Who Was Alive

Svante August Arrhenius

Swedish astronomer, chemist and physicist

Born 19 February 1859 · died 2 October 1927, aged 68

Who was alive at the same time as Svante August Arrhenius?

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Abraham Lincoln
  3. Charles Darwin
  4. Karl Marx
  5. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  6. Leo Tolstoy
  7. Mark Twain
  8. Friedrich Nietzsche
  9. Thomas Edison
  10. Vincent van Gogh
  11. Sigmund Freud
  12. Svante August Arrhenius
  13. Mahatma Gandhi
  14. Vladimir Lenin
  15. Winston Churchill
  16. Joseph Stalin
  17. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  18. Albert Einstein
  19. Pablo Picasso
  20. Charlie Chaplin
  21. Adolf Hitler
  22. Ronald Reagan
  23. Nelson Mandela
  24. Elizabeth II
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When Svante August Arrhenius was born, Karl Marx was 40, Abraham Lincoln was 50, Leo Tolstoy was 30, Charles Darwin was 50 and Victor Hugo was 56.

When Svante August Arrhenius died, Adolf Hitler was 38, Albert Einstein was 48, Ronald Reagan was 16, Nelson Mandela was 9 and Mahatma Gandhi was 58.

Born during Svante August Arrhenius’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Lenin, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin and Pablo Picasso.

Not quite contemporaries: Martin Luther King Jr. was born 2 years after Svante August Arrhenius died, Pope Francis was born 9 years after Svante August Arrhenius died, Che Guevara was born about a year after Svante August Arrhenius died and Edgar Allan Poe died 10 years before Svante August Arrhenius was born.

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  4. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
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  6. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  7. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  8. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  9. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  10. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  11. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  12. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  13. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  14. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  15. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  16. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  17. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  18. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  19. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  20. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
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  22. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
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  25. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
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