Who Was Alive

Max von Laue

German physicist, Nobel laureate and anti-Nazi

Born 9 October 1879 · died 24 April 1960, aged 80

Who was alive at the same time as Max von Laue?

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Charles Darwin
  3. Karl Marx
  4. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  5. Leo Tolstoy
  6. Friedrich Nietzsche
  7. Vincent van Gogh
  8. Mahatma Gandhi
  9. Vladimir Lenin
  10. Winston Churchill
  11. Joseph Stalin
  12. Albert Einstein
  13. Max von Laue
  14. Pablo Picasso
  15. Charlie Chaplin
  16. Adolf Hitler
  17. Ronald Reagan
  18. Nelson Mandela
  19. Elizabeth II
  20. Joe Biden
  21. Donald Trump
  22. George W. Bush
  23. Vladimir Putin
  24. Michael Jackson
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When Max von Laue was born, Albert Einstein was under a year old, Karl Marx was 61, Vladimir Lenin was 9, Mahatma Gandhi was 10 and Leo Tolstoy was 51.

When Max von Laue died, Donald Trump was 13, Michael Jackson was 1, Vladimir Putin was 7, Ronald Reagan was 49 and Nelson Mandela was 41.

Born during Max von Laue’s lifetime: Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush and Joe Biden.

Not quite contemporaries: Barack Obama was born about a year after Max von Laue died, Abraham Lincoln died 14 years before Max von Laue was born, Charles Dickens died 9 years before Max von Laue was born and Hans Christian Andersen died 4 years before Max von Laue was born.

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  3. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
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  7. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  8. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  9. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  10. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  11. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  12. George W. Bush born 1946
  13. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  14. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  15. Joe Biden born 1942
  16. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  17. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  18. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  19. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  20. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  21. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  22. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  23. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  24. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
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  26. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
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  28. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  29. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
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