Gottlob Frege
1848 – 1925 · 77 years · Jena · Europe
Philosophy: Analytic philosophy
The creator of modern logic: his Begriffsschrift (1879) introduced a formal language in which reasoning can be checked like a calculation. His work on sense and reference became a cornerstone of analytic philosophy.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Marie Curie — physicist and chemist, twice Nobel laureate, 19 years younger
- Queen Victoria — Queen of the United Kingdom, 29 years older
- Winston Churchill — Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 26 years younger
- Albert Einstein — physicist, creator of relativity, 31 years younger
- Pablo Picasso — painter and sculptor, 33 years younger
- Vincent van Gogh — painter, 5 years younger
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Leo Tolstoy — novelist, 20 years older
- Dmitri Mendeleev — chemist, creator of the periodic table, 14 years older
- Vladimir Lenin — revolutionary, head of the Soviet government, 22 years younger
- Joseph Stalin — leader of the Soviet Union, 30 years younger
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — composer, 8 years older
- Fyodor Dostoevsky — novelist, 27 years older
Middle East
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk — founder and first President of Turkey, 33 years younger
- Abdul Hamid II — the 'Red Sultan' who dissolved the first parliament, 6 years older
- Mehmed VI — last Ottoman sultan, 13 years younger
- Golda Meir — Prime Minister of Israel, 50 years younger
- Abdulmejid I — sultan of the Tanzimat reforms, 25 years older
- Mehmed V Reşad — sultan under whom the empire entered World War I, 4 years older
Africa
- Menelik II — Emperor of Ethiopia, 4 years older
- Haile Selassie — Emperor of Ethiopia, 44 years younger
- David Livingstone — explorer of Africa and missionary, 35 years older
- Yaa Asantewaa — Queen Mother of Ejisu, war leader, 8 years older
- Taytu Betul — Empress of Ethiopia, 3 years younger
- Samori Ture — founder of the Wassoulou Empire, 20 years older
Asia
- Mahatma Gandhi — leader of the Indian independence movement, 21 years younger
- Mao Zedong — Chairman of the CCP, founder of the PRC, 45 years younger
- Tokugawa Yoshinobu — last shogun, who handed power back to the emperor, 11 years older
- Rabindranath Tagore — poet and writer, Nobel laureate, 13 years younger
- Emperor Meiji — Emperor of Japan, 4 years younger
- Sun Yat-sen — revolutionary, founding father of the ROC, 18 years younger
Americas
- Thomas Edison — inventor and businessman, 1 year older
- Nikola Tesla — inventor and electrical engineer, 8 years younger
- Charlie Chaplin — comic actor and filmmaker, 41 years younger
- Abraham Lincoln — 16th President of the United States, 39 years older
- Alexander Graham Bell — inventor of the telephone, 1 year older
- Woodrow Wilson — 28th US president, World War I and the League of Nations, 8 years younger
Oceania
- Ernest Rutherford — physicist who discovered the atomic nucleus, 23 years younger
- Howard Florey — pharmacologist who made penicillin a drug, 50 years younger
- Kate Sheppard — suffragist, 1 year older
- Liliʻuokalani — Queen of Hawaii, 10 years older
- Nellie Melba — operatic soprano, 13 years younger
- Henry Parkes — Premier of New South Wales, 'Father of Federation', 33 years older
The world in their lifetime
- 1848–1849 Revolutions of 1848 — aged 0, Europe
- 1848 The Communist Manifesto — aged 0, Europe
- 1850–1864 Taiping Rebellion — aged 2, Asia
- 1851 The Australian gold rushes — aged 3, Oceania
- 1853–1854 Commodore Perry's Black Ships — aged 5, Asia
- 1853–1856 Crimean War — aged 5, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1859 Darwin's On the Origin of Species — aged 11, Europe
- 1861 Unification of Italy — aged 13, Europe
- 1861 Emancipation of the serfs in Russia — aged 13, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1861–1865 American Civil War — aged 13, Americas
- 1863 Emancipation Proclamation — aged 15, Americas
- 1864 End of the Caucasian War and the Circassian expulsion — aged 16, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1864–1870 Paraguayan War — aged 16, Americas
- 1865 Assassination of Abraham Lincoln — aged 17, Americas
- 1867 Alaska Purchase — aged 19, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1867 Canadian Confederation — aged 19, Americas
- 1868 Meiji Restoration — aged 20, Asia
- 1869 Opening of the Suez Canal — aged 21, Africa
- 1869 Tolstoy's War and Peace — aged 21, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1869 First transcontinental railroad — aged 21, Americas
- 1870–1871 Franco-Prussian War — aged 22, Europe
- 1871 Unification of Germany — aged 23, Europe
- 1871 Paris Commune — aged 23, Europe
- 1876 Invention of the telephone — aged 28, Americas
- 1879 Edison's incandescent lamp — aged 31, Americas
- 1883 Eruption of Krakatoa — aged 35, Asia
- 1885 Founding of the Indian National Congress — aged 37, Asia
- 1886 Benz's first automobile — aged 38, Europe
- 1889 Eiffel Tower — aged 41, Europe
- 1893 New Zealand women win the vote — aged 45, Oceania
- 1905 Einstein's miracle year and relativity — aged 57, Europe
- 1908 Oil struck at Masjed Soleyman — aged 60, Middle East
- 1914–1918 World War I — aged 66, Whole world
- 1914 Opening of the Panama Canal — aged 66, Americas
- 1915–1917 Armenian genocide — aged 67, Middle East
- 1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement — aged 68, Middle East
- 1917 October Revolution — aged 69, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1917–1922 Russian Civil War — aged 69, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1918–1920 Spanish flu pandemic — aged 70, Whole world
- 1919 Treaty of Versailles — aged 71, Europe