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Victor Grignard
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Victor Grignard

French chemist

Born 6 May 1871 · died 13 December 1935, aged 64
Also known as Francois Auguste Victor Grignard

Who was alive at the same time as Victor Grignard?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  3. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  4. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  5. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  6. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  7. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  8. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  9. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  10. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  11. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  12. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  13. Victor Grignard, 1871 – 1935
  14. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  15. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  16. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  17. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  18. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  19. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  20. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  21. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  22. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  23. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  24. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022

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When Victor Grignard was born, Karl Marx was 53, Vladimir Lenin was 1, Mahatma Gandhi was 1, Leo Tolstoy was 42 and Charles Darwin was 62.

When Victor Grignard died, Adolf Hitler was 46, Albert Einstein was 56, Ronald Reagan was 24, Nelson Mandela was 17 and Mahatma Gandhi was 66.

Born during Victor Grignard’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Joseph Stalin, Pablo Picasso, Winston Churchill and Charlie Chaplin.

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born about 11 years after Victor Grignard died, Abraham Lincoln died about 6 years before Victor Grignard was born, George W. Bush was born about 11 years after Victor Grignard died and Joe Biden was born about 7 years after Victor Grignard died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,271 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Victor Grignard. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1903.

  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. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  24. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  25. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  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. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  35. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  36. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  37. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  38. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  39. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  40. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  41. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  42. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  43. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  44. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  45. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  46. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  47. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  48. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  49. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  50. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  51. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  52. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  53. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  54. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  55. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  56. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  57. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  58. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  59. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  60. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  61. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  62. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  63. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  64. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  65. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  66. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  67. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  68. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  69. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  70. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  71. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  72. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  73. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  74. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  75. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  76. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  77. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  78. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  79. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  80. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  81. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  82. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  83. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  84. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  85. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  86. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  87. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  88. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  89. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  90. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  91. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  92. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  93. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  94. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  95. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  96. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  97. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  98. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  99. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  100. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  101. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  102. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  103. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  104. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  105. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  106. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  107. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  108. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  109. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  110. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  111. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  112. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  113. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  114. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  115. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  116. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  117. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  118. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  119. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  120. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  121. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  122. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  123. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  124. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  125. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  126. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  127. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  128. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  129. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  130. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  131. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  132. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  133. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  134. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  135. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  136. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  137. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  138. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  139. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  140. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  141. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  142. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  143. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  144. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  145. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  146. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  147. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  148. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  149. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  150. Hirohito 1901 – 1989