Who Was Alive

Heinrich Hertz

German physicist

Born 22 February 1857 · died 1 January 1894, aged 36

Who was alive at the same time as Heinrich Hertz?

  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. Thomas Edison
  11. Vincent van Gogh
  12. Sigmund Freud
  13. Heinrich Hertz
  14. Rabindranath Tagore
  15. Marie Curie
  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 Heinrich Hertz was born, Karl Marx was 38, Abraham Lincoln was 48, Leo Tolstoy was 28, Charles Darwin was 48 and Victor Hugo was 54.

When Heinrich Hertz died, Adolf Hitler was 4, Albert Einstein was 14, Vladimir Lenin was 23, Mahatma Gandhi was 24 and Leo Tolstoy was 65.

Born during Heinrich Hertz’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, Pablo Picasso, Winston Churchill and Charlie Chaplin.

Not quite contemporaries: Salvador Dalí was born 10 years after Heinrich Hertz died, Edgar Allan Poe died 8 years before Heinrich Hertz was born, Walt Disney was born 7 years after Heinrich Hertz died and George Orwell was born 9 years after Heinrich Hertz died.

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  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  5. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  6. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  7. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  8. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  9. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  10. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  11. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  12. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  13. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  14. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  15. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  16. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  17. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  18. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  19. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  21. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  22. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  23. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  24. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  25. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  26. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  27. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  28. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  29. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  30. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  31. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  32. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  33. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  34. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  35. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  36. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  37. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  38. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  39. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  40. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  41. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  42. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  43. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
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  46. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  47. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
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  51. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  52. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  53. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  54. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  55. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  56. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  57. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  58. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  59. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  60. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  61. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  62. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
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