Who Was Alive

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

British physicist and engineer

Born 26 June 1825 · died 17 December 1907, aged 82

Who was alive at the same time as William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  2. Ludwig van Beethoven
  3. Victor Hugo
  4. Abraham Lincoln
  5. Charles Darwin
  6. Charles Dickens
  7. Karl Marx
  8. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  9. William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
  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 William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin was born, Karl Marx was 7, Abraham Lincoln was 16, Charles Darwin was 16, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 75 and Victor Hugo was 23.

When William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin died, Adolf Hitler was 18, Albert Einstein was 28, Vladimir Lenin was 37, Mahatma Gandhi was 38 and Leo Tolstoy was 79.

Born during William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin’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 4 years after William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin died, Nelson Mandela was born 11 years after William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin died, Napoleon died 4 years before William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin was born and John F. Kennedy was born 10 years after William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin died.

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  7. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
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  15. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
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