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Abdullah I of Jordan
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Abdullah I of Jordan

King of Jordan

Born 1882 · died 1951, aged 68 or 69
Also known as King Abdullah I, King Abdullah, 'Abdallah I

Who was alive at the same time as Abdullah I of Jordan?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  3. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  4. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  5. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  6. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  7. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  8. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  9. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  10. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  11. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  12. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  13. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  14. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  15. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  16. Abdullah I of Jordan, 1882 – 1951
  17. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  18. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  19. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  20. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  21. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  22. Joe Biden, born 1942
  23. Donald Trump, born 1946
  24. George W. Bush, born 1946

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When Abdullah I of Jordan was born, Albert Einstein was 2 or 3, Karl Marx was 63 or 64, Vladimir Lenin was 11 or 12, Mahatma Gandhi was 12 or 13 and Leo Tolstoy was 53 or 54.

When Abdullah I of Jordan died, Donald Trump was 4 or 5, Albert Einstein was 71 or 72, Ronald Reagan was 39 or 40, Nelson Mandela was 32 or 33 and George W. Bush was 4 or 5.

Born during Abdullah I of Jordan’s lifetime: Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Charlie Chaplin and Elizabeth II.

Not quite contemporaries: Barack Obama was born about 10 years after Abdullah I of Jordan died, Michael Jackson was born about 7 years after Abdullah I of Jordan died, Vladimir Putin was born about a year after Abdullah I of Jordan died and Fyodor Dostoevsky died about a year before Abdullah I of Jordan was born.

What happened in Abdullah I of Jordan’s lifetime

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,895 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Abdullah I of Jordan. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1917.

  1. Donald Trump born 1946
  2. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  3. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  4. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  5. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  6. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  7. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  8. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  9. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  10. George W. Bush born 1946
  11. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  12. Joe Biden born 1942
  13. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  14. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  15. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  16. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  17. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  18. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  19. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  20. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  21. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  22. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  23. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  24. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  25. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  26. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  27. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  28. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  29. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  30. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  31. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  32. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  33. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  34. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  35. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  36. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  37. Bill Clinton born 1946
  38. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  39. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  40. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  41. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  42. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  43. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  44. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  45. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  46. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  47. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  48. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  49. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  50. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  51. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  52. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  53. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  54. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  55. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  56. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  57. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  58. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  59. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  60. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  61. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  62. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  63. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  64. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  65. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  66. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  67. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  68. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  69. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  70. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  71. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  72. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  73. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  74. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  75. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  76. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  77. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  78. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  79. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  80. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  81. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  82. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  83. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  84. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  85. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  86. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  87. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  88. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  89. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  90. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  91. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  92. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  93. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  94. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  95. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  96. Bob Dylan born 1941
  97. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  98. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  99. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  100. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  101. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  102. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  103. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  104. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  105. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  106. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  107. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  108. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  109. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  110. Charles III born 1948
  111. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  112. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  113. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  114. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  115. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  116. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  117. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  118. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  119. Narendra Modi born 1950
  120. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  121. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  122. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  123. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  124. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  125. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  126. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  127. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  128. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  129. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  130. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  131. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  132. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  133. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  134. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  135. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  136. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  137. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  138. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  139. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  140. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  141. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  142. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  143. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  144. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  145. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  146. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  147. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  148. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  149. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  150. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993