Who Was Alive

Florence Nightingale

English social reformer, statistician, and founder of modern nursing

Born 12 May 1820 · died 13 August 1910, aged 90

Who was alive at the same time as Florence Nightingale?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  2. Ludwig van Beethoven
  3. Napoleon
  4. Victor Hugo
  5. Abraham Lincoln
  6. Charles Darwin
  7. Karl Marx
  8. Florence Nightingale
  9. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  10. Leo Tolstoy
  11. Mark Twain
  12. Friedrich Nietzsche
  13. Thomas Edison
  14. Vincent van Gogh
  15. Sigmund Freud
  16. Mahatma Gandhi
  17. Vladimir Lenin
  18. Winston Churchill
  19. Joseph Stalin
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  21. Albert Einstein
  22. Pablo Picasso
  23. Charlie Chaplin
  24. Adolf Hitler
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When Florence Nightingale 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 Florence Nightingale died, Adolf Hitler was 21, Albert Einstein was 31, Vladimir Lenin was 40, Mahatma Gandhi was 40 and Leo Tolstoy was 81.

Born during Florence Nightingale’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso.

Not quite contemporaries: Ronald Reagan was born about a year after Florence Nightingale died, Nelson Mandela was born 8 years after Florence Nightingale died, John F. Kennedy was born 7 years after Florence Nightingale died and John Paul II was born 10 years after Florence Nightingale died.

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  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  5. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  6. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  7. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  8. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  9. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  10. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  11. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  12. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  13. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  14. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  15. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  16. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  17. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  18. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  19. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  20. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  21. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  22. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  23. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  24. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  25. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  26. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  27. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  28. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  29. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  30. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  31. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  32. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  33. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  34. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  35. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  36. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  37. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  38. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  39. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  40. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  41. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  42. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  43. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  44. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  45. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  46. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  47. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  48. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  49. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  50. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  51. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  52. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  53. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  54. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  55. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  56. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  57. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  58. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  59. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  60. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  61. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  62. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  63. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  64. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  65. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  66. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  67. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  68. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  69. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  70. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  71. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  72. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  73. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  74. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  75. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  76. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  77. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  78. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  79. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  80. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  81. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  82. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  83. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  84. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  85. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  86. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  87. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  88. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  89. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  90. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  91. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  92. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  93. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  94. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  95. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  96. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  97. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  98. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  99. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  100. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  101. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  102. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  103. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  104. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  105. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  106. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  107. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  108. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  109. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  110. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  111. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  112. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  113. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  114. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  115. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  116. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  117. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  118. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  119. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  120. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  121. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  122. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  123. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  124. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  125. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  126. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  127. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  128. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  129. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  130. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  131. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  132. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  133. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  134. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  135. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  136. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  137. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  138. Nikolai Gogol 1808–1809 – 1851–1852
  139. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  140. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  141. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  142. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  143. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  144. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  145. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  146. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  147. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  148. William Butler Yeats 1865 – 1939
  149. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
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