Who Was Alive

Bernhard Riemann

German mathematician

Born 17 September 1826 · died 20 July 1866, aged 39

Who was alive at the same time as Bernhard Riemann?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  2. Ludwig van Beethoven
  3. Alexander Pushkin
  4. Victor Hugo
  5. Hans Christian Andersen
  6. Edgar Allan Poe
  7. Abraham Lincoln
  8. Charles Darwin
  9. Charles Dickens
  10. Otto von Bismarck
  11. Karl Marx
  12. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  13. Louis Pasteur
  14. Bernhard Riemann
  15. Leo Tolstoy
  16. Mark Twain
  17. Friedrich Nietzsche
  18. Thomas Edison
  19. Vincent van Gogh
  20. Oscar Wilde
  21. Sigmund Freud
  22. Nikola Tesla
  23. Anton Chekhov
  24. Rabindranath Tagore
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When Bernhard Riemann was born, Karl Marx was 8, Abraham Lincoln was 17, Charles Darwin was 17, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 77 and Victor Hugo was 24.

When Bernhard Riemann died, Karl Marx was 48, Leo Tolstoy was 37, Charles Darwin was 57, Victor Hugo was 64 and Vincent van Gogh was 13.

Born during Bernhard Riemann’s lifetime: Leo Tolstoy, Vincent van Gogh, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Edison, Mark Twain, Sigmund Freud, Rabindranath Tagore and Anton Chekhov.

Not quite contemporaries: Albert Einstein was born 13 years after Bernhard Riemann died, Vladimir Lenin was born 4 years after Bernhard Riemann died, Napoleon died 5 years before Bernhard Riemann was born and Mahatma Gandhi was born 3 years after Bernhard Riemann died.

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  2. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  3. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  4. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  5. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  6. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  7. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  8. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  9. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  10. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  11. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  12. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  13. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  14. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  15. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  16. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  17. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  18. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  19. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  20. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  21. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  22. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  23. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  24. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  25. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  26. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  27. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  28. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  29. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  30. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  31. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
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  33. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
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