Who Was Alive

Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff

Dutch physical and organic chemist

Born 30 August 1852 · died 1 March 1911, aged 58

Who was alive at the same time as Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff?

  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. Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
  12. Vincent van Gogh
  13. Sigmund Freud
  14. Marie Curie
  15. Mahatma Gandhi
  16. Vladimir Lenin
  17. Winston Churchill
  18. Joseph Stalin
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  20. Albert Einstein
  21. Pablo Picasso
  22. Charlie Chaplin
  23. Adolf Hitler
  24. Ronald Reagan
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When Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff was born, Karl Marx was 34, Abraham Lincoln was 43, Leo Tolstoy was 23, Charles Darwin was 43 and Victor Hugo was 50.

When Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff died, Adolf Hitler was 21, Albert Einstein was 31, Ronald Reagan was under a year old, Vladimir Lenin was 40 and Mahatma Gandhi was 41.

Born during Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso.

Not quite contemporaries: Nelson Mandela was born 7 years after Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff died, John F. Kennedy was born 6 years after Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff died, Edgar Allan Poe died 3 years before Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff was born and Margaret Thatcher was born 14 years after Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff died.

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  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  5. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  6. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  7. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  8. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  9. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  10. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  11. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  12. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  13. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  14. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  15. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  16. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  17. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  18. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  20. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  21. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  22. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  23. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  24. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  25. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  26. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  27. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  28. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  29. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  30. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  31. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  32. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  33. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  34. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  35. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
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  39. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
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  57. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
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