Who Was Alive

Gabriel Lippmann

Luxembourgish physicist nationalized French

Born 16 August 1845 · died 13 July 1921, aged 75

Who was alive at the same time as Gabriel Lippmann?

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Abraham Lincoln
  3. Charles Darwin
  4. Charles Dickens
  5. Karl Marx
  6. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  7. Leo Tolstoy
  8. Mark Twain
  9. Friedrich Nietzsche
  10. Gabriel Lippmann
  11. Thomas Edison
  12. Vincent van Gogh
  13. Sigmund Freud
  14. Mahatma Gandhi
  15. Vladimir Lenin
  16. Winston Churchill
  17. Joseph Stalin
  18. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  19. Albert Einstein
  20. Pablo Picasso
  21. Charlie Chaplin
  22. Adolf Hitler
  23. Ronald Reagan
  24. Nelson Mandela
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When Gabriel Lippmann was born, Karl Marx was 27, Abraham Lincoln was 36, Leo Tolstoy was 16, Charles Darwin was 36 and Victor Hugo was 43.

When Gabriel Lippmann died, Adolf Hitler was 32, Albert Einstein was 42, Ronald Reagan was 10, Vladimir Lenin was 51 and Nelson Mandela was 2.

Born during Gabriel Lippmann’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Lenin, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin and Vincent van Gogh.

Not quite contemporaries: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died 13 years before Gabriel Lippmann was born, Elizabeth II was born 5 years after Gabriel Lippmann died, Martin Luther King Jr. was born 8 years after Gabriel Lippmann died and Alexander Pushkin died 8 years before Gabriel Lippmann was born.

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  4. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
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  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 Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  18. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  19. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
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  22. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
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