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Amedeo Avogadro

Italian scientist

Born 9 August 1776 · died 9 July 1856, aged 79

Who was alive at the same time as Amedeo Avogadro?

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When Amedeo Avogadro was born, Napoleon was 6, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 26, George Washington was 44, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 20 and Voltaire was 81.

When Amedeo Avogadro died, Karl Marx was 38, Abraham Lincoln was 47, Leo Tolstoy was 27, Charles Darwin was 47 and Victor Hugo was 54.

Born during Amedeo Avogadro’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Vincent van Gogh, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Friedrich Nietzsche.

Not quite contemporaries: Vladimir Lenin was born 14 years after Amedeo Avogadro died, Mahatma Gandhi was born 13 years after Amedeo Avogadro died, Marie Curie was born 11 years after Amedeo Avogadro died and Rabindranath Tagore was born 5 years after Amedeo Avogadro died.

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  4. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
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  7. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  8. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  9. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  10. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  11. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  12. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  13. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  14. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  15. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  16. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  17. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  18. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  19. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  20. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
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  24. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
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  27. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
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  29. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  30. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  31. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
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  33. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
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