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Walther Nernst
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Walther Nernst

German chemist and physicist

Born 25 June 1864 · died 18 November 1941, aged 77
Also known as Walther Hermann Nernst

Who was alive at the same time as Walther Nernst?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  3. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  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. Walther Nernst, 1864 – 1941
  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 Walther Nernst was born, Karl Marx was 46, Abraham Lincoln was 55, Leo Tolstoy was 35, Charles Darwin was 55 and Victor Hugo was 62.

When Walther Nernst died, Adolf Hitler was 52, Albert Einstein was 62, Ronald Reagan was 30, Nelson Mandela was 23 and Mahatma Gandhi was 72.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born about 5 years after Walther Nernst died, Vladimir Putin was born about 11 years after Walther Nernst died, George W. Bush was born about 5 years after Walther Nernst died and Joe Biden was born about a year after Walther Nernst died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,540 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Walther Nernst. 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. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  6. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  7. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  8. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  9. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  10. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  11. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  12. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  13. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  14. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  15. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  16. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  17. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  18. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  19. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  20. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  21. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  22. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  23. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  24. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  25. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  26. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  27. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  28. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  29. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  30. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  31. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  32. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  33. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  34. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  35. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  36. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  37. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  38. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  39. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  40. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  41. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  42. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  43. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  44. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  45. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  46. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  47. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  48. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  49. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  50. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  51. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  52. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  53. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  54. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  55. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  56. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  57. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  58. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  59. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  60. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  61. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  62. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  63. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  64. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  65. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  66. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  67. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  68. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  69. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  70. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  71. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  72. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  73. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  74. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  75. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  76. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  77. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  78. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  79. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  80. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  81. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  82. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  83. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  84. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  85. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  86. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  87. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  88. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  89. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  90. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  91. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  92. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  93. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  94. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  95. Bob Dylan born 1941
  96. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  97. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  98. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  99. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  100. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  101. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  102. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  103. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  104. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  105. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  106. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  107. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  108. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  109. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  110. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  111. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  112. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  113. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  114. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  115. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  116. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  117. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  118. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  119. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  120. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  121. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  122. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  123. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  124. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  125. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  126. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  127. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  128. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  129. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  130. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  131. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  132. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  133. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  134. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  135. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  136. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  137. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  138. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  139. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  140. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  141. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  142. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  143. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  144. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  145. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  146. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  147. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  148. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  149. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  150. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007