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Victor Hess
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Victor Hess

Austrian physicist

Born 24 June 1883 · died 17 December 1964, aged 81
Also known as Victor Francis Hess, Victor Franz Hess

Who was alive at the same time as Victor Hess?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  3. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  4. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  5. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  6. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  7. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  8. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  9. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  10. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  11. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  12. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  13. Victor Hess, 1883 – 1964
  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 Victor Hess was born, Albert Einstein was 4, Vladimir Lenin was 13, Mahatma Gandhi was 13, Leo Tolstoy was 54 and Joseph Stalin was 4.

When Victor Hess died, Barack Obama was 3, Donald Trump was 18, Michael Jackson was 6, Vladimir Putin was 12 and Ronald Reagan was 53.

Born during Victor Hess’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 months before Victor Hess was born, Charles Darwin died about a year before Victor Hess was born, Fyodor Dostoevsky died about 2 years before Victor Hess was born and Charles Dickens died about 13 years before Victor Hess was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

3,542 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Victor Hess. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1924.

  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. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  16. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  17. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  18. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  19. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  20. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  21. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  22. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  23. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  24. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  25. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  26. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  27. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  28. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  29. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  30. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  31. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  32. Bill Gates born 1955
  33. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  34. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  35. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  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. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  65. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  66. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  67. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  68. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  69. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  70. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  71. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  72. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  73. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  74. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  75. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  76. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  77. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  78. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  79. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  80. Madonna born 1958
  81. Kamala Harris born 1964
  82. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  83. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  84. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  85. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  86. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  87. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  88. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  89. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  90. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  91. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  92. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  93. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  94. Xi Jinping born 1953
  95. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  96. Naruhito born 1960
  97. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  98. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  99. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  100. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  101. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  102. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  103. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  104. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  105. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  106. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  107. Bob Dylan born 1941
  108. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  109. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  110. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  111. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  112. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  113. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  114. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  115. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  116. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  117. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  118. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  119. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  120. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  121. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  122. Charles III born 1948
  123. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  124. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  125. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  126. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  127. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  128. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  129. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  130. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  131. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  132. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  133. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  134. Narendra Modi born 1950
  135. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  136. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  137. Rafael Correa born 1963
  138. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  139. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  140. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  141. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  142. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  143. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  144. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  145. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  146. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  147. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  148. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  149. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  150. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946