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Abd el-Krim
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Abd el-Krim

Politician who served as President of the Republic of the Rif

Born 12 January 1882 · died 6 February 1963, aged 81

Who was alive at the same time as Abd el-Krim?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  3. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  4. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  5. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  6. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  7. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  8. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  9. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  10. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  11. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  12. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  13. Abd el-Krim, 1882 – 1963
  14. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  15. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  16. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  17. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  18. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  19. Joe Biden, born 1942
  20. Donald Trump, born 1946
  21. George W. Bush, born 1946
  22. Vladimir Putin, born 1952
  23. Michael Jackson, 1958 – 2009
  24. Barack Obama, born 1961

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When Abd el-Krim was born, Albert Einstein was 2, Karl Marx was 63, Vladimir Lenin was 11, Mahatma Gandhi was 12 and Leo Tolstoy was 53.

When Abd el-Krim died, Barack Obama was 1, Donald Trump was 16, Michael Jackson was 4, Vladimir Putin was 10 and Ronald Reagan was 52.

Born during Abd el-Krim’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela and George W. Bush.

Not quite contemporaries: Fyodor Dostoevsky died about a year before Abd el-Krim was born, Charles Dickens died about 12 years before Abd el-Krim was born, Hans Christian Andersen died about 7 years before Abd el-Krim was born and Jimmy Wales was born about 3 years after Abd el-Krim died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

3,455 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Abd el-Krim. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1923.

  1. Barack Obama born 1961
  2. Donald Trump born 1946
  3. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  4. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  5. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  6. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  7. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  8. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  9. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  10. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  11. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  12. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  13. George W. Bush born 1946
  14. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  15. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  16. Joe Biden born 1942
  17. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  18. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  19. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  20. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  21. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  22. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  23. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  24. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  25. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  26. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  27. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  28. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  29. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  30. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  31. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  32. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  33. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  34. Bill Gates born 1955
  35. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  36. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  37. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  38. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  39. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  40. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  41. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  42. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  43. Bill Clinton born 1946
  44. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  45. Angela Merkel born 1954
  46. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  47. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  48. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  49. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  50. François Hollande born 1954
  51. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  52. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  53. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  54. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  55. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  56. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  57. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  58. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  59. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  60. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  61. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  62. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  63. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  64. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  65. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  66. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  67. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  68. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  69. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  70. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  71. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  72. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  73. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  74. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  75. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  76. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  77. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  78. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  79. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  80. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  81. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  82. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  83. Madonna born 1958
  84. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  85. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  86. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  87. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  88. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  89. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  90. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  91. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  92. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  93. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  94. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  95. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  96. Xi Jinping born 1953
  97. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  98. Naruhito born 1960
  99. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  100. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  101. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  102. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  103. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  104. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  105. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  106. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  107. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  108. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  109. Bob Dylan born 1941
  110. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  111. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  112. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  113. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  114. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  115. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  116. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  117. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  118. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  119. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  120. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  121. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  122. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  123. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  124. Charles III born 1948
  125. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  126. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  127. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  128. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  129. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  130. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  131. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  132. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  133. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  134. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  135. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  136. Narendra Modi born 1950
  137. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  138. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  139. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  140. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  141. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  142. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  143. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  144. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  145. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  146. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  147. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  148. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  149. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  150. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945