablo Picasso.

Not quite contemporaries: Abraham Lincoln died about 3 years before Theodore William Richards was born, Joe Biden was born about 14 years after Theodore William Richards died, Martin Luther King Jr. was born about a year after Theodore William Richards died and Pope Francis was born about 8 years after Theodore William Richards died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,990 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Theodore William Richards. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1898.

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  5. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  6. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  7. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  8. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  9. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  10. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  11. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  12. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  13. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  14. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  15. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  16. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  17. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  18. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  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. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  25. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  26. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  27. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  28. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  29. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  30. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  31. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  32. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  33. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  34. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  35. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  36. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  37. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  38. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  39. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  40. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  41. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  42. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  43. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  44. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  45. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  46. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  47. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  48. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  49. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  50. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  51. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  52. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  53. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  54. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  55. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  56. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  57. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  58. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  59. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  60. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  61. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  62. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  63. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  64. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  65. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  66. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  67. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  68. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  69. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  70. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  71. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  72. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  73. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  74. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  75. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  76. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  77. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  78. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  79. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  80. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  81. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  82. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  83. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  84. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  85. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  86. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  87. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  88. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  89. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  90. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  91. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  92. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  93. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  94. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  95. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  96. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  97. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  98. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  99. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  100. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  101. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  102. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  103. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  104. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  105. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  106. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  107. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  108. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  109. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  110. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  111. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  112. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  113. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  114. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  115. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  116. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  117. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  118. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  119. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  120. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  121. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  122. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  123. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  124. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  125. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  126. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  127. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  128. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  129. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  130. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  131. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  132. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  133. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  134. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  135. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  136. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  137. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  138. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  139. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  140. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  141. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  142. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  143. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  144. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  145. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  146. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  147. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  148. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  149. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  150. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969