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Abdul Hamid I
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Abdul Hamid I

Sultan of the Ottoman Empire

Born 20 March 1725 · died 7 April 1789, aged 64

Who was alive at the same time as Abdul Hamid I?

  1. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  2. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  3. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  4. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  5. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  6. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  7. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  8. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  9. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  10. Abdul Hamid I, 1725 – 1789
  11. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  12. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  13. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  14. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  15. Francisco Goya, 1746 – 1828
  16. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  17. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  18. Friedrich Schiller, 1759 – 1805
  19. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  20. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  21. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1770 – 1831
  22. Jane Austen, 1775 – 1817
  23. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1777 – 1855
  24. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824

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When Abdul Hamid I was born, Isaac Newton was 82, Johann Sebastian Bach was 39, Voltaire was 30, Immanuel Kant was under a year old and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 12.

When Abdul Hamid I died, Napoleon was 19, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 39, George Washington was 57, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 33 and Immanuel Kant was 64.

Born during Abdul Hamid I’s lifetime: Napoleon, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Thomas Jefferson, Lord Byron and Jane Austen.

Not quite contemporaries: Victor Hugo was born about 13 years after Abdul Hamid I died, Alexander Pushkin was born about 10 years after Abdul Hamid I died, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz died about 9 years before Abdul Hamid I was born and Louis XIV died about 10 years before Abdul Hamid I was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

324 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Abdul Hamid I. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1757.

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  3. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  4. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  5. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  6. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  7. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  8. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  9. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  10. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  11. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  12. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  13. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  14. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  15. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  16. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  17. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  18. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  19. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  20. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  21. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  22. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  23. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  24. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  25. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  26. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  27. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  28. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  29. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  30. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  31. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  32. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  33. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  34. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  35. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  36. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  37. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  38. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  39. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  40. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  41. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  42. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  43. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  44. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  45. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  46. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  47. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  48. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  49. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  50. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  51. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  52. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  53. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  54. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  55. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  56. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  57. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  58. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  59. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  60. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  61. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  62. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  63. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  64. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  65. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  66. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  67. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  68. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  69. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  70. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  71. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  72. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  73. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  74. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  75. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  76. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  77. George III 1738 – 1820
  78. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  79. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  80. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  81. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  82. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  83. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  84. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  85. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  86. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  87. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  88. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  89. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  90. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  91. Niccolò Paganini 1782 – 1840
  92. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  93. Georg Ohm 1789 – 1854
  94. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  95. Humphry Davy 1778 – 1829
  96. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  97. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  98. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  99. Hans Christian Ørsted 1777 – 1851
  100. Pope Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  101. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  102. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
  103. Amedeo Avogadro 1776 – 1856
  104. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  105. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  106. William IV 1765 – 1837
  107. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
  108. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  109. Klemens von Metternich 1773 – 1859
  110. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  111. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  112. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  113. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  114. George IV 1762 – 1830
  115. François-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
  116. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  117. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  118. Pope Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  119. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling 1775 – 1854
  120. E. T. A. Hoffmann 1776 – 1822
  121. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  122. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  123. Germaine de Staël 1766 – 1817
  124. Thomas Young 1773 – 1829
  125. Caspar David Friedrich 1774 – 1840
  126. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  127. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  128. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  129. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  130. Louis XVIII 1755 – 1824
  131. Pope Pius VIII 1761 – 1830
  132. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  133. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  134. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746 – 1827
  135. Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor 1768 – 1835
  136. Ivan Krylov 1769 – 1844
  137. José de San Martín 1778 – 1850
  138. Jöns Jacob Berzelius 1779 – 1848
  139. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  140. Jean-Paul Marat 1743 – 1793
  141. J. M. W. Turner c. 1775 – 1851
  142. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  143. Nicolas Appert 1749 – 1841
  144. Georges Cuvier 1769 – 1832
  145. Heinrich von Kleist 1777 – 1811
  146. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  147. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  148. Peter III of Russia 1728 – 1762
  149. Abigail Adams 1744 – 1818
  150. Nikolay Karamzin 1766 – 1826