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Abdulaziz
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Abdulaziz

Sultan of the Ottoman Empire

Born 8 February 1830 · died 4 June 1876, aged 46
Also known as Abdülaziz, Abdul-Aziz

Who was alive at the same time as Abdulaziz?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  2. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  3. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  4. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  5. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  6. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  7. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  8. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  9. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  10. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  11. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  12. Abdulaziz, 1830 – 1876
  13. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  14. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  15. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  16. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  17. Oscar Wilde, 1854 – 1900
  18. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  19. Anton Chekhov, 1860 – 1904
  20. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  21. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  22. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  23. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  24. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965

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When Abdulaziz was born, Karl Marx was 11, Abraham Lincoln was 20, Leo Tolstoy was 1, Charles Darwin was 20 and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 80.

When Abdulaziz died, Karl Marx was 58, Vladimir Lenin was 6, Mahatma Gandhi was 6, Leo Tolstoy was 47 and Charles Darwin was 67.

Born during Abdulaziz’s lifetime: Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Vincent van Gogh, Winston Churchill, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Edison, Sigmund Freud and Mark Twain.

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler was born about 13 years after Abdulaziz died, Albert Einstein was born about 3 years after Abdulaziz died, Napoleon died about 9 years before Abdulaziz was born and Joseph Stalin was born about 2 years after Abdulaziz died.

What happened in Abdulaziz’s lifetime

Where Abdulaziz’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

889 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Abdulaziz. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1853.

  1. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  2. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  3. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  4. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  5. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  6. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  7. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  8. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  9. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  10. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  11. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  12. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  13. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  14. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  15. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  16. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  17. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  18. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  19. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  20. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  21. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  22. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  23. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  24. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  25. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  26. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  27. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  28. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  29. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  30. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  31. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  32. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  33. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  34. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  35. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  36. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  37. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  38. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  39. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  40. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  41. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  42. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  43. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  44. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  45. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  46. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  47. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  48. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  49. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  50. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  51. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  52. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  53. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  54. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  55. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  56. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  57. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  58. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  59. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  60. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  61. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  62. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  63. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  64. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  65. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  66. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  67. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  68. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  69. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  70. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  71. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  72. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  73. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  74. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  75. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  76. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  77. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  78. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  79. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  80. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  81. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  82. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  83. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  84. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  85. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  86. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  87. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  88. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  89. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  90. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  91. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  92. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  93. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  94. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  95. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  96. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  97. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  98. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  99. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  100. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  101. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  102. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  103. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  104. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  105. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  106. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  107. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  108. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  109. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  110. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  111. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  112. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  113. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  114. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  115. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  116. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  117. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  118. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  119. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  120. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  121. Warren G. Harding 1865 – 1923
  122. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  123. Romain Rolland 1866 – 1944
  124. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  125. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  126. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  127. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  128. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  129. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  130. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  131. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  132. Henri Bergson 1859 – 1941
  133. Swami Vivekananda 1863 – 1902
  134. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  135. Nicholas II 1868 – 1918
  136. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  137. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  138. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  139. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  140. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  141. Knut Hamsun 1859 – 1952
  142. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  143. Luigi Pirandello 1867 – 1936
  144. Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 – 1926
  145. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  146. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  147. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  148. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  149. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  150. Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903