Who Was Alive

Hans Christian Ørsted

Danish physicist and chemist

Born 14 August 1777 · died 9 March 1851, aged 73

Who was alive at the same time as Hans Christian Ørsted?

  1. Voltaire
  2. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  3. Adam Smith
  4. Immanuel Kant
  5. George Washington
  6. Thomas Jefferson
  7. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  8. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  9. Ludwig van Beethoven
  10. Napoleon
  11. Hans Christian Ørsted
  12. Alexander Pushkin
  13. Victor Hugo
  14. Hans Christian Andersen
  15. Edgar Allan Poe
  16. Abraham Lincoln
  17. Charles Darwin
  18. Charles Dickens
  19. Karl Marx
  20. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  21. Leo Tolstoy
  22. Mark Twain
  23. Friedrich Nietzsche
  24. Thomas Edison
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When Hans Christian Ørsted was born, Napoleon was 7, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 27, George Washington was 45, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 21 and Voltaire was 82.

When Hans Christian Ørsted died, Karl Marx was 32, Abraham Lincoln was 42, Leo Tolstoy was 22, Charles Darwin was 42 and Victor Hugo was 49.

Born during Hans Christian Ørsted’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche and Thomas Edison.

Not quite contemporaries: Vincent van Gogh was born 2 years after Hans Christian Ørsted died, Sigmund Freud was born 5 years after Hans Christian Ørsted died, Rabindranath Tagore was born 10 years after Hans Christian Ørsted died and Anton Chekhov was born 9 years after Hans Christian Ørsted died.

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  4. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  5. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  6. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  7. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  8. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  9. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  10. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  11. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  12. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  13. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  14. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  15. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  16. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  17. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  18. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
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  20. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  21. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  22. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
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  24. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
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