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W. J. M. Rankine
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W. J. M. Rankine

British civil engineer

Born 5 July 1820 · died 24 December 1872, aged 52
Also known as William John Macquorn Rankine, W. J. Macquorn Rankine

Who was alive at the same time as W. J. M. Rankine?

  1. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  3. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  4. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  5. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  6. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  7. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  8. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  9. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  10. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  11. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  12. W. J. M. Rankine, 1820 – 1872
  13. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  14. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  15. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  16. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  17. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  18. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  19. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  20. Anton Chekhov, 1860 – 1904
  21. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  22. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  23. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  24. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924

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When W. J. M. Rankine was born, Karl Marx was 2, Abraham Lincoln was 11, Napoleon was 50, Charles Darwin was 11 and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 70.

When W. J. M. Rankine died, Karl Marx was 54, Vladimir Lenin was 2, Mahatma Gandhi was 3, Leo Tolstoy was 44 and Charles Darwin was 63.

Born during W. J. M. Rankine’s lifetime: Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Vincent van Gogh, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Edison and Sigmund Freud.

Not quite contemporaries: Albert Einstein was born about 7 years after W. J. M. Rankine died, Joseph Stalin was born about 6 years after W. J. M. Rankine died, Pablo Picasso was born about 9 years after W. J. M. Rankine died and Winston Churchill was born about 2 years after W. J. M. Rankine died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

871 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as W. J. M. Rankine. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1846.

  1. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  2. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  3. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  4. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  5. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  6. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  7. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  8. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  9. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  10. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  11. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  12. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  13. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  14. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  15. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  16. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  17. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  18. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  19. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  20. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  21. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  22. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  23. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  24. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  25. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  26. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  27. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  28. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  29. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  30. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  31. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  32. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  33. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  34. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  35. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  36. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  37. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  38. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  39. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  40. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  41. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  42. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  43. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  44. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  45. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  46. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  47. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  48. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  49. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  50. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  51. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  52. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  53. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  54. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  55. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  56. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  57. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  58. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  59. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  60. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  61. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  62. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  63. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  64. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  65. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  66. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  67. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  68. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  69. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  70. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  71. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  72. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  73. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  74. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  75. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  76. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  77. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  78. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  79. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  80. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  81. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  82. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  83. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  84. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  85. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  86. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  87. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  88. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  89. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  90. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  91. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  92. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  93. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  94. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  95. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  96. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  97. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  98. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  99. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  100. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  101. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  102. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  103. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  104. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  105. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  106. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  107. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  108. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  109. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  110. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  111. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  112. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  113. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  114. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  115. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  116. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  117. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  118. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  119. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  120. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  121. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  122. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  123. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  124. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  125. Warren G. Harding 1865 – 1923
  126. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  127. Romain Rolland 1866 – 1944
  128. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  129. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  130. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  131. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  132. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  133. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  134. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  135. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  136. Henri Bergson 1859 – 1941
  137. Swami Vivekananda 1863 – 1902
  138. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  139. Nicholas II 1868 – 1918
  140. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  141. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  142. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  143. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  144. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  145. Knut Hamsun 1859 – 1952
  146. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  147. Luigi Pirandello 1867 – 1936
  148. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  149. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  150. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851